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North and South Korea held talks Friday on resuming reunions for families separated for decades by the 1950-53 Korean War as they seek to build on a recent easing of cross-border tensions.

• 23 августа 2013, 11:16

President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Caroline Kennedy to become US ambassador to Japan, in the biggest foray into public service for John F. Kennedy's sole surviving child.

• 25 июля 2013, 14:01

First cousins who marry run twice the risk of having a child with genetic abnormalities, according to the findings of a study in the English city of Bradford, published Friday in The Lancet.

• 04 июля 2013, 19:39

Australian police Wednesday described as "depraved" the case of a six-year-old boy obtained by his gay male parents via a surrogate and then sexually abused by them and others.

• 03 июля 2013, 17:03

Relatives of Hugo Chavez have taken powerful posts since he died three months ago, helping keep the late Venezuelan leader's mythical image alive.

• 26 июня 2013, 14:19

Six-year-old Keke looks silently from a bare living room at her closest companion: a grandmother who resents having to raise her.

• 16 июня 2013, 15:33

Kazakhstan President’s youngest grandson Aisultan is getting ready for the wedding ceremony.

• 14 мая 2013, 14:37

In front of 300 villagers, Halima's father shot her in the head, stomach and waist -- a public execution overseen by local religious leaders in Afghanistan to punish her for an alleged affair.

• 03 мая 2013, 17:03

Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray was in dire financial straits when he was hired to care for the US superstar.

• 03 мая 2013, 10:04

Tired but smiling, a French family of seven arrived in Paris early on Saturday, welcomed by relatives and French President Francois Hollande.

• 20 апреля 2013, 13:34

Nearly 330 million abortions have been performed in China in the 40 years since it first implemented measures to limit population growth in the world's most populous nation.

• 17 марта 2013, 14:54

Late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was laid to rest at a military museum on Friday after an emotional final journey through the streets of Caracas watched by hundreds of thousands.

• 16 марта 2013, 14:16

Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart offered her estranged daughter Hope Aus$300 million (US$306 million) in a bid to end a sordid feud over the family fortune.

• 14 марта 2013, 17:29

A 27-y.o. citizen of Gabon stabbed her husband, a 53-y.o. citizen of Great Britain during a family dispute in Atyrau in western Kazakhstan.

• 06 марта 2013, 21:33

A kidnapped French family of seven has likely been separated into two groups by their abductors, France said Thursday, as Nigerian security forces combed restive border areas to find them.

• 22 февраля 2013, 15:08

Kidnappers who seized seven members of a French family, including four young children, in Cameroon, have taken them across the border into Nigeria.

• 20 февраля 2013, 16:10

A French father denied access to his son came back down to earth Monday after a four-day protest perched on a giant crane that sparked reactions from the prime minister and his justice minister.

• 19 февраля 2013, 11:45

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-Hee won a court ruling Friday against demands from his siblings to hand over billions of dollars in shares in various Samsung Group companies.

• 02 февраля 2013, 10:56

An abused 12-year-old boy who shot his Neo-Nazi father dead while he was sleeping at their California home was found guilty Monday of second degree murder.

• 16 января 2013, 13:24

The family of a murdered Indian gang-rape victim will not rest until her killers are hanged, her brother said in an interview published on Monday.

• 01 января 2013, 12:36