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A Republican politician from Illinois has angered the residents of a coastal English village by featuring a picture of its streets to depict "foreclosures, unemployment and economic recession."

A group of scientists has begun an audit of whales in the Mediterranean, using pioneering new satellite technology that allows the animals to be found and counted from space.

Russian investigators probing the failed launch of a Soyuz rocket transporting a crew to the International Space Station last month said damage to a sensor during the rocket's assembly led to the malfunction that forced an emergency landing.

Ryanair passengers are having to adapt to a new set of baggage rules.

The British government has added cannabis to the pharmacopoeia of medicines available to patients on the National Health Service.

Brace yourself Buenos Aires -- one of football's biggest and most bitter rivalries is set to write arguably its most important chapter yet.

Human rights lawyer Meaza Ashenafi was sworn in Thursday as the head of Ethiopia's Supreme Court by the country's parliament in a wave of appointments for women in top government positions.

"Why are you here?" That was the question that echoed when I visited COP Keating in 2009.

Curator and documentary filmmaker, Olga Sviblova, is a human advertisement for Russian contemporary art, a well-known champion of both young and historic artists, and a revered personality of the art world at large.

In the most racially charged national political ad in 30 years, President Donald Trump and the Republican Party accuse Democrats of plotting to help Central American invaders overrun the nation with cop killers.

Indonesia has ordered an inspection of all Boeing 737 Max 8 planes belonging to national commercial airlines, a day after Lion Air flight 610 crashed into the sea minutes after takeoff from the capital Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board.

Thousands of items owned by astronaut Neil Armstrong are set to go under the hammer this week, giving space fans the chance to own a piece of history.

You might not have heard of Real Kashmir F.C., but the small football team in northern India is making a big noise.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has voiced his support for employee protests that are expected to take place at the company's offices around the world on Thursday over its handling of sexual harassment.

It's not only the world's oldest cross-country horse race but it's also arguably the most difficult.

Dozens of refugee children and their families set to be transferred from the tiny island of Nauru won't be allowed to permanently settle in Australia, the country's Home Minister Peter Dutton said Thursday.

British diplomats who visited Xinjiang, in China's remote northwest, have confirmed reports that large numbers of Muslims are being held in so-called "vocational education centers."

The attackers who killed notorious mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger at a high-security federal prison in West Virginia tried to remove his tongue, a federal law enforcement official said.

Harrowing accounts of widespread sexual abuse allegedly carried out by North Korean officials against ordinary women have been laid out in a new report, that details evidence of a culture where officials commit acts with near total impunity.

Could this camel be sick or malnourished?

The UK government is getting tough on dirty money.

A man with a spinal-cord injury leaving him wheelchair bound has been able to walk thanks to a revolutionary new spinal implant.

The South Korean Supreme Court ruled in favor of conscientious objectors Thursday, ending the country's decades-long position as the world's leading jailer of those who refuse to join the armed forces.

These races could predict the rest of the night: CNN Political Director David Chalian points out three races that if called early, could foreshadow what will happen in the House of Representatives.

President Donald Trump tells an ABC News reporter he always wants to tell the truth, when possible.

Elvis Presley's iconic 1955 Cadillac, Marilyn Monroe in a figure-hugging dress in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and the sea of "pussyhats" that swarmed the Women's March in Washington DC earlier this year.

In the wake of a series of mailed bombs to his most serious critics and to CNN last week, President Donald Trump was visibly perturbed -- about the midterms.

The number of people killed in weather-related incidents in Italy has risen to 11, the country's Civil Protection agency said Wednesday, as officials in the flooded lagoon city of Venice warned that salt water may have caused significant damage to historic sites.

Jon Stewart has been done with "The Daily Show" for years, but he's still one of the strongest media critics around.

One of two suspects being investigated in the prison death of former mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger is a Massachusetts man named Fotios "Freddy" Geas, the Boston Globe and The New York Times have reported.

It may be painful, but there could be an unusual upside to appendicitis: Those who have had their appendix removed are 20% less likely to develop Parkinson's disease, according to a new analysis of more than 1 million people in Sweden.

For a little while on Tuesday, a document posted to The Gateway Pundit, a popular right-wing blog prone to peddling conspiracy theories, must have seemed to some of its readers like the perfect story.

The National Archives released a central set of documents from the Watergate scandal on Wednesday, including a would-be indictment against President Richard Nixon, following a lawsuit pointing to its relevance in the current era.

"This place is beautiful," says retired Japanese football star Hidetoshi Nakata. "This is like a hidden beauty of Japan."

Fast forward one week with me: The 2018 midterm elections are (mostly) over. Democrats have regained the House majority for the first time since 2010. Republicans have narrowly held onto their Senate majority, adding a single seat.

Megyn Kelly's slow-motion exit from NBC News has turned into an all-out legal battle.

President Donald Trump claimed that up to 15,000 US troops could be sent to the border to deal with the group of migrants heading toward the US through Mexico.

The United States is working to capitalize on what it regards as new leverage with Saudi Arabia to end the brutal civil war in Yemen and ease a regional standoff with Qatar, according to multiple US and diplomatic officials.

When their bodies were found last week on the banks of New York's Hudson River, the sisters wore similar black leggings and fur-trimmed jackets, with their feet and waists bound together by duct tape.

The body of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was dismembered after he was strangled upon entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul early this month, the chief prosecutor's office in Istanbul said Wednesday.

President Donald Trump went after House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday, saying one of the top Republican leaders in the President's party "knows nothing about" birthright citizenship and "should be focusing on holding the Majority" in the House of Representatives "rather than giving his opinions" on the issue.

October was a frightening month for investors around the world.

President Donald Trump makes a hard turn Wednesday from offering empathy to grief-stricken Pittsburgh to the fear and fury of a midterm election closing argument designed to drive up Republican turnout despite the risk of deepening national divides.

An Italian far-right militant who sported an "Auschwitzland" T-shirt during an extremist rally is being referred to the Polish prosecutor's office for "promotion of Nazi ideology" and "insulting the Auschwitz Memorial," a spokesman for the memorial told CNN.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump --accompanied by his wife, Melania, and his daughter and son-in-law -- traveled to Pittsburgh to offer condolences to the victims of a shooting at a Jewish synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood. He did so despite urgings from the city's mayor to postpone his trip until the funerals for the 11 victims could be completed. And despite the fact that no members of Congress joined him on the trip.

The suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre faces 44 federal charges -- most of them death penalty offenses -- in the slaying of 11 worshippers during last weekend's Shabbat services, according to a grand jury filing released Wednesday.

Pairs of small red children's shoes, women's high heels, wallets and empty backpacks line up in rows on the ground of Tanjung Priok port in North Jakarta.

With his decision to deploy more than 5,000 troops to the US-Mexico border, President Donald Trump has ordered more military personnel to the US southwest than he has serving in some of the world's most contentious combat zones.

Pakistan's Supreme Court has acquitted a Christian woman who has been on death row for almost eight years on blasphemy charges.