Day: April 17, 2012

French voters are preparing to elect a new president. CNN’s Senior International Correspondent Jim Bittermann explains what the main themes of the election are, how the system works and who is likely to win.

Julian Cardona is a photojournalist who works in the “murder capital of the world” — Juarez, Mexico.

Authorities in northern Pakistan were looking for 384 inmates who escaped from a prison early Sunday morning after hundreds of Taliban militants raided the facility.

The Tokyo metropolitan government expects to strike a deal to buy a set of islands in the East China Sea claimed by both Japan and China, the governor of Tokyo has said.

The Tokyo metropolitan government expects to strike a deal to buy a set of islands in the East China Sea claimed by both Japan and China, the governor of Tokyo has said.

The last five bodies recovered from the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner have been identified, the mayor’s office in the Italian city of Grosseto said Tuesday.

Barring the direst emergency imaginable, I have every intention, sometime between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Tuesday, to make myself 10 years old again.

India plans the maiden test flight this week of its longest-range nuclear-capable missile, which can travel more than 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles), military officials said.