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Dozens dead as train derails, splits apart

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 09:13 AM PDT

An express train derailed Wednesday as it hurtled around a curve in northwestern Spain, killing at least 80 people and injuring 178. Security footage shows the moment of the crash.

Arctic thaw could cost $60 trillion

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 05:57 AM PDT

A long-trapped store of methane could rapidly speed up global warming if it escapes from the thawing Siberian tundra, adding as much as $60 trillion to the expected costs of climate change, scientists reported Wednesday.

China's city of sinkholes

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 05:23 AM PDT

Four months after he built a new, two-story brick house in his village in northern China's Shandong Province, Xiao Guoqiang was alarmed to find a huge crack on the living room wall.

How Africa is fueling the world

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 05:35 AM PDT

From laptops to cars, the products you take for granted are made using minerals from Africa. Find out how the world depends on Africa's natural resources, and how those resources are powering African economies.

Arctic thaw could cost $60 trillion

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 05:57 AM PDT

A long-trapped store of methane could rapidly speed up global warming if it escapes from the thawing Siberian tundra, adding as much as $60 trillion to the expected costs of climate change, scientists reported Wednesday.

Rare access to North Korea

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 06:33 AM PDT

CNN's Ivan Watson is given rare access to the opening of a cemetery for war veterans in North Korea's capital.

Bo Xilai indicted for corruption, abuse of power

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 05:26 AM PDT

For more than a year, Bo Xilai has been the elephant in the room in Chinese politics -- the central figure in one of the messiest political scandals to hit the ruling Communist Party in years.

CNN in North Korea: Kim Jong Un honors veterans

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 05:21 AM PDT

The new leader of this isolated country has inaugurated a new veterans' cemetery, on the first of what are expected to be several days of elaborate ceremonies celebrating the 60th anniversary of the conclusion of the Korean War.

Tunisian opposition leader killed outside home

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 11:15 AM PDT

A Tunisian opposition leader was fatally shot outside his home Thursday, setting off protests in a nation still raw from the February assassination of a different politician who opposed the Islamist-led governing party.