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About 709,000 years ago, someone butchered a rhinoceros using stone tools on the Philippine island of Luzon. That may not seem remarkable -- except that humans weren't supposed to be in the Philippines so long ago.

A few years ago, when my girls were in the second and third grades, they raved about the dance breaks they would occasionally have during the school day.

Few superlatives have been left unused this season in describing the phenomenal Mo Salah, the mesmerizing forward Liverpool fans now refer to as the "Egyptian King."

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi praised North Korea's commitment to denuclearization during a rare visit to Pyongyang on Wednesday.

The widow of the late Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has made a desperate cry for help, friends say, as the Chinese government refuses to let her travel abroad for medical treatment nearly 10 months after her husband's death.

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A 104-year-old Australian scientist will fly to Europe on Wednesday to end his life, saying he "greatly regrets" living to his advanced age.

Concrete: we can't live with it, can't live without it. A combination of cement, water and ground rock or sand, on the surface concrete might seem crushingly mundane. Yet it has defined construction in recent centuries and with it, in part, modernity.

The release of three US nationals currently detained in North Korea is "imminent," according to an official with knowledge of the ongoing negotiations.

Cricket Australia has announced the appointment of Test great Justin Langer as coach of the men's national team, drawing a line under a ball-tampering scandal that caused national outrage earlier in the year.

Two African-American men whose arrest at a Philadelphia Starbucks sparked protests over racial bias have reached agreements with the coffee store chain and the city, and have pledged to support a $200,000 effort to encourage young entrepreneurs.

The islands of Cambodia have finally started to get the attention they deserve, but they're still positively picturesque and far less developed than their popular Thai neighbors.

Prom dresses are designed to get reactions, and the history of social media is littered with viral prom outfits -- dresses made out of unusual materials, dresses that send statements and dresses that are, well, regrettable, to say the least.

A military plane carrying five crew members crashed Wednesday near Savannah, Georgia, officials said.

Scientists already knew that birds evolved from dinosaurs. But thanks to a Yale-led study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, they know what the first bird beak looked like during that evolutionary journey.

The US State Department issued a scathing rebuke of North Korea's human rights record on Wednesday, calling the regime "one of the most repressive and abusive governments in the world" just days after President Donald Trump praised dictator Kim Jong Un's "honorable" intentions ahead of a possible face-to-face sit down between the two leaders.

Cambridge Analytica, the embattled data firm that worked on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, announced it is shutting down operations.

Harold Bornstein, Donald Trump's longtime personal physician, is a comic character. From his long hair to his odd personal manner and pronouncements, he is someone that is hard to take seriously.

Sunscreen does a good job of protecting our skin, but it may not be so good for marine life.

Liverpool saw off a spirited Roma fightback to reach their first Champions League final in 11 years.

Three survivors of clerical sex abuse urged Pope Francis to turn his words into action against the "networks of abuse" in the Catholic Church.

Several thousand ancient artifacts are being returned to Iraq after they were falsely labeled as "tile samples" and illegally smuggled to the US retailer Hobby Lobby, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, said this week.

On Wednesday at 12:16 p.m. ET, ABC News tweeted out this quote from Ty Cobb, one of the lead lawyers on President Donald Trump's legal team, about the possibility of the president sitting down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller: "It's certainly not off the table and people are working hard to make decisions and work towards an interview."

A group of patients with a rare type of eye cancer called ocular melanoma has researchers and epidemiologists stumped.

Van Lathan just became a champion of Kanye West critics and an example, for some, of the need for racial diversity in the workplace.

President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to "get involved" with the Justice Department's ongoing task of producing documents to lawmakers after accusations the agency has refused requests on a variety of topics.

Up to 270 women in England may have died because they were not called for a final breast cancer screening, the British government disclosed on Wednesday.

The little boy holds open his arms as he stands, satisfied, in front of a rainbow-colored line of toy cars he's placed in the middle of a street.

CNN's Anderson Cooper rebuts President Donald Trump's tweets stating special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is a "witch hunt" and that there are no questions about collusion with Russia.

Formula One could be headed for downtown Miami next year, the sport's organizers revealed Wednesday.

Customs agents are used to seeing many strange things on the US-Mexico border.

In HBO's 45-year history, the network has never aired a female boxing match -- but that is soon to change.

Trump lawyer / fixer / organizer of Playboy model (alleged) mistress payoffs Michael Cohen graces the cover of the National Enquirer this week, pictured looking hangdog and droopy under the headline "PAYOFFS & THREATS EXPOSED: TRUMP FIXER'S SECRETS & LIES!"

Real Madrid reached their fourth Champions League final in five years, narrowly seeing off Bayern Munich in an enthralling semifinal.

Almost a decade after sparking an international diplomatic incident by throwing his shoes at former US President George W. Bush in Baghdad, Muntadhar al-Zaidi is planning a political career of his own.

President Donald Trump's lawyers are preparing for a legal showdown with special counsel Robert Mueller, according to sources familiar with their thinking.

Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, is preparing for a series of crunch votes in Parliament as she battles opponents on all sides.

Princess Charlotte -- now the middle child of Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge -- celebrated her third birthday on Wednesday, nine days after the arrival of the newest addition to the British royal family.