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An 11-year-old girl is facing a first-degree child abuse charge after she assaulted a 1-year-old boy she was babysitting in Maryland, leaving him with injuries so severe, he died days later, police said.

Anti-vaccination "fake news" being spread on social media is fueling a rise in measles cases and a decline in vaccination uptake, the head of England's National Health Service (NHS) has warned.

Tensions on the border between India and Pakistan last week pushed the two nuclear-powered South Asian adversaries closer to conflict than at any point in the past two decades.

Jerry Lee Lewis, best known for his 1950s rockabilly piano hits "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," has suffered a stroke, his Facebook page said.

The family of Otto Warmbier rebuked President Donald Trump on Friday for siding with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who denied knowledge of their son's maltreatment during his imprisonment.

When Otto Warmbier was returned to the United States in 2017 and died shortly afterward, President Donald Trump condemned the North Korean regime for the imprisonment and suspected torture of the college student who was arrested in 2015 for alleged spying.

The chairman of the House Oversight Committee issued a stark warning Friday to White House counsel Pat Cipollone, demanding that the White House turn over documents and comply with interviews related to how the White House handled security clearances of some of the President's closest advisers.

Poppy farmers in India are saying their crops are being damaged by parrots that have become addicted to the opium in their plants.

The heartbreaking photo shows a 6-year-old girl, blood smeared all over her face, as she waits to be rescued from the rubble of a bombed-out building in northwestern Syria.

The United States is giving the United Kingdom a preview of what it can expect from take-no-prisoners trade negotiations after Brexit.

Algerians are expected to stage the country's biggest protests in decades, days before Algeria's ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika formally runs for a fifth term.

She was covered from head to toe in black. Identifying herself only as Um Bassam, the mother of Bassam, she told me she was 25 years old, the mother of four children, a widow, and from the city of Aleppo.

Hopes for the survival of about three dozen miners trapped in a collapsed illegal gold mine in Indonesia have severely diminished as oxygen levels at the site fall.

CNN's Fareed Zakaria calls it "inconceivable" that President Donald Trump said he believes North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was not aware of the conditions in which former American prisoner Otto Warmbier was held.

At the end of a meeting with President Trump, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un answered a question from a Washington Post journalist. CNN's Ivan Watson called the response a "remarkable moment."

It almost sounded like compassion -- compassion for the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un -- when President Donald Trump explained that Kim "felt very badly" about what had happened to Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old American student taken prisoner by Kim's henchmen for 17 months. Gone were Trump's charges that Kim runs a "brutal regime," which he stated when Warmbier was returned to the Unites States in 2017-- in a coma. He died less than a week later.

The captured Indian pilot who has become the face of the gravest military crisis to engulf South Asia in two decades is expected to be released from Pakistani custody on Friday.

Two women who fled Saudi Arabia for Australia, only to become trapped in transit in Hong Kong, are seeking a last minute visa extension from the city's authorities as they try and secure a more permanent refuge.

Maria Ressa, the Philippine journalist and outspoken critic of President Rodrigo Duterte, has had her court appearance postponed, after she filed a motion to quash her controversial libel case.

After 40 Indian paramilitary soldiers were killed by a suicide attack earlier this month in Indian-controlled Kashmir, a poignant cartoon started doing rounds on Indian social media: It showed an armed Indian soldier, pressed back-to-back with a group of civilians. The civilians, giggling over their phones, appear to be pushing the soldier into battle.

HBO chief Richard Plepler announced Thursday that he is leaving the company after nearly 28 years.

A California woman who attacked a 91-year-old Mexican man with a concrete brick last year has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

A pregnant 11-year-old girl in Argentina was forced to have a C-section after she and her family had been requesting an abortion for weeks, a human rights group said.

The peaceful untouched forest north of Ukraine's capital, Kiev, is a perfect spot to enjoy the outdoors -- save for one fact.

Gap and Old Navy are splitting up.

Tesla has long promised a pared-down version of its Model 3 sedan that would be $35,000.

President Donald Trump commanded his then-chief of staff, John Kelly, to grant Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and senior presidential adviser, a top-secret security clearance despite concerns from intelligence officials, The New York Times reported Thursday, citing four people briefed on the matter.

There are about two dozen launch sites along Florida's coast that have been abandoned for years. And the future of this area looked bleak when NASA's Space Shuttle program ended in 2011.

A serene patch of eucalypt forest and pinot vines around 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Melbourne is not the first place that springs to mind when you mention alchemy.

It was meant as the sequel to rival the original -- another far-flung encounter, laced with backslapping and friendly banter alongside the world's most ruthless dictator.

The end of February also marked the end of an utterly bizarre Black History Month. It brought us what for many was a long-awaited conversation addressing the ways in which America's discussion of racial injustice has regressed by decades. In a country where Barack Obama was President, public discourse is still dominated by enduring, pernicious tropes such as blackface, cotton, and "some of my best friends are black." Notably, the blackface and cotton episodes occurred in the same state, and featured the same couple: a month that began with Virginia governor Ralph Northam facing calls for his resignation after he admitted to dressing up in blackface ended with his wife Pam under fire for handing cotton to a group of black and white children on a tour of the governor's mansion and, according to the mother of a black child in the group, asking them to imagine being slaves in the fields.

Jinshiro Motoyama is not your average political activist.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be indicted on corruption charges, pending a final hearing, Israel's Attorney General announced Thursday, in a major blow to Netanyahu as he seeks a fifth term in office.

Venezuelan opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaidó said Thursday he will return to his country by Monday, and that a dialogue with President Nicolas Maduro won't be possible without discussing elections.

Famed composer André Previn, who won four Academy Awards for his work on films like "Porgy & Bess" and "My Fair Lady," has died. He was 89.

President Donald Trump declared Thursday that US backed forces have retaken 100% of the territory once claimed by ISIS in Syria, an announcement that surprised US officials and regional allies leading the fight who told CNN the battle isn't over.

First lady of Virginia Pam Northam handed cotton to young African-American children on a tour of the governor's mansion and asked them to imagine being slaves in the fields, the mother of one of the children alleged.

When the New Horizons mission conducted the closest flyby of Pluto and its moon, Charon, in 2015, images provided a zoomed-in view of their pockmarked surfaces. The scars are ancient impact craters that were created 4 billion years ago.

In an attempt to diffuse mounting tension and days of military escalation between nuclear neighbor India, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan announced the upcoming release of a detained Indian pilot at the center of the crisis.

His mother wasn't sure if he would survive, but after spending five months in a hospital hooked up to machines, the world's smallest baby boy has finally gone home.

A UN-backed independent panel said Thursday it had "reasonable grounds" to believe Israeli soldiers may have committed war crimes and shot at journalists, health workers and children during protests in Gaza in 2018.

"Adventure. Heh! Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things," Yoda instructs Luke Skywalker in "The Empire Strikes Back."

As tensions between India and Pakistan escalate yet again with Delhi launching airstrikes on what it says was a terrorist training camp across its de facto border with Islamabad, all eyes are on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

An analysis of the genetic makeup of more than 94,000 people in the United States and Europe with clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's led to the discovery of four new genetic variants that increase risk for the neurodegenerative disease.

The UK government is launching a TV campaign to urge Britons to be ready for a no-deal Brexit, the country's top civil servant said.

As images of President Donald Trump meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un were plastered all over newspapers and TV screens, this week seems a good time to assess just how much less safe the world is in Trump's third year as President.