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Designer and TV host Nate Berkus is a member of the American Red Cross Celebrity Cabinet, which helps to highlight the organization's initiatives and response efforts.

Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Baghdad Tuesday on a previously unannounced trip to Iraq.

A complete set of 100 etchings by Pablo Picasso — never before seen in public — is to go on display at the British Museum after an "extraordinary" $1.5 million gift.

Pakistan, seething over the NATO killing last week of two dozen of its troops, has decided to boycott an upcoming conference on the future of Afghanistan.

Call it the ultimate in military logistics. As land routes from Pakistan into Afghanistan are cut, sabotaged or otherwise interrupted, the U.S. military has developed alternative railroad routes that make the Orient Express look like a branch line.

The editors of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid knew that their reporters were hacking phones in search of stories, former News of the World journalist Paul McMullan testified Tuesday.

Richard Leakey has spent a lifetime exploring Kenya's Turkana Basin searching for the origins of man.

Millions of American families have slipped into what the U.S. Census Bureau defines as poor. About 46.2 million people are considered in poverty, 2.6 million more than last year.

CNN takes a look at some of the continent's most famous and much-loved musical exports.

Rival revolutionary brigades remain almost entirely responsible for security in Libya, posing that country's most pressing challenge, according to the top United Nations envoy in Libya and a new U.N. report.