CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition

The number of young individuals admitted to hospital with wounds inflicted by knives or sharp objects has soared by more than half in England, according to official figures released by the National Health Service (NHS).

After months of simmering tensions between Rome and Paris, the battle for the soul of Europe just got a lot uglier. On Thursday, France recalled its ambassador to Rome for the first time since 1940, when fascist leader Benito Mussolini declared war. This time the French foreign ministry blamed a war of words -- "the repeated accusations, baseless attacks and outlandish claims" of Italy's populist government.

A no-deal Brexit ferry contract awarded to a company with no ferries has been canceled by the UK government after the firm's backer, an Irish shipping company, pulled out.

When Donald Tusk, President of the EU Council, tweeted on Wednesday that there was a "special place in hell" for those who promoted Brexit without a plan, the reaction from certain corners of London was furious.

Nigel Farage, who was the most prominent campaigner for Britain to leave the European Union, has backed a new pro-Brexit party approved by the UK's Electoral Commission.

The number of people confirmed dead after a multistory residential building collapsed in Istanbul has climbed to 16, Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported Saturday.

For more than 60 years, a protracted civil war has simmered across Myanmar, largely hidden from the outside world.

President Donald Trump announced that his second summit with himself and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will take place in Hanoi, Vietnam, February 27 and 28.

Billions of dollars in allegedly misappropriated funds. Millions spent on luxury handbags and jewelry. One hit movie, two mediocre comedies, a swanky New York condo, a $250 million yacht and a Picasso. Leonardo DiCaprio, Paris Hilton, Miranda Kerr and Lindsay Lohan.

A Facebook photograph shows a black dog sitting in a house, looking toward a clump of trees as the sun starts to set. It's a picture that leaves a sense of a dog waiting patiently for its owner to return.

The death of a 10-year-old girl, allegedly at the hands of her abusive father after authorities failed to respond to pleas for help, has prompted soul searching in Japan as the country comes to terms with a record number of child abuse cases.

A man who opened fire at a Quebec City mosque, killing six people in 2017, has been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years.

On Thursday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took the extraordinary step of posting a personal essay alleging that the National Enquirer offered to bury embarrassing personal photos of him -- stemming from an extramarital affair -- if an investigator working for Bezos would stop referring to the alleged "politically motivated" nature of the leak pictures.

Former Nixon White House counsel John Dean criticized Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker as being in over his head while giving testimony during a House Judicial Committee oversight hearing.

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told a top aide in 2017 that he would use "a bullet" on Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to a New York Times report citing US and foreign officials with direct knowledge of intelligence reports.

Almost a year after a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned in the British town of Salisbury, fresh evidence uncovered by the investigative website Bellingcat appears to place one of the suspects in the vicinity of another series of poisonings in Bulgaria in 2015.

A Thai political party has nominated the king's sister as its candidate for prime minister in March elections -- an unprecedented move that could upend the political landscape and give the revered monarchy an overt role in politics.

Ten people have died and at least three others have been injured after a fire broke out at the youth training ground of Brazilian football club Flamengo on Friday, according to state-run news agency Agencia Brazil.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) challenged the House Oversight Committee to a "lightning round game," shedding light on the US financial system and political corruption.

An American Airlines pilot has been arrested on suspicion of being drunk a few minutes before he was scheduled to take off from the UK's Manchester Airport.

Kellyanne Conway says that she was grabbed and shaken by a woman while out with her teenage daughter in a Maryland restaurant late last year.

Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio has declared rape and sexual violence a "national emergency," following a series of cases involving minors in the country.

In an explosive tell-all blog post published Thursday afternoon, Jeff Bezos accused the publisher of the National Enquirer of trying to extort him.

When John "J.J." Berdon joined Ireland's semi-state peat harvesting company in 1980, he thought he had a job for life.

For Qin Taixiao, old age is a time of loneliness and back-breaking labor.

A five-year-old girl has been abducted, raped and murdered in the Indian city of Mumbai -- the latest in a series of sexual attacks on women and young girls to shock the country.

Jamal Khashoggi was murdered more than four months ago, but his memory is still very much alive among press freedom advocates.

US authorities have confiscated almost a billion dollars' worth of methamphetamine bound for Australia in the largest-ever seizure of the drug on American soil, Australian police announced Friday after a joint operation.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has hired officials with experience at the National Security Council to help with its oversight of President Donald Trump's administration, according to a committee aide.

The government of embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has blocked a bridge on the Colombia-Venezuela border amid rising tensions over opposition plans to bring humanitarian aid into the crisis-stricken country.

The body of missing footballer Emiliano Sala has been identified, Dorset Police have confirmed

Juan Guaido spent his entire adult life living under the promises of a socialist utopia, first under Hugo Chavez, then Nicolas Maduro. Now as he battles for Venezuela's presidency, the 35-year-old has adopted the early campaign slogan and stylings of a US president.

As House Democrats begin the long process of getting access to President Donald Trump's tax returns, one mystery looms: Where are they, exactly?

Óscar Arias, former Costa Rican president and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, has been accused of inappropriate sexual conduct by two women.

A 20-year-old Chinese student was sentenced to a year in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to illegally taking pictures at a key US defense intelligence facility in Florida.

When it comes to averting another government shutdown over border security, every day that negotiations on Capitol Hill don't fall apart is a good day.

Carlos Ghosn, the former chairman and CEO of Renault, may have benefited personally from the French carmaker's funding of renovation work at the Palace of Versailles by holding his wedding reception there.

All along, the White House had hoped that President Donald Trump's torment over Russia would end with Robert Mueller's final report.

In the nine months since Meghan Markle married Prince Harry, the American former actress has been subjected to an almost daily onslaught of hostile stories in parts of the British media.

There are 50 days to go until Britain leaves the European Union and still no one knows how it will happen, if at all.

Germany is moving to break up Facebook's dominant position in gathering data about social media users.

Two years after the UK voted to leave the EU, its only overland border has brought Brexit negotiations to a halt, thanks to something called the backstop. So what is it?

Award-winning journalist Maria Ressa has been indicted for a second time, in a move widely criticized by rights groups as an attempt to stifle press freedoms in the Philippines.

A body was recovered from the wreckage of a plane found in the English Channel during the search for Cardiff City player Emiliano Sala and the plane's pilot, authorities said Wednesday.

Gucci has apologized for and discontinued selling a sweater that social media users said resembles blackface because of its design.