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German police said at least 12 people were dead and at least 48 people were injured. Police said a possible suspect was in custody.

Andrei Karlov was shot Monday evening as he delivered a speech at an exhibition opening in Turkey's capital city. A Turkish minister identified the gunman as a 22-year-old Turkish riot police officer.

A grenade-shaped trailer hitch, a replica exploding vest, and dead seahorses in a bottle are a few of the strangest items that Transportation Security Administration officers encountered this year.

Coral in an area in the Atlantic Ocean stretching from Connecticut to Virginia has been protected from deep-sea commercial fishing gear, by a new rule issued this week.

The Democratic Republic of Congo ordered telecom companies to block social media sites ahead of protests planned on Monday, marking the end of the president's final constitutionally sanctioned term.

By tickling rats and then photographing them, researchers found that a rat's ears are more pinkish and are positioned at a more relaxed angle when it is experiencing positive emotions.

NASA has just launched eight micro-satellites that will allow scientists to make better predictions about hurricanes. They deployed from a rocket that was launched from an aircraft.

The cause of the crash that killed 66 people in May has been a mystery, and no group has claimed responsibility for bringing down the plane. The pilot never issued a distress call.

When Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, many of the region's most precious artifacts were on loan to a Dutch museum. A court has now ruled that the objects must go to Ukraine, not Crimea.

Before using your food processor for holiday treats in the next few weeks, you might want to make sure the blade hasn't been recalled for dozens of mouth lacerations.

Typically, when insect females evolve to become larger than males, it's in order to produce more offspring. But female orchid mantises evolved to look like flowers for a sinister reason: to hunt prey.

A Sicily court has convicted the ship's captain and another man over the wreck involving hundreds of migrants in April 2015. It was one of the deadliest migrant disasters in the Mediterranean.

Security forces descended on the country's election commission headquarters, ratcheting up tension in the country as regional leaders arrive to try and persuade the current president to quit power.

A federal jury has sentenced the ex-lawmaker for 23 counts of conspiracy, fraud, bribery and money laundering in a series of elaborate schemes that misappropriated funds.

Worshippers were celebrating the ordination of a bishop on Saturday when, witnesses say, metal girders in the hastily constructed church buckled and crashed onto them. The roof then caved in.

Gambia's longtime president initially seemed to accept the loss, but then suddenly reversed course and called for a new election. Regional leaders are also trying to persuade him to quit power.

"It is my duty and my privilege to declare Nana Akufo-Addo as the president elect of Ghana," election commissioner Charlotte Osei said at a news conference.

"I don't even know how to describe the kinds of things that are landing on us," a dentist trapped in one of Aleppo's last rebel-held neighborhoods tells NPR.

The case is rooted in comments the lawmaker made at a 2014 rally, when supporters chanted that they wanted fewer Moroccans in the country. He then told them, "We're going to take care of that."

China's top court has handed basketball legend Michael Jordan a victory in a long-running trademark dispute over the use of his name by a Chinese company.