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It's not immediately clear why the 121-foot-high homage to Mao Zedong in central China was brought down, but widespread ridicule might have had something to do with it.

Taiwanese officials canceled traditional New Year celebrations and instead went to temples to pray for earthquake victims.

Both the Dow Jones index and the S&P 500 saw gains of nearly 4 percent; the Nasdaq index rose even higher.

Microsoft Vice President Yusuf Mehdi announced Tuesday that the new operating system is running in 192 countries and on a wide range of devices, including ones made as early as 2007.

In 50 years, Amelia Boynton Robinson went from being beaten on a bridge in Selma, Ala., to being pushed across the bridge in a wheelchair alongside the president of the United States.

There were scenes of fast-moving water in the streets on the island of Dominica after the storm dumped 9 inches of rain in a few hours. It could hit Florida as a Category 1 hurricane next week.

The incident happened at the World Athletics Championships, where a highly anticipated match-up had pitted the Jamaican against America's Justin Gatlin.

With the five-year statute of limitations deadline approaching, Julian Assange could be cleared of three out of four accusations of sex crimes.

An industrial accident resulted in a massive blast in the port city of Tianjin.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says the suspects are believed to have been involved in torture and aiding regimes that carried out ethnic cleansing.