A three-year-old girl from southeast China is cut free after becoming stuck in a washing machine.

The world’s biggest gold coin is ready for auction after its investment firm owner went bankrupt.

The death of a Mexican national at the hands of a U.S. border patrol agent is outraging Mexicans and testing relations between the two countries.

As clean up crews hope to stem the damage from the Gulf oil spill — US President Obama continues his own damage control.

In what is being called a “positive step,” BP has managed to cut through the riser pipe from the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico. Jon Decker reports.

Plans to build the world’s 3rd largst dam on the Amazon’s Xingu River raise hopes of progress for some, and fear for others.

The mothers of 3 American hikers detained in Iran, leave New York for Tehran in a bid to secure their children’s release.

The machine is in Abu Dhabi.

Wall Street seemed unsure of itself a day after logging the best one-session gain in more than a year as some investors doubt a $1 trillion European bailout plan.

The U.S. economy saw the strongest job creation in more than four years in April, the strongest signal yet of a strengthening economic recovery.