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Lindsey Vonn was never going to slip quietly into the sunset.

The audience erupted in cheers when former first lady Michelle Obama made a surprise appearance at the 2019 Grammy Awards. Hear her unifying message about music.

The top US commander in the war against ISIS aligned himself Sunday with the US intelligence community assessment that there are "tens of thousands" of ISIS fighters spread across Syria and Iraq.

Two Southampton fans have been detained by police after apparently mocking the death of Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala, during a match between the two teams on Saturday.

Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan landed in Afghanistan for an unannounced visit Monday amid increasing uncertainty about the future of the longest-running US war in history.

Knife crime offenders in London will be tagged with GPS tracking devices after leaving prison, the city's mayor, Sadiq Khan, said Monday, as the UK capital attempts to curb the growing problem of violent crime on its streets.

Officials have disqualified a Thai princess from running for prime minister in next month's general election after her brother, King Maha Vajiralongkorn, said her nomination would be "inappropriate."

When Sina Ghanbari took to Tehran's streets during nationwide demonstrations at the beginning of 2018, he was speaking out against corruption, a sluggish economy and soaring fuel and food prices.

The United States sailed two warships close to disputed islands in the South China Sea on Monday (Sunday night, ET) , a move that is bound to draw the ire of Beijing.

Turkey has denounced Beijing's controversial mass "re-education" camps in China's western region of Xinjiang, calling them a "great shame for humanity."

Last May, Australian Liz Walsh, her husband and their two-year-old twins, moved into a 30-story apartment block in an upmarket residential area near Hong Kong's financial and business district.

The UK has signed an agreement with Switzerland ensuring the trading relationship between the two nations will continue after Brexit, the British government said.

President Donald Trump might be in jail by the time Election Day comes around, Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said on her first full day of campaigning as a declared presidential candidate.

The 2019 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) act as the last major red carpet fashion event for the film industry before the grand finale, the Oscars, later this month.

Border security negotiations, for days considered on the path to a weekend agreement, have not progressed, and members on both sides have started to discuss whether backstop alternatives to prevent another government shutdown are necessary, three sources involved told CNN.

England backed up last weekend's impressive Six Nations win over reigning champions Ireland by thrashing France 44-8 in London Sunday.

Election Day 2020 may still be a long way off -- 632 days to be exact -- but Donald Trump's re-election prospects are looking more challenging by the day. And I don't just mean because Trump has the highest disapproval rating (55.1%) of any modern-day president at this point in his presidency -- except for Ronald Reagan (55.5%) (Keep in mind Reagan was in the middle of a recession at the time in 1982.)

A British Member of Parliament has faced cross-party commendation and calls to resign after blocking a law that would increase protections for children vulnerable to female genital mutilation (FGM).

Days before her body was found inside a suitcase near a Connecticut road, Valerie Reyes called her mother terrified someone would kill her.

Editor's note: Celeste Olalquiaga is a cultural historian with a PhD from Columbia University and the author of "Megalopolis" (1992) and "The Artificial Kingdom" (1998). In 2013, she founded Proyecto Helicoide to draw attention to the modern ruin of El Helicoide, in Caracas, Venezuela, a project that has produced exhibitions and fueled "Downward Spiral: El Helicoide's Descent from Mall to Prison" (2018). The views expressed in this article are her own.

Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said Sunday that "we can't be fooled into thinking" a withdrawal of US troops from Syria would mean that ISIS wouldn't reconstitute again in the country.

A video of a gym teacher fixing a student's ponytail drew mixed reaction on social media.

At least two people were killed and more than 50 others injured when more than 100 vehicles piled up in China on Saturday, according to state-run broadcaster CGTN.

The Trump administration's clumsy efforts to protect Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, after the death of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi highlight yet another instance of the bizarre nature of the people in the President's orbit.

Fighters from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have launched an assault to oust ISIS from its last remaining enclave in Syria, the final remnant of the jihadist group's so-called "caliphate."

Jesus Eugenio Ramos Rodriguez was at breakfast Saturday morning when he became the second journalist murdered in Mexico this year.

She's sitting in a crowded subway car, zipping through email messages on her phone and minding her own business when it appears: a photo of a man's penis.

The much-anticipated plans for the garden co-designed by the Duchess of Cambridge for the 2019 Chelsea Flower Show in London have been unveiled.

"Saturday Night Live" weighed in on the blackface controversy surrounding Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and the state's attorney general, Mark Herring.

A series of artworks purportedly by Adolf Hitler went on auction on Saturday in the German city of Nuremberg, the same location where the Nazi trials took place in 1945.

Her face covered by a black veil, with just a slit for her eyes, Dura looks like dozens of other black-clad women clustered on blankets with their children, all former subjects of ISIS's crumbling caliphate in Syria.

At about 6 p.m. Saturday, as darkness crept over eastern Syria, Kurdish forces backed by US-led coalition aircraft and using artillery and heavy machine guns began an assault of the last ISIS enclave in the country.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen on Saturday denied supplying Iranian-backed Houthi militia and al Qaeda-linked fighters with US-made weapons, according to a report from Saudi state media.

The Duke of Edinburgh has surrendered his driving license, Buckingham Palace announced on Saturday, weeks after the 97-year-old was involved in a car crash that left a female driver injured.

Democrats finally have a bully pulpit of their own: the House of Representatives.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren will officially launch her 2020 presidential campaign Saturday with a rally in Lawrence, Massachusetts, using the backdrop of Everett Mills -- the site of a historic 1912 labor strike led by women and immigrants -- to highlight the ​progressive populist ideals she has made the centerpiece of her candidacy.

Former Fleetwood Mac singer and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham has undergone emergency open heart surgery that has resulted in vocal cord damage.

President Donald Trump refused to meet a legal mandate Friday to tell Congress whether the White House thinks Saudi Arabia's crown prince is personally responsible for the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

In the final race of his career, Aksel Lund Svindal made sure his last downhill was a knee-knocking thriller.

After a bruising and unexpected defeat to England in Dublin last week, Ireland belatedly got the defense of its Six Nations title underway with a hard fought 22-13 win over Scotland at Murrayfield.

An endangered Sumatran tiger was mauled to death at London Zoo on Friday, just moments after it was introduced to a potential mate for the first time.

A clarifying week in Washington showed how ugly the war of oversight between President Donald Trump and House Democrats will become and dug new battle lines in the most intense exchanges yet of the 2020 campaign.

Jeff Bezos' stunning accusation that the National Enquirer tried to blackmail him mentioned the close ties between the paper's publisher, David Pecker, and President Donald Trump -- and a second, less well-known connection.

As far as ideas for boosting ticket sales go, it's nakedly ambitious.

Pornography may soon be considered a public health crisis in Arizona -- depending on the fate of a resolution in the state.

Up-and-coming UK rapper Cadet was killed in a car crash in England's West Midlands region in the early hours of Saturday, police said.

The red brick slum trips down the hillsides of eastern Caracas, and stumbles to a halt at a highway that separates the poor from the rest of Venezuela's capital.