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Asian markets were battered Monday amid a confusing swirl of signals about the US-China trade war.

The judge presiding over the historic Oklahoma opioid trial will deliver his ruling Monday afternoon -- a decision that could have sweeping implications as other states and communities try to hold pharmaceutical companies responsible for the opioid epidemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans since 2000.

As word spread Saturday night that Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck is retiring, some fans booed the four-time Pro Bowler after a preseason game against the Chicago Bears.

Brazil's Amazon rainforest is burning, with more than one-and-a-half soccer fields worth of rainforest destroyed every minute of every day, according to the country's space research center.

On a humid Sunday night in Hong Kong's financial district, hundreds of young people ready themselves for the latest protest.

Wild, weird, wonderful... there are many ways to describe the Crazy House (also known as Hang Nga Guesthouse) in Dalat, a relaxed mountain resort town in southern Vietnam.

It's been a heady summer for Russia's embattled political opposition. On August 10, as many as 50,000 people rallied in Moscow calling for fair local elections, the biggest protests seen in the capital since early 2012. Now opposition leaders are calling for a protest on August 31, hoping to build on the momentum of Moscow's summer of discontent.

Banksy's mural of a workman chiseling away at a star in the European Union flag mysteriously disappeared from the side of a building in Dover, England, over the weekend.

For travelers, there are few things more annoying than a delayed flight.

When Iran's Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, landed in Biarritz Sunday afternoon it appeared France's Emmanuel Macron, this year's G7 host, had pulled off an end run around his most powerful guest, US President Donald Trump.

Seven people were killed Sunday when a helicopter and a small plane collided in the air above the Spanish island of Mallorca, authorities said.

Even after President Donald Trump claimed all was well at the Group of 7 summit, which got underway Sunday on France's Atlantic coast, there was evidence of rancor behind the scenes.

On August 25, 1919 the first regular international passenger air service took place between London, England and Paris, France.

Conservative radio host and former Illinois US Rep. Joe Walsh will challenge President Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination in 2020, he announced Sunday.

In the face of possible economic distress, trade wars and a re-election campaign, conservative writer Bill Kristol says President Trump looks demoralized at the G7 meetings.

It will be remembered as Headingley's last stand.

Cats may be known for having nine lives, but some dogs are pretty lucky, too.

NASA is examining a claim that an astronaut improperly accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse from the International Space Station, The New York Times reported Friday -- potentially the first criminal allegation from space.

The Israeli military Saturday said it foiled a "pending large-scale attack" by Iranian forces and Shiite militia on targets in Israel with a series of airstrikes near Damascus.

The California sheriff's deputy at the center of what was described as a sniper shooting admitted that he made it all up, authorities said.

At least five people were injured after lightning struck a tree at the Tour Championship golf tournament in Atlanta, police and the organizers said on Saturday.

The record wildfires raging in the Amazon region could permanently change the ecosystem there, accelerating climate change across the planet.

"Our identity is intensity."

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told reporters Saturday that he will ask US President Donald Trump not to escalate the trade war with China.

Thirty years ago, NASA's Voyager 2 mission flew by Neptune, capturing the first close-up images of the blue gas giant. Before this, the eighth planet in our solar system was only known as a fuzzy dot in the distance.

The US is warning Iran it's taking Tehran's threats seriously and will hold it accountable if it compromises the safety of any American.

Russia launched two ballistic missiles from nuclear-powered submarines in the Arctic Ocean and the Barents Sea on Saturday, according to a tweet from the Russian Ministry of Defense.

A tropical depression formed Saturday and gained intensity within hours to become Tropical Storm Dorian, the fourth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center said. Forecasters believe it could approach hurricane strength early next week.

Bolivia just got a huge helping hand in the fight to keep raging fires in the Amazon rainforest at bay.

Earlier this month, Hong Kong's protesters brought the city's airport to a standstill. Now, as another weekend of demonstrations begins, the city's famously efficient subway has pre-emptively shuttered some of its own stations -- angering protestors in the process.

As a young Texas couple were leaving the courthouse for their wedding ceremony, their car collided with a pickup truck, killing both of them, according to CNN affiliate KFDM.

"Black Panther" fans can finally mark their calendars for the highly-anticipated sequel.

Federal officials say they've seized more than 52,000 firearms parts that arrived illegally from China at California's Los Angeles and Long Beach ports.

At the end of a recent meeting, middle school teacher Cassie Lopez and her colleagues were handed a large bucket, kitty litter and a pop-up shower curtain.

As the global economy shudders, the Middle East boils and the Amazon rainforest burns, world leaders are convening on France's Atlantic coast for a weekend of talks few believe can solve any of it.

When Russia forcibly annexed Crimea in the spring of 2014, sending heavily armed masked men onto the peninsula that indisputably belonged to Ukraine, it triggered a collective gasp of disbelief across Europe. After all, it was the first time since the break-up of the Soviet Union that Russian troops occupied the sovereign territory of one of its former states.

In Florida, golfers play by a different set of rules. And one of the rules may or may not include ignoring giant, scary alligators.

Called "the lungs of the Earth", the Amazon rainforest and its lush trees make roughly 20% of the oxygen on Earth. Yet, right now, the skies of Sao Paolo, Brazil are black and the smoke can be seen from space

For more than a decade, the United States maintained its dominance in international men's basketball. All of that changed Saturday, when Team USA lost its first game since 2006 to Australia.

Thousands of protesters marched at G7 protests near the French coastal resort of Biarritz to demand action from world leaders.

President Donald Trump claimed he has the "absolute right" to "order" US companies to stop doing business with China that would involve using his broad executive authority in a new and unprecedented way under a 1977 law.

British Airways pilots will strike in September for three days over a pay dispute, the first pilot walkout in about four decades.

This weekend, Boris Johnson makes his leadership debut on the world stage at the G7 in the French resort of Biarritz.

The wait is over.

A 30-year-old man was crushed to death Thursday by an elevator at a New York high-rise, police said.

Deposed Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir is hoping to be released from jail on bail while he awaits his fate in a corruption trial that has captivated the country.

Britain's Prince Andrew has said that during the "limited time" he spent with financier Jeffrey Epstein, he never saw, witnessed, or suspected "any behavior of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest and conviction."

First things first: The theme song of the week is the ESPN's SportsCentury.

Officials in Russia's northern city of Arkhangelsk have acknowledged that one of the doctors who helped treat victims of a recent mysterious explosion at a military test site was found to have a radioactive isotope in his body.

Two New York women who plotted to build a bomb for a terrorist attack in the United States face 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges, authorities say.