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Grab your hiking boots, a light snack, and some water because today is National Take a Hike Day! The annual event encourages people to get active while enjoying the scenery by tackling the world's best hiking trails. Check out 10 of the most scenic hikes in the world to celebrate National Take A Hike Day inside.

University of Houston-Downtown's (UHD) Political Science Student of the Year RoShawn Evans defied the odds after being wrongfully jailed for a crime he did not commit. It was only through his resilience that he was capable of emerging from the corrupt corrections system armed to create substantial change in the world.

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Two female suicide bombers between the ages of 17 and 20 reportedly blew themselves up this week in a camp in northeastern Nigeria designed to protect people trying to escape Boko Haram terrorists, killing at least 58 people.

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The World Health Organization has labeled the mosquito-borne Zika virus a global public health emergency, the same label given to the Ebola virus in 2014.

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Houses were torched, suicide bombers detonated devices, and militants opened fire near Nigeria's largest northeastern city.

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If true, the testing of the bomb -- hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 -- is the first for the country who has thrice tested plutonium weapons in underground nuclear experiments.

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Two men have been arrested in relation to an attack that took place at a luxury hotel in the capital of Mali last week.

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President Barack Obama addressed his GOP critics at the G20 Turkey Leaders Summit Monday, telling them not to “pop off” over his handling of Syrian refugees…

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Hundreds of people lost their lives in Saudi Arabia Wednesday during a stampede near the city of Mecca. Nearly two million people are in the city

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According to reports, Nigerian military officials have rescued 178 people who were kidnapped by the Boko Haram Islamist militant group. The military released a statement