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Lucas Papademos, a former banker and European Central Bank vice president, has been named prime minister of Greece, the Greek president’s office said Thursday.

Arriving in central Bangkok from the sparkling international airport, a visitor might not know at first glance that much of the city is under water.

A new International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran's nuclear activities brings efforts to resolve the crisis to a very "dangerous turning point," an expert on the region said Wednesday.

A Tunisian court has rejected a request to release Libya's former prime minister, who is set to be extradited back to his country, Tunisia's official news agency reported Wednesday.

A historian has been arrested in central Russia after police found the corpses of 29 women, dressed as dolls, in his apartment, authorities said this week.

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey Wednesday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Since 1979, when Sweden first banned corporal punishment of children in homes, 30 countries have followed suit. Most experts don't foresee this happening in the United States, and some don't believe that's necessarily a bad thing.

Angry Syrian protesters camped out at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo hurled eggs and tomatoes at an opposition delegation Wednesday, preventing a meeting with the agency's chief.

The only hospital on the border between Sudan and South Sudan is running short of supplies as rebels menace oil fields in the region, a U.N. photographer who visited the isolated area told CNN.

Europe’s financial crisis claimed its second scalp in three days when Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi announced he will resign. What happens next, and is there a way out for Italy?