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9 rules for surviving Oktoberfest

I remember a chalk line drawn on blacktop by a group of kids at recess when I was young. The message was clear: This is the line you do not cross. If you stepped over it, you would face the wrath of those kids in whatever game we were playing. Now turn that line crimson and color it toxic. This is the adult version of "do not cross."

A 12-year-old Arkansas girl is speaking after surviving infection from a deadly brain-eating amoeba.

A 12-year-old Arkansas girl is speaking after surviving infection from a deadly brain-eating amoeba.

Think you can handle a 340-meter-high, open-air glass walkway?

Nobody ages backward.

Home surveillance video shows a woman stealing an Amazon package from an Arizona man's home. Erin Burnett reports.

Anyone can stick up a shack on the sand, stock it with beers and call it a beach bar.

Indoor basketball courts, island-sized balconies and bathrooms that belong in museums -- America's got some crazy indulgent hotel suites with price tags to match.

Yosemite National Park has almost everything a nature lover could desire: Glorious waterfalls, spectacular meadows and valleys, groves of ancient sequoias and the wildlife that call the park home.

Erin Burnett talks to Melissa Moore, daughter of a serial killer about being a child of a notorious criminal.

Tired of Rome? Done Milan? Kids start crying whenever you suggest another EM Forster tour of Florence?

A Red Sox star used blue language, but he won't be fined any green for his emotional reaction the day after police captured marathon bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev.

St Patrick's Day is upon us again. Time for the drinking world to pull on an unamusing leprechaun hat and order pints of the black stuff in a fake Irish accent.

Sheryl Sandberg is a role model, say her defenders.

A local Chinese politician who was late for his flight had a meltdown at an airport. CNN's David McKenzie explains.

Before we had "16 and Pregnant," push-up bras for tweens or mandatory sex education, girls like Donna Liska-Johnson learned about the birds and the bees from author Judy Blume.

If you've never been to Mardi Gras, you may think it's all about beads for boobs.

Hankering to see some happy feet? Antarctica is far from your only option.

Robert Stokely fired up his computer and began a journey to a place an ocean and continent away, to a land of parched earth and dusty brush not far from the banks of the Euphrates.