Day: March 13, 2012

An Egyptian court has acquitted an army doctor accused of forcibly administering virginity tests on female detainees, state-run Nile TV said Sunday.

Deep sea treasure hunters may evoke storybook images of swashbuckling buccaneers on daring ocean adventures.

U.S. airstrikes targeted militant hideouts and arms caches in separate attacks over three days in Yemen, killing at least 64 suspected al Qaeda insurgents before the strikes ended Sunday, senior Yemeni officials told CNN.

In the lush rainforests of Africa’s Congo Basin, hundreds of thousands of indigenous people live as hunter gatherers, depending on the forest’s natural resources for their survival. Yet most have no legal rights to the land that has been their home for…

CNN’s Ivan Watson describes how social media played a part in Syria and Libya during a South by Southwest discussion.

CNN’s Nic Robertson meets Lebanese gun smugglers struggling to supply weapons to anti-Assad forces just over the border.