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Barack Obama, who once declared himself America's first Pacific president, arrives in Asia for his last official visit Saturday with the trade pact that's a pillar of his strategic pivot to the region on life support and China increasingly determined to challenge US power.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has become the stuff of legend. This hotspot of marine waste, created by the spiral currents of the North Pacific Gyre, has been described as a floating trash island the size of Russia.

These sculptures started their life as everyday items: bottles, bags, boxes that were at some point thrown away and became marine pollution.

Protesters packed the streets of Venezuela's capital Thursday, demanding a recall vote to remove President Nicolas Maduro from power.

Dramatic scenes unfolded overnight on the streets of Gabon's capital city of Libreville, as protesters clashed with police following the announcement of the presidential election results.

In a delirious attempt to divert attention from the fact that he is perhaps the most unpopular President in the history of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto invited Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to visit him at Los Pinos.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's visit to Nigeria, his first to sub-Saharan Africa, has put the country's tech businesses firmly in the world's spotlight.

Melania Trump has filed a $150 million lawsuit against The Daily Mail and Tarpley, a U.S.-based blog, claiming that the two outlets made false and defamatory statements about her involvement in an escort service.

The US and other members of the international community granted Iran exemptions to its requirements under the agreement that sought to curb its nuclear program, according to a new report by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security.

Chemical weapons-related materials developed during Moammar Gadhafi's decades-long rule were removed from Libya as part of an international maritime operation, US officials said Thursday.

Maybe prison wouldn't be so bad if all the cells were like this.

As world powers struggle to fight ISIS, other terror groups are trying to make their mark -- one deadly attack at a time.

Pope Francis proposed on Thursday that caring for the environment be added to the traditional seven works of mercy that Christians are called to perform, which include feeding the hungry and sheltering the homeless.

We've all seen the gut-wrenching photo of the 5-year-old Syrian child -- -- pulled out of the rubble in Aleppo and placed in an ambulance, his young face reflecting an obliviousness to the misery around him and the dismal future ahead.

It's not every day that you get to drop into the Kremlin and have Russian President Vladimir Putin as your host. But that's exactly what happened to schoolboys from Britain's prestigious Eton College.