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Khalil Senosi/AP A relieved Kenyan woman holds her baby as she waits at the immigration hall after being evacuated from South Sudan by the Kenyan Defence Forces at Wilson Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday. NAIROBI, Kenya — Amid the eruption of violence along ethnic lines in South Sudan, U.N. investigators discovered a mass grave in a rebel-held city, the United ...

Pope Francis (right) met his predecessor, Benedict XVI, at Benedict’s retirement home in the Vatican Monday. Pope Francis visited his predecessor Benedict XVI Monday to exchange Christmas greetings. The two men, dressed in white cassocks and skull caps, were photographed meeting at Benedict’s retirement home within the walls of the Vatican. AP Pope Francis (right) paid a visit to Benedict ...

AFP/Guillermo Legaria Oscar Perez (r.) and Oscar Diaz (l) play tejo, a popular Colombian game that every weekend gathers thousands of fans. Players toss a tejo, or disc, at a metal tube that’s surrounded by bags of gunpowder. As sports go, it is rather old, quite boozy and a tad explosive. It involves trying to hurl a disc into a ...

Oli Scarff/Getty Images Nigella Lawson, a celebrity chef who admitted hard drug use, was known by her former assistants to have wild mood swings. Nigella Lawson acted like a “zombie” one minute and a “Duracell bunny” the next, said the Italian sisters cleared Friday of defrauding the TV chef and her ex-husband Charles Saatchi while working as assistants for Lawson. ...

France 3 Haute-Normandie via You An X-ray shows the surgical scissors that had been left inside the woman’s womb. A new mom who was in pain weeks after giving birth has discovered the surgeon left a pair of surgical pliers in her womb. The pliers had been inside her body for more than six weeks before being discovered. The unnamed ...

STRINGER/REUTERS Syrian activist and photographer Molhem Barakat poses at an undisclosed location in this recent picture taken in November 2013. BEIRUT – A Syrian photographer who took pictures for Reuters on a freelance basis has been killed while covering fighting in Aleppo, activists said. Molhem Barakat died on Friday as he took photographs of a battle over a hospital between ...

ABC Target offered a 10 percent discount to shoppers this weekend as an apology for a security breach that exposed 40 million credit and debit card numbers. But the reduction was only available in stores, and not on the Internet. Holiday news for Target shoppers got even gloomier with reports that credit card information stolen from 40 million accounts has ...

Jefferson Siegel/New York Daily News Deputy Consul General Devyani Khobragade (left) was detained, strip-searched and charged by the feds after housekeeper Sangeeta Richard’s allegations of mistreatment. The arrest caused an international firestorm, which Richard finds ‘overwhelming,’ her lawyer told the Daily News. The housekeeper who sparked an international firestorm when her allegations led to the arrest of an Indian official ...

National Police of Spain Police say they found dozens of videos of children being abused after searching the suspect’s home. A suspected pedophile soccer coach was arrested after a burglar broke into his home and found dozens of sick child sex videos on his shelves, police said. The shocked thief dumped three tapes, which allegedly contained footage of 10-year-old children ...

CBC Erin Greene of Montreal says she’s lucky to be alive after a 400-pound polar bear attacked her last month, pouncing on her and swinging her around like a rag doll. A Montreal woman says she’s lucky to be alive after a 400-pound polar bear picked her out of a group last month, pounced on her head and swung her ...