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Horse racing is set to resume in Britain after an outbreak of equine flu stopped the sport for six days.

I think it's safe to assume that most parents who spank their kids love them very much. I've never met one who said otherwise. However, that does not mean that spanking is an act of love or that there is such a thing as a "right way" to do it.

Doha, the capital of Qatar, has fast become the ideal travel stopover. You can pack in a lot in just a few days and come out of the tiny Gulf state feeling like you've been to an authentic, and often unique, destination.

The quick and easy noshes you love are chipping away at your mortality one nibble at a time, according to new research from France: We face a 14% higher risk of early death with each 10% increase in the amount of ultraprocessed foods we eat.

President Donald Trump can't merely slur Elizabeth Warren with the nickname "Pocahontas" anymore. That's old hat.

Refugee footballer Hakeem Al-Araibi has landed in Australia, after spending two months in a Thai jail fighting extradition to his birth nation of Bahrain.

Rikako Ikee, one of Japan's most talented swimmers and a contender for multiple medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, has been diagnosed with leukemia.

Climate activists are preparing legal action aimed at forcing Royal Dutch Shell to exit the oil business.

An Emirati woman who fled to the Republic of Macedonia has made a desperate plea for help after her asylum request was rejected by the Balkan state.

At least 17 people died in a fire that ripped through a budget hotel in the Indian capital New Delhi early Tuesday, police said.

Modern materials and traditional iconography entwine in the work of Suzanne Jongmans, who uses her skills as a costume designer and her photographer's eye to bring new meaning to household trash.

Britain's new aircraft carrier will go to the Pacific on its first operational mission, Defense Minister Gavin Williamson has revealed.

In audio tapes from an interview with alleged Russian spy Maria Butina, the gun activist shares she is shocked by how she's been treated in the US and denies being a spy. CNN's Brian Todd reports.

Congressional negotiators say they have reached an agreement in principle to avert a partial government shutdown at the end of this week.

Companies and executives around the world are desperately trying to gauge the severity of China's economic slowdown. But getting a clear picture is very difficult.

A Chinese billionaire and political donor has called Australia a "giant baby" after it revoked his permanent residency amid concerns over China's growing foreign influence.

A new Pentagon report on threats in space warns that China and Russia are both developing capabilities to threaten the US' pre-eminent position, including lasers that could target and destroy US satellites.

Google Maps wants to make it easier for people find their way in busy urban spaces, and it thinks large cartoon arrows can help.

Parents in a remote Russian archipelago are scared to send their children to school after a "mass invasion" of polar bears into residential areas, state news agency TASS reported.

CNN's Bill Weir went to Isle de Jean Charles on the Louisiana coast as residents grapple with moving their community inland as water levels surrounding the island continue to rise.

Democrats are entering the 2020 election cycle with many of their leading presidential contenders increasingly willing to break with a pro-Israel foreign policy orthodoxy that guided the party for a generation.

Not long after it published a glossy magazine touting Saudi Arabia and its crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, American Media Inc. — otherwise best known as the company behind the National Enquirer — appears to have gone to the Justice Department with a question: Had the fawning publication made American Media a foreign agent?

A Massachusetts judge on Monday ordered Michelle Carter to start serving her sentence for persuading her boyfriend to kill himself in 2014.

A pair of public health experts has called for Facebook to be more transparent in the way it screens posts for suicide risk and to follow certain ethical guidelines, including informed consent among users.

About a third of Americans say blackface is sometimes OK for a Halloween costume, according to a Pew Research Center poll that reveals divides on the issue among political lines.

A fossilized mucus trail led to the discovery of the oldest evidence for mobility on Earth, dating to 2.1 billion years ago, according to a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Since 1998, about 380 Southern Baptist leaders and volunteers have faced allegations of sexual misconduct, according to a sweeping investigation by two Texas newspapers.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stood before a big crowd celebrating the Islamic Revolution's 40th anniversary on Monday and vowed to boost his country's military and ballistic missile program, defying US pressure and sanctions.

Hakeem Al-Araibi, the refugee footballer detained in Thailand, will be freed from prison after Bahrain Monday made the shock decision to drop its extradition case.

As the assault to retake ISIS's last enclave of territory in Syria continues, the top US general overseeing the fight against the terror group warned Monday that if the terror group loses that fight it "doesn't mean the end of the organization."

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stood before a big crowd celebrating the Islamic Revolution's 40th anniversary on Monday and vowed to boost his country's military and ballistic missile program, defying US pressure and sanctions.

A year after enduring its worst ever set of results in a Six Nations championship, England has started the 2019 tournament at a canter.

Dozens of supporters of President Donald Trump's border security efforts formed a human wall Saturday across a small part of the southern border where there is no fencing.

It's now days before another government shutdown -- and this is the day bipartisan negotiators were supposed to announce a deal to avert just that.

Nearly one hundred children have died since the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo started last year -- and the crisis is gathering pace, with the number of new cases doubling last month, according to charity Save the Children.

Jury deliberations in the trial of Mexican druglord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán stretched into a second week Monday as jurors worked their way through the nearly two and a half months of testimony.

The red carpet for the premiere of "Cold Pursuit" was canceled this week after the film's lead actor, Liam Neeson, revealed during a press junket that he once considered carrying out a racist revenge attack because someone close to him said she had been raped by a black person.

What more is there to say about Nelson Mandela, the Nobel Prize-winning icon of the anti-Apartheid struggle?

It was more than just a golden hour for country singer Kacey Musgraves; she had a golden night.

Insect populations are declining precipitously worldwide due to pesticide use and other factors, with a potentially "catastrophic" effect on the planet, a study has warned.

America could be sliding toward a new government shutdown and President Donald Trump may face a fateful choice over his border wall as another knife-edge week opens in Washington.

The biggest names in music came together on Sunday night for the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.

"We're going to talk about this. I know you don't want to, and it sucks right now, but tell me about him."

Two Nigerian electoral commission offices housing voting materials were burned down within the space of a week -- just a few days before the country's presidential election, the nation's electoral body said Sunday.

"Roma" and "The Favourite" won big at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards on Sunday.

Just when you thought superyacht designs couldn't get any more extravagant, along comes one to blow the others clean out of the water.

If it is true that no individual is bigger than any club, then perhaps Johan Cruyff comes closest to challenging the old cliché.

Hong Kong-native Joyce Ng and South Korean-born Hanna Moon are both London-based, Asian, millennial fashion photographers who have shot for titles like Dazed, i-D and British Vogue. But, if you ask them, that's where their similarities end.

Malaysians will have to wait a little longer for their trial of the century.