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At least nine people were injured, one seriously, when a car plowed into crowds celebrating New Year's Eve in a central part of Tokyo, according to police.

A baby boy was plucked alive Tuesday from the rubble of an apartment building leveled a day earlier by a suspected gas explosion in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk.

Jadon McDonald studies the picture book and reads the words aloud: my, he, she, the. He pours on the charm, using a deep-throated caveman voice and flashing a huge smile after each word.

As 2018 unfolded and details of how Brexit might ultimately play out became clearer, political differences that have existed for years between the United Kingdom's four nations were dragged into the open. Bluntly, Brexit has shone a light on the fact that the foundations holding up the UK had been crumbling for some time.

Bollywood star Kader Khan has died in hospital in Canada at the age of 81 following a prolonged illness.

As people are ringing in the new year on Earth, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will be conducting a flyby of Ultima Thule, a Kuiper Belt object more than 4 billion miles away. The object is so old and pristine that it's essentially like going back in time to the beginning of our solar system.

Comedian Louis C.K. is in hot water again, this time for seeming to make fun of survivors of the Parkland school shooting and their effort for stricter gun control.

US Strategic Command, the unified military force that controls the launch of nuclear weapons, tweeted an unusual New Years Eve message on Monday featuring B-2 bombers dropping 30,000- pound conventional weapons at a test range.

President Donald Trump will give the Pentagon about four months to withdraw the nearly 2,000 military personnel stationed in Syria, The New York Times reported Monday, citing administration officials.

A speech Omar al-Bashir made to police on Sunday was taken by protesters as a sign that the Sudanese President had declared open season on them. But his tactics and the language are not new.

2018 was a record-setting year for stocks, but it's one investors would rather forget.

Jair Bolsonaro will be inaugurated Tuesday as the fifth elected president since Brazil returned to democracy after the 1964-85 military dictatorship that Bolsonaro himself once praised.

Kenya is the latest country where China is frantically defusing a public relations storm over President Xi Jinping's signature Belt and Road megaproject.

President Donald Trump on Monday defended his decision to withdraw US troops from Syria, saying he is "just doing what I said I was going to do" during his presidential campaign.

A trip to the already pricey city of Venice, Italy, will now leave your wallet even emptier than before. Venetian officials have announced plans to charge day visitors up to $11 (€10) to enter.

Global stocks have closed out a dreadful year with a whimper, signaling more potential declines in 2019.

Driving beyond South Africa's Limpopo province, into the village of Chivadini, people and grassland are scarce. But the oldest living organisms in Africa -- baobab trees -- are abundant.

An opposition leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo has complained of voting irregularities following Sunday's long-awaited presidential elections.

Russia has detained a US citizen on the suspicion of spying, according to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).

At least three people are dead and dozens missing after an explosion in an apartment building in southern Russia, state media reported.

Vatican spokesman Greg Burke and his deputy, Paloma Garcia Ovejero, have resigned, an official Vatican statement announced Monday.

Scores of people have been killed after a powerful storm swept through the Philippines over the weekend.

Over the past year, special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation has circled closer to President Donald Trump, surfacing new revelations about links between Russia and people in the President's orbit during the 2016 campaign and transition.

At the beginning of 2018, Africa watchers were still reeling from the departure of Robert Mugabe. The Zimbabwe leader's 37-year tenure had been figuratively bayoneted by his own army in an apparent coup.

At least two people were killed and dozens wounded in an explosion outside a shopping mall in the southern Philippines Monday.

South Korea is joining a growing list of countries attempting to halt the use of disposable plastic shopping bags.

At least 15 people were killed in election-related clashes in Bangladesh on Sunday, local police officials told CNN.

Kim Jong Un shocked the world in 2018 by transforming his image from nuclear-armed tyrant to global statesman.

It's back on. Or so it would seem.

Last year Ifeanyi Ugokwe was arrested and locked up for weeks. His crime: he tried to take his own life.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has claimed he molested a maid while in high school -- comments his spokesman later said were "made up."

A lion killed a worker Sunday at a North Carolina zoological park after it escaped a locked enclosure during a routine cleaning, officials said.

Manchester City plays catch up to swaggering Liverpool... Bama prepares to meet Clemson (again)... Bones makes dream UFC comeback... Cameron Bancroft struggles in his return from the wilderness... Federer warms up for Australian Open with effortless Hopman Cup win. This is your weekend sporting roundup.

A fisherman returning to land in Monroe County, Florida, pulled almost 60 pounds of suspected cocaine out of the water on Saturday morning.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Sunday that withdrawing US troops from Syria could directly result in the deaths of Kurdish people there and that he plans to make a case to President Donald Trump today to reconsider his plans.

Smarting from a run of defeats that undermined its English Premier League title defense, Manchester City eased past struggling Southampton Sunday to end the year on a high note.

Gen. James Mattis' resignation triggered an outpouring of anxiety and anger and a steady stream of kudos for the 68-year-old, but as the shock of his departure begins to ebb, another narrative about the "warrior monk" is emerging.

The State Department, Department of Defense and national security adviser John Bolton all issued public statements Friday that collectively outlined a road map for implementing President Donald Trump's decision to pull US troops out of Syria, a move the President has adamantly defended after more than a week of criticism and signs of conflict within the administration's highest levels.

A "partial equipment failure" involving a jet bridge at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) in Maryland on Saturday left six people injured.

Mikaela Shiffrin began 2018 with a New Year's Day victory in Oslo, she ended it with the most World Cup wins by any competitor in a calendar year and surpassing her childhood idol as the most successful female slalom skier in history.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) vehemently disagrees with CNN's Dana Bash about why former President Obama pulled troops out of Iraq.

Redemption when it came was so sweet.

A sailor who won his ship's homecoming kiss, a longtime Navy tradition, is receiving backlash for sharing the moment with his same-sex spouse.

Citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo headed to the polls Sunday for a long-delayed presidential election originally scheduled to be held in 2016.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a rare personal letter to his South Korean counterpart, President Moon Jae-in, expressing his willingness to meet again in 2019 and discuss denuclearization on the divided peninsula.

A senior UK government minister has warned there is a "50-50" chance Brexit won't happen, if Prime Minister Theresa May's deal is voted down in Parliament next month.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia was "open to dialogue" with the US in a holiday message to President Donald Trump.

It's almost 6pm in a rundown area of Budapest, and the Aurora community centre is shifting into its evening groove.