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Saturday, Jan. 25 marks the Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year or Spring Festival. Many will be celebrating the Year of the Rat, the first animal of 12 zodiac signs that rotate in a dozen-year cycle. For those who don’t regularly celebrate the holiday, they may not know what it is, what the Year of the Rat signifies, let alone what their own Chinese zodiac sign may be.

At least 34 U.S. troops were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after an Iranian missile strike hit an Iraqi air base earlier this month, officials at the Pentagon announced Friday.

Police said a suspect was arrested after the shooting that took place Friday in the town of Rot am See.

Shanghai Disneyland said the shutdown would begin on Jan. 25 in response to the deadly coronavirus outbreak.

A British woman who survived cervical cancer but was told she may never be able to have children has since welcomed a set of “miracle”  twins.

The three American firefighters who were killed when the aerial water tanker they were in crashed while battling wildfires in Australia have been identified by their employer.

A 3-year-old boy in the U.K. became the youngest member of Mensa after scoring 142 on his IQ test.

Three American firefighters died in a water tanker plane crash Thursday while battling wildfires in Australia, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian confirmed.

The Chinese city is shutting down all transportation out of the city, saying that no one would be allowed to leave, officials reported.

A Chinese health official says 440 cases of the new coronavirus have been confirmed and at least nine deaths.

A Chinese theme park is getting substantial international backlash after a pig was tied up and forced to bungee jump from a 220-foot-plus platform as part of a publicity stunt for the park’s newest attraction.

The young climate activist said not enough has been done while participating in a panel in the Swiss ski resort of Davos at the World Economic Forum.

After a series of heartbreaking images of starving lions in Sudan were posted online, a global campaign is underway to save them.

President Donald Trump sought Tuesday to sell the United States to the global business community, telling an economic conference in the Swiss Alps that America's economic turnaround has been “nothing short of spectacular.”

Human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in an outbreak of a new coronavirus in China, raising fears it could spread quickly.

A United Kingdom woman was left stunned after she snapped an "eerie" photo of a cloud some say looks like Jesus.

A heating pipe burst Monday in small Russian hotel, flooding rooms with boiling water that killed five people and left six others injured in the city of Perm, emergency officials said.

Prince Harry on Sunday publicly addressed his decision to "step back" from royal life, saying he wanted to continue supporting Queen Elizabeth without public funding, but "unfortunately, that wasn't possible."