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Bamako - Mali's caretaker president Dioncounda Traore will have his mandate extended beyond a 40-day period expiring Monday after the soldier who led Mali's March 22 coup agreed to drop his objections to the move.

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A 13-year-old Washington state boy is safe after a dramatic overnight rescue above Wallace Falls near Gold Bar.

A man who arranged a meeting for sex with someone he thought was an 11-year-old girl has been... DAMASCUS, Syria - A roadside bomb exploded in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital as the chief of the U.N. observers was visiting.

While the G-8 Summit leaders held a working lunch on food security, first lady Michelle Obama played host back at the White House.

From left: Howard Ben Tre's work at Brown University, his studio in Pawtucket, and the artist with one of his works at the Rhode Island Convention Center.

Sipping coffee in the private room of a Bloor St. cafe, rising British novelist Naomi Alderman deftly explains the mystery-shrouded process by which she came to be paired with Margaret Atwood in the Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative.

A former president whose single term ended with the deepest economic crisis in the modern history of the Dominican Republic is seeking redemption Sunday as he faces an old rival in what is expected to be a close election to lead the Caribbean's top tourist destination.

A van with covered windows leaves in a convoy under a tight security from the hospital where blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng was recuperating in Beijing, China, Saturday, May 19, 2012.

Police in Jamaica say that a woman from Ohio has died after being hit by a minibus near the popular tourist town of Montego Bay.

The man in the brown suit doesn't need to speak above a whisper to sell his goods along a busy street in the Argentine capital: "Money change.

Rodrigo y Gabriela plays everything from heavy metal to jazz to acoustic folk. The duo started out in a thrash-metal band in Mexico City, but moved to Dublin in 1999.

Since February, Palm Springs has challenged top bartenders from fifteen LGBT clubs and restaurants across the nation to stir, shake and mix-up desert inspired cocktails for its 3rd annual "Palm Springs Summer Splash Cocktail Challenge," presented by Here Media and Stoli Vodka.

The political hubbub over Washington's decision to grant a visa to the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro has eclipsed the fact the State Department simultaneously denied nearly a dozen other prominent Cubans permits to attend an academic conference in California, among them some of the island's most independent and open-minded scholars.

'MEET THE RUBIOS' In her first extended interview , Jeanette Rubio joined her husband Marco Rubio to discuss their family life with Politico and said that she is prepared for whatever scrutiny the couple may undergo as his national profile begins to rise.

A photography exhibit about Aung San Suu Kyi's successful campaign for Parliament is showing just how far Myanmar has come since ending a half century of military rule.

There's sun, sand and sex in Cannes Film Festival entry "Paradise: Love" _ and they add up to a grim and unsettling holiday movie.

In Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," the famously meticulous director takes his fastidiously fashioned world and flings it into the woods.

The Ontario government insists it is not expanding gambling in the province, but it does want to make gaming more accessible to more people.

The opening of Berlin's new 2.5-billion-euro airport must be further delayed until spring of next year, the capital's mayor said Thursday, in a growing embarrassment for city officials.