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| 5 hours ago | High-fashion hijabs | | Muslim headscarves might not be the most obvious garments for a high fashion makeover, but that's just what two Belgian women have given them. And now, their designs are selling from Paris to Dubai. |
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| 5 hours ago | China's tycoons shun Gates-Buffett | | In the world of business, who in their right mind would turn down the opportunity to dine with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett? Chinese tycoons, apparently. |
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| 5 hours ago | 16 killed in Russia car explosion | | A car exploded in the Russian republic of North Ossetia-Alania on Thursday, killing at least 16 people, government officials said. |
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| 5 hours ago | It's a great day to wed in Taiwan | | Thursday is the ninth day of the ninth month of the 99th year since the founding of Taiwan. That made it the perfect day for 163 couples to get married simultaneously in Taipei. |
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| 8 hours ago | Miners watch soccer match | | The 33 workers trapped in a Chilean mine got a rare treat Tuesday night: they got to watch their national soccer team compete against Ukraine in the European Cup live via a small projector wired down to their safety chamber on a fiber optic cable. |
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| 8 hours ago | Piers Morgan to join CNN | | British TV host Piers Morgan said taking over for retiring Larry King is like replacing Frank Sinatra's Las Vegas show. |
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| 8 hours ago | Mass wedding in Taiwan | | "Love 99, Happiness forever" was the theme as 163 couples married in Taiwan's capital on Thursday. |
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| 8 hours ago | Philippines says police may have shot some hostages | | Philippine authorities acknowledged for the first time Thursday that some of the tourists taken hostage in a bus standoff last month may have been shot by police in the bungled rescue operation. |
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| 8 hours ago | Zakaria: Did the U.S. overreact to 9/11? | | The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, prompted the U.S. to take sensible security measures and launch a justified counterattack against al Qaeda, says analyst Fareed Zakaria. But he says they also led to an overreaction that continues today. |
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| 8 hours ago | 15 killed in Russia car explosion | | A car exploded in the Russian republic of North Ossetia-Alania on Thursday, killing at least 15 people, government officials said. |
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| Today | China to boost surveillance of superbug | | China's capital will step up surveillance of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, in response to a superbug that first emerged in South Asia and is spreading globally, state media said. |
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| 20 hours ago | U.N.: Congo sex attacks exceed 500 | | U.N. officials estimated more than 500 rapes and other sexual attacks in eastern Congo in July and August, more than double the previous estimate. |
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| 20 hours ago | Miners watch Chile-Ukraine soccer match | | The 33 workers trapped in a Chilean mine got a rare treat Tuesday night: they got to watch their national soccer team compete against Ukraine in the European Cup live via a small projector wired down to their safety chamber on a fiber optic cable. |
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| 20 hours ago | Castro casts doubt on 'Cuban model' | | Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that the "Cuban model" no longer works, an apparent admission of failings in the communist economic model introduced by his revolution more than 50 years ago. |
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| 20 hours ago | Jolie: Keep hope alive in Pakistan | | Amid the overwhelming flood disaster in Pakistan, the world has "no choice but to be optimistic and to have hope" that things can improve there, actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie told CNN Wednesday. FULL STORY l Dr. Sanjay Gupta interviews Jolie l Gupta reflects on covering the disaster |
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| Yesterday | Giant rats sniff out land mines | | Niko Mushi hated rats, as did most people in his village near Tanzania's Mt. Kilimanjaro -- until he learned the critters had a nose for land mines. |
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| Yesterday | Asteroids buzzing Earth | | A small asteroid passed within the moon's distance from the Earth on Wednesday morning, and another will do likewise later in the day, space watchers say. |
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| Yesterday | Threat note found on Thai plane bound for U.S. | | Authorities have begun an investigation after a threatening message was found scrawled on the lavatory mirror of a Thai Airways plane, the Transportation Security Administration said. |
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| Yesterday | Somali pleads guilty in piracy plot | | A Somali suspect pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to commit piracy in the November 2008 takeover of a merchant ship in the Gulf of Aden, the U.S. attorney's office for the District of Columbia announced. |
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| Yesterday | Jolie: Keep hope alive in Pakistan | | Amid the overwhelming flood disaster in Pakistan, the world has "no choice but to be optimistic and to have hope" that things can improve there, actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie told CNN Wednesday. FULL STORY l Dr. Sanjay Gupta interviews Jolie l Gupta reflects on covering the disaster |
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| Yesterday | Iran: Woman's stoning sentence on hold | | Iran has put the stoning sentence of a woman convicted of adultery and murder "on hold,"Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told state-run Press TV on Wednesday. |
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