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Albinos in Tanzania have been attacked and killed because some people believe their body parts bring good luck. But one albino is fighting back.

Holding a black noose over her head, Singaporean forensics expert Lim Chin-Chin explained Wednesday to a packed courtroom how re-enactments showed that American engineer Shane Todd would have been able to hang himself from a similar black strap attached to his bathroom door.

Tropical Cyclone Mahasen began to lash the coast of Bangladesh with heavy rain Thursday, bringing the risk of flooding and landslides to densely populated, low-lying communities.

As a juvenile corrections officer in Southern California, Teresa Goines found it rewarding to work with troubled youth and help them turn their lives around.

Thursday night, The Office says goodbye with a one-hour retrospective (NBC, 8 p.m. ET), followed by the one-hour series finale. For Brian Baumgartner (Kevin), the table read was the most emotional day working on that last episode. "We hadn't read it. We were all reading the words and what was going to happen in that moment," he says. "I'd heard a rumor about Kevin, and based on what the rumor was, I wasn't happy. But then when I read it and saw how things worked, I was very happy."

May has been a bad month for relations between Taiwan and the Philippines, with Taiwan reacting angrily to a Philippine coast guard vessel's killing of a fisherman.

President Obama met with Turkey's prime minister to talk about ways of handling the raging conflict in Syria, but he said "it's not gonna be something that the United States does by itself."

U.S. military leaders are "angry" and "ashamed" over sexual assaults plaguing the armed forces, President Barack Obama said Thursday after ordering top Pentagon officials to "leave no stone unturned" in the effort to stop the abuse.

A cigarette smuggling scheme that cost New York state millions of dollars in sales tax revenue may have raised funds for militant groups, authorities said.

The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon attack indicated that the bombings were designed to avenge Muslims killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, a sources tells CNN.

Texas State Fire Marshal Chris Connealy said Thursday that the cause of the April 17 fire that led to explosions that killed 15 people is "undetermined."

Federal authorities are investigating threatening letters allegedly containing deadly ricin in Spokane, Washington, the FBI said Thursday.

Braxton Bielski didn't have a 5-pound bass on his mind when he recently took his cane pole to a reservoir in south Texas.

A U.S. Army sergeant was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for gunning down five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq.

A U.S. Army sergeant was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for gunning down five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq.

Police in Omaha, Nebraska, said Thursday that they're looking into whether there's a connection between the recent killings of a university professor and his wife and two unsolved area homicides.

May 17, 2013

Tornadoes touch down in Texas, U.S. lawmakers react to an IRS scandal, and a workshop helps students build character as they build bikes.

Richard "Dick" Trickle -- who made a name for himself as a NASCAR driver -- died Thursday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, a North Carolina sheriff's office said.

Six people were killed and more than 100 people were injured after tornadoes ripped through north Texas, hitting Habitat for Humanity homes the hardest.