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The Olympic torch began its 70-day, 8,000-mile journey around Britain Saturday from Land’s End in Cornwall, with three-time Olympic gold medal winner Ben Ainslie the first to carry the torch.

An oil painting of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the buff was unveiled at a public library in Ontario.

Rights groups have slammed a lunch being hosted by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II on Friday for including monarchs criticized over their countries’ human rights records.

President Barack Obama and other world leaders are set to address a host of vexing economic and military security issues this weekend.

France’s new Socialist government is already causing ripples throughout a Europe struggling to balance government budgets without making ordinary people’s lives miserable, but it has created a completely different problem in the Middle East.

Three shipwrecked fishermen lived on clams and seaweed for 10 days while stranded on an island off Canada’s Pacific Coast until a passing sailboat rescued them, the Royal Canadian Navy said Friday.

CNN’s Becky Anderson drives down memory lane with participants in the Italian classic car race, Mille Miglia.

The body of a crime reporter who had been abducted Thursday in northwest Sonora State was found Friday inside a plastic bag south of Sonora, Notimex reported.

On Sunday, 49 decapitated bodies were found on a major highway outside Monterrey, Mexico, which is about 80 miles southwest of the U.S. border.

At 13 years old, Nickolaus Dent is his mother’s primary caregiver.