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President Trump and first lady Melania Trump spent their Christmas Eve in Washington, accepting calls through NORAD from children asking about the location of Santa Claus.

Five people have been killed after a hijacked bus drove into pedestrians in the southeastern Chinese city of Longyan in Fujian province, authorities said Tuesday.

With Defense Secretary James Mattis on his way out two months earlier than planned, Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan will take the reins of the government's largest and most complex agency with no military and foreign policy experience.

Lauren McCluskey was both concerned and frustrated when she called Salt Lake City Police on October 19.

Former Disney actor Stoney Westmoreland has been charged with alleged attempts to have sex with a 13-year-old boy, according to an indictment.

Gunmen armed with machine guns stormed the foreign ministry of Libya's internationally recognized government in Tripoli on Tuesday, killing one person, an eyewitness told CNN.

Hundreds of well-wishers greeted the British royal family as they attended Christmas mass on the Sandringham estate.

Syrian Air Defenses intercepted and downed "a number of hostile targets" over the western countryside of Damascus on Tuesday, according to the Syrian state-run news agency SANA.

Thailand's interim parliament voted to allow the use of medical cannabis, one of the senators who worked on the bill told CNN on Tuesday. Recreational use of the drug remains illegal.

Greg Kelly, the US businessman accused of helping Carlos Ghosn under-report his income at Nissan, has been granted bail in Japan.

Actor Kevin Spacey will be charged with indecent assault and battery, stemming from an incident that took place at a Nantucket, Massachusetts restaurant in 2016, Cape & Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe announced Monday.

In President Donald Trump's Christmas Day telling, the drugs are flowing over the border, the Federal Reserve is imperiling the economy and the Democrats are preparing to harass him with oversight requests.

Three people were killed and 13 others wounded when a car bomb exploded in an outdoor market in the city of Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq on Tuesday, according to the Iraqi military. ISIS claimed responsibility for the blast.

Anti-government protesters in Sudan faced a violent crackdown Tuesday in the capital of Khartoum, marking the seventh day of demonstrations that have rocked the northern African country.

The UK monarch has remained carefully and deliberately neutral on all political matters in her 66 years on the throne.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday the government won't reopen until funding is secured for his border barrier, and he plans to go to the border in January to visit a new stretch of wall.

Pope Francis pleaded for fraternity "among individuals of every nation and culture" in his annual Christmas message at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.

Wall Street's Christmas rout has spilled into Asia.

2019 will be the year of growing rifts.

At least 43 people were killed and 25 were injured Monday during a a seven-hour assault that began with a car bomb at a government building in the Afghan capital, authorities said.

The United Arab Emirates has released pictures of a daughter of Dubai's billionaire ruler, who hadn't been seen publicly since she attempted to flee abroad earlier this year.

The new governor of the Mexican state of Puebla and her politician husband were killed Monday in a helicopter crash in central Mexico, according to the head of their political party.

The Iraqi Cabinet approved a law to mark Christmas Day, December 25, as an official holiday across the country "on the occasion of the birth of Jesus Christ," according to a statement released by the Iraqi government.

Here's where to find the best beaches on the continent or nearby that are great to visit almost all year round.

Sitting on the edge of the world, Sydney is heralded as one of the world's greatest cities for a reason.

The guessing days are over.

Markets took a wild ride on Monday after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's attempts to calm investors backfired.

The two sailors had been stranded on their boat for nearly 3 weeks. They were adrift and out of fuel, low on fresh water, and surviving off what fish they managed to catch.

Facing pressure from President Donald Trump to stabilize nervous equity markets, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin publicly declared this weekend that his boss wasn't planning to fire the Federal Reserve chairman and that markets have enough liquidity for lending.

As the threat of more deadly tsunamis casts a pall of fear over Indonesia, the country's National Disaster Mitigation Agency said Monday that more than 5,600 people are displaced.

Actor Kevin Spacey released a video as his "House of Cards" character as news broke that charges have been filed against him for indecent assault and battery, stemming from a 2016 incident.

Few who work at senior levels in the administration of President Donald Trump leave with their reputations unsullied. James Mattis is one of the few, Peter Bergen writes.

A surgery center is warning more than 3,000 patients that they may have been exposed to bloodborne pathogens if they had a procedure at its ambulatory in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, between January and September 2018.

A federal judge in Washington awarded the parents of Otto Warmbier more than half a billion dollars in a wrongful death suit against the North Korean government, which detained and allegedly tortured the college student over 17 months before returning him to the US last year, where he died days later.

It's Christmas in America: The President is home alone in the White House, ranting at his foes inside and outside an administration lurching deeper into crisis; stock markets are in free fall and the government is paralyzed by a partial shutdown.

Sen. Claire McCaskill has some advice for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the incoming freshman who has rapidly risen from obscurity to one of the most well-known figures in the Democratic Party: Talk is cheap.

President Donald Trump denied Monday that he had lashed out at acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker over developments in the case of Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, as CNN reported last week.

President Donald Trump took full ownership of the stock market boom. That unusual strategy is backfiring now that markets are crumbling.

Wall Street, markets and business crave certainty. For the past month, they have been contending with confusion and disorder.

A cheeky promise, to be sure, but Thomas Bjorn has indeed followed through on getting ink on his bum.

A tsunami that struck Indonesian coastlines without warning Saturday night killed at least 222 people and left hundreds of others injured or missing, officials said.

Mount Etna -- Europe's highest and most active volcano -- erupted on Monday, causing a magnitude 3.3 earthquake and the closure of Sicily's Catania Airport.

The leaders of Israel's coalition government decided on Monday to dissolve the Knesset and hold early elections in April, seven months earlier than required by law.

The disaster hit without warning.

LeBron James has apologized after posting song lyrics on Instagram that included the phrase "getting that Jewish money."

British police are carrying out a forensic examination of a damaged drone that was found near London's Gatwick Airport, as they investigate the cause of incidents that caused widespread disruption.

As the British government ramps up contingency plans for leaving the European Union without a negotiated deal in place, prominent Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg stated on Twitter that such an outcome "is not the end of the world."