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When you stare into the icy void, the owl stares back.

WATCH: Care For A Little Zen? Here It Is: A Snowy Owl Riding An Ice Floe

6:30pm January 25, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

Really, the headline says all we can about this one. It's been a long day, everyone — so just take a minute and watch this owl bobbing calmly on a quiet wintry day.

Trump Meets With British And Israeli Prime Ministers At World Economic Forum

6:19pm January 25, 2018

by Scott Horsley

President Trump is attending the annual gathering of global business elite in Davos, Switzerland. He met with the British and Israeli prime ministers on Thursday ahead of a major speech on Friday.

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Spent bullet casings litter a road after authorities reported a gunbattle outside Mazatlan, Mexico, in July 2017, a year marked by the highest homicides in at least decades.

World News

Mexico Registers Its Highest Homicides On Record

6:16pm January 25, 2018

by James Fredrick

The country racked up nearly 30,000 homicides in 2017, the most since it began reporting the statistic in 1997. But that doesn't make it the "most dangerous" country as President Trump claimed.

Bison expert Rafal Kowalczyk spotted the cow this week on the outskirts of Poland's Bialowieza Forest.

Rebellious Cow Finds Winter Home Among Polish Bison

6:01pm January 25, 2018

by Jenny Gathright

She has been spotted twice on the outskirts of Poland's Bialowieza Forest. She appears to be healthy, but she'll need to be removed from the herd before mating season.

The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, seen here in 2015, ruled Thursday that psychological tests of sexual orientation may not be used to rule on asylum applications.

EU Court Rejects 'Gay Tests' For Asylum Seekers

5:52pm January 25, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

The court said that Hungarian officials should not have administered psychological tests to try to determine the sexual orientation of a Nigerian man seeking refugee status.

Arts

Casey Affleck Won't Be Presenting Statuettes At The Oscars

5:43pm January 25, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

The acclaimed actor has been dogged by two sexual harassment lawsuits filed against him by two separate women in 2010. The Academy says it appreciates his decision not to attend the ceremonies.

This is the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site, N.M., on July 16, 1945.

Doomsday Clock Moves Closer To Midnight, We're 2 Minutes From World Annihilation

5:40pm January 25, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

Scientists who assess threats each year and express their concerns using the clock are worried about President Trump's unpredictability and governments' failure to trust each other.

A new study finds people all over the world are able to differentiate between lullabies and dance songs from cultures they're unfamiliar with.

Some Types Of Songs Are Universally Identifiable, Study Suggests

5:27pm January 25, 2018

by Rebecca Hersher

To see if music really is a universal language, researchers gave people 14 second samples of songs from around the world and asked them to say what kind of song it is.

The mummy, now identified as Anna Catharina Bischoff, was discovered in 1975. But it appears that wasn't the first time it was unearthed; researchers now believe the body was also found in 1843.

This Mummified Woman Now Has A Name — And A Famous Relative: Boris Johnson

5:19pm January 25, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

Meet Anna Catharina Bischoff, an 18th century syphilitic woman found in 1975. Researchers announced her name Thursday. And the U.K. foreign secretary says he's "very proud" to have the new family tie.

Dancers perform in Tabasco: A Burlesque Opera, a fiery show that makes its revival this week after being locked up for more than a century.

'Tabasco' Opera Makes Fiery Return in New Orleans

5:07pm January 25, 2018

by Daniella Cheslow

New Orleans conductor Paul Mauffray lifts the lid on a hot sauce opera that had been bottled up for a century. The show ran on Broadway in the late 1800s, and yes, it's about Tabasco.

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