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A boat carrying 600 migrants has capsized off the Egyptian coast near Kafr al-Sheikh, the Egyptian military said Wednesday.

Hours on end confined to two feet square, teetering atop a box amid screams, shouts and sometimes violence. And you might not even walk away with anything usable. It's no life, working in the photographer's pit.

A US military aircraft has crashed off the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, according to a Japanese coast guard official.

Sacramento mayor and former NBA star Kevin Johnson was hit in the face with a pie Wednesday night.

A new genomic study has revealed that Aboriginal Australians are the oldest known civilization on Earth, with ancestries stretching back roughly 75,000 years.

North Korea's nuclear ambitions are one of the biggest threats to international peace and security, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned Wednesday.

Images and sounds of another American city engulfed by unrest in response to a police killing.

All eyes in the tightly contested US presidential election are on the undecided voter. But what exactly does an "undecided" voter in 2016 look like?

For the past three years, a one day event in South Africa has drawn in thousands of shoe lovers in pursuit of one thing: the perfect sneakers.

Secretary of State John Kerry launched a blistering attack on Russia Wednesday for its actions in Syria, pointing to the bombing of a UN aid convoy that left more than 20 dead and its inability to stop continued Syrian air attacks.

Could India and Pakistan really go to war? It almost seems an absurd question to ask.

Officers did not find a book where Keith Lamont Scott was shot Tuesday, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said Wednesday.

Thought superyachts couldn't get any more extravagant? Think again. Andy Waugh's Epiphany has a 1,000-1 chance of being built, says the British designer.

The person who was killed at a violent protest in Charlotte was shot by another civilian, the North Carolina city tweeted on its official account. Charlotte police did not fire the shot, the tweet said.

Over the past decade, the development of Chinese design has been fast-paced, industrious and government-approved. Arguably the output has been of varying quality, given the huge quantity of practices the discipline subsumes.

Global leaders met at the United Nationals General Assembly in New York Wednesday to address what experts are calling one of the biggest threats to global health: antimicrobial resistance.

Michigan Democratic Rep. Sander Levin called on the IRS Wednesday to audit The Trump Foundation, following a report that the billionaire used charity money to pay off legal settlements.

Check out these lighthearted Oktoberfest photos from the past century.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump offered vastly different proposals Wednesday to change police practices following fatal shootings of African-American men in Oklahoma and North Carolina.

Even wax Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have split. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on the Brangelina blues.