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Sisters Suffer From Werewolf Syndrome!

Sisters Suffer From Werewolf Syndrome!

Meet the incredible Sangli sisters, three siblings whose lives have been blighted by one of the rarest conditions in the world – werewolf sydrome. Savita, 23, Monisha, 18, and 16-year-old Savitri are just like any other [...]

Vanishing victims: The ‘open wounds’ of Mexico’s drug war

Vanishing victims: The ‘open wounds’ of Mexico’s drug war

Editor’s note: This story is the second in an occasional series looking at the violence tied to Mexican drug cartels, their expanding global connections and how they affect people’s daily lives. The first article in the [...]

Waiting in Italy

Waiting in Italy

Rome (CNN) — The Italian parliament is expected to face a crucial vote on budget reform measures Tuesday, as the country’s prime minister comes under increasing pressure to resign amid unease over Italy’s economy. Italy agreed [...]

Juan Jose Padilla, Spain Bullfighter, Suffers Terrifying Face Goring

Juan Jose Padilla, Spain Bullfighter, Suffers Terrifying Face Goring

MADRID — A Spanish bullfighter is likely to suffer facial paralysis and lose the sight in one eye after a terrifying goring, the hospital treating him said Saturday. Television images showed the moment when the bull’s [...]

Knox Trial: Court Rejects Request For New DNA Test

Knox Trial: Court Rejects Request For New DNA Test

PERUGIA, Italy — An Italian court rejected a prosecutor’s request Wednesday for new testing of crucial DNA evidence in the appeals trial of Amanda Knox – a positive development for the American student who is seeking [...]

Petermann Glacier Picture: Before And After Images Show Extent Of 2010 Greenland Ice Break

Petermann Glacier Picture: Before And After Images Show Extent Of 2010 Greenland Ice Break

When a 100 mile chunk — an area four times the size of Manhattan — broke off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier in the summer of 2010, scientists knew that it was a historic event. After all, it [...]

Earth’s 2 Moons? It’s Not Lunacy, But New Theory

Earth’s 2 Moons? It’s Not Lunacy, But New Theory

WASHINGTON — In a spectacle that might have beguiled poets, lovers and songwriters if only they had been around to see it, Earth once had two moons, astronomers now think. But the smaller one smashed into [...]

Evo Morales, Bolivian President, Reportedly Fears U.S. Cocaine Plot

Evo Morales, Bolivian President, Reportedly Fears U.S. Cocaine Plot

When Bolivian President Evo Morales traveled to the United States Wednesday to attend a U.N. General Assembly meeting on the first anniversary of the recognition of potable water as a human right, it was not without [...]