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Recent weeks have seen black swastikas scrawled across portraits of Auschwitz survivor, Simone Veil; 96 tombs at a Jewish cemetery defaced in eastern France; and the words, "Dirty Zionist sh*t!", hurled in anger at French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut by a man wearing a fluorescent yellow vest.

Years after an outbreak was stamped out, rabies has returned to the raccoons of New York City's most densely populated borough.

Etihad Airways flew 350 Special Olympics World Games athletes on one flight to ensure the US contingent traveled in comfort.

US ski star Mikaela Shiffrin became the first person to claim 15 World Cup wins in a single season with a slalom victory on Saturday.

The Chrysler Building, the famous art deco New York skyscraper, will be sold for a small fraction of its previous sales price.

This week saw the beginning of a new era of human spaceflight, thanks to the launch and return of SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule, the first commercially operated spacecraft designed to carry astronauts. It's not shuttling humans just yet, but it did have some interesting cargo.

Remember the days when British politics was like its weather and its food? Safely predictable, frequently disappointing, seldom extreme? Those days of moderation are behind us. The fish and chips haven't changed, but everything else has. Stable, dependable Britain has become dangerously unhinged.

The newborn son of British ISIS bride Shamima Begum has died, the Kurdish Red Crescent confirmed to CNN.

With quirky features such as attack mode and fan boost, it's a racing series that has been likened to Mario Kart.

There's an old saying in American politics that a Democratic crook is just as bad as a Republican crook.

A Malaysian man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for insulting Islam and the Prophet Mohammed on his Facebook page, police said.

If officials had a reason to resist granting Ivanka Trump a security clearance, and all indications suggest they did, their concerns were not heeded by the President. In fact, just the opposite.

VAR, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin.

India has called on the United States to investigate Pakistan's alleged use of American-made F-16 jets during an aerial engagement last month that brought the two nuclear armed neighbors to the brink of conflict.

Satellite images of a North Korean rocket assembly facility suggest possible launch preparations, Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Project at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, told CNN on Friday.

Zhang Zhixia is sitting in a black metal chair, flipping through handouts about telecom fraud prevention with her reading glasses on. She is back in class after leaving school almost five decades ago.

CNN's Jeff Zeleny reports on some of the youngest presidential candidates vying for the White House in 2020, including Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI).

Longtime mob boss Carmine "The Snake" Persico died at 85 on Thursday, his attorney Benson Weintraub confirmed Friday.

"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett has been indicted on 16 felony counts by a Cook County grand jury.

Defying decades of political tradition, China's most powerful man is going gray.

SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule unlatched from the International Space Station early Friday morning to begin its long trip home, capping off its historic first test flight.

A judge has held Chelsea Manning in contempt and she is being detained, her lawyer says.

A blackout swept across Venezuela on Thursday, leaving many states without power.

White House deputy chief of staff and de facto communications director Bill Shine has stepped down to join the Trump campaign, press secretary Sarah Sanders announced in a statement Friday.

A judge has sentenced a 37-year-old Ugandan woman to 11 years in jail for performing female genital mutilation (FGM) on her three-year-old daughter, the UK's Press Association (PA) news agency reported.

Less than 24 hours after former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to 47 months in jail for a variety of financial crimes related to his dealing in the Ukraine, the President seized on the sentence as some sort of validation of his oft-repeated contention that there was "no collusion" between his campaign and the Russians during the 2016 race.

As Theresa May tries desperately to break the Brexit deadlock, a compelling narrative is emerging in London. If May can win the approval of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, she can get her hardline Conservative Brexiteers on board.

North Korea has acknowledged for the first time that February's Hanoi summit between its leader, Kim Jong Un, and US President Donald Trump ended "unexpectedly without an agreement."

To me, my parents' relationship is like a Bollywood movie. Anil, an actor, and Sunita, a former model and fashion designer, met in high school, fell in love, and have been happily married for 35 years.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has provoked outrage on International Women's Day by saying that men should not have to make way for women's empowerment.

When Paul Manafort was sentenced to about four years in federal prison, the backlash was fast and furious on social media.

As the manager for the Afghanistan Women's National Football Team, I've seen the remarkable drive that women and girls have to play football.

Racist abuse targeted at the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, has increased on Twitter and Instagram in the weeks and months following the announcement of her pregnancy, sources have told CNN.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian charity worker who was jailed in Iran almost three years ago on spying charges, has been given diplomatic protection by the UK government.

Climate-related disasters, extreme weather events and depleting water sources affect everyone on earth, but studies show that women are disproportionately impacted by global warming.

Donald Trump has rarely caught a break since special counsel Robert Mueller clamped a vise around his White House two years ago.

The wait is finally over for travelers who frequently fly into Singapore's Changi Airport.

The 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach, whose rescue from a waterlogged cave after an 18 day ordeal captured the world's attention, could be about to sign a deal with Netflix.

Britain's knife crime epidemic has already claimed its tenth teenage victim this year, prompting calls for urgent action from the government. CNN's Nina dos Santos reports.

In Syria, the fight to extinguish ISIS' self-declared caliphate is grinding down, but as the terror group's territory shrinks toward vanishing, their ideology has not been defeated. CNN's Ben Wedeman was on the ground as ISIS fighters surrendered.

There are a few moments in the history of technology when everything changed, like when Alexander Graham Bell spoke into the mouthpiece of a device he had invented saying "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you."

Former President Jimmy Carter is willing to travel to North Korea in order to meet with Kim Jong Un on behalf of President Donald Trump, a Democratic congressman told CNN on Thursday.

US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback has accused the Chinese Communist Party of being "at war with faith," and warned that its policies risk stoking extremism.

A top Ghanian official has promised action following a CNN report into child slavery on Lake Volta.

When Apple announced three new iPhones last September, I think everyone expected Samsung to come back with three new phones on the Galaxy S flagship line.