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A day after Indonesian Lion Air flight 610 crashed into the sea minutes after takeoff from the capital Jakarta, questions are being asked as to what caused the new Boeing jet to suddenly lose altitude, killing all 189 people on board.

China's battered currency is trading at its lowest point since the global financial crisis, leaving investors asking how much farther it might fall.

As the US turns in on itself in the age of Donald Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is viewed by many as the current leader of the free world.

The man suspected of sending 14 pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and CNN around the country was formally charged in court Monday.

On Monday morning, President Donald Trump tweeted this:

A Lion Air flight capable of carrying up to 189 passengers has crashed during a short flight from the Indonesian capital Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang, according to Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency.

Eight individuals dressed in Ku Klux Klan uniforms posed for photographs outside an Islamic center in Northern Ireland on Sunday evening, sparking condemnation from politicians and Muslim leaders.

An Israeli airstrike killed three young Palestinian teenagers near the fence that separates Gaza and Israel on Sunday evening, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

It was a heartbreakingly happy Facebook post.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced she will give up leadership of her center-right Christian Democrat Union (CDU) party after 18 years in the post, German media has reported.

Brazil has embraced Trumpism --- and then some.

On a bitterly cold Sunday outside the King Power Stadium, Bernie Webster tried in vain to hold back the tears.

Under crisp blue skies, about 1,000 well-wishers turned out at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo Monday to catch a glimpse of Japan's Princess Ayako and her groom Kei Moriya on their wedding day.

One person has been killed in Sri Lanka after the bodyguards of a deposed government minister opened fire on a crowd of protestors amid a worsening constitutional crisis.

Total domination is complete. The Boston Red Sox, Major League Baseball's best team from start to finish in 2018, are World Series champions.

Jubilant supporters of Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro took the streets of Rio de Janeiro on Sunday after the far-right congressman was declared the winner of the country's presidential election by a wide margin.

Standing in front of her parish in a bright yellow jacket, Shin Ok-joo holds back tears. Her voice takes on a tone of both anger and sadness.

The beloved owner of Leicester City Football Club died in a helicopter crash on Saturday near the club's stadium in Leicester, England, the club said Sunday.

At Tokyo's Meiji Shrine, it's not unusual for visitors to catch a glimpse of a traditional wedding, the couple led in procession by Shinto priests under a large red umbrella. Located within the tranquil Yoyogi Park, the famed shrine has long been a popular wedding spot, with about a dozen daily ceremonies conducted there over the year's busiest weekends.

Lewis Hamilton clinched his fifth F1 world championship with a fourth-placed finish in Sunday's Mexican Grand Prix won by Red Bull's Max Verstappen.

The Pittsburgh Steelers familiar logo was altered online to include the Star of David, along with the phrase "stronger than hate," and has been shared across social media.

Less than 24 hours after authorities arrested a man accused of terrorizing the nation with mail bombs, another man, shouting anti-Semitic slurs and armed with an AR-15 assault rifle and three handguns, opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday, killing 11 people and injuring six. The suspect, Robert D. Bowers, 46, was captured at the synagogue.

Consider the past week in America.

Over the last several days, our nation has had to thank the brave men and women of law enforcement for truly heroic and selfless acts in preventing, and responding to, unspeakable acts of violence motivated by deranged haters.

CNN's Victor Blackwell discusses the impact the Squirrel Hill synagogue shooting had on the Pittsburgh community with Megan Guza, a staff writer for "The Pittsburgh Tribune Review."

Before Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, stepped out in a silk Givenchy wedding dress to marry Prince Harry, the public spent months guessing who would have the honor of designing the royal gown.

Brazilians on Sunday will elect the country's next President amid one of the most polarizing and violent political campaigns in its history.

Thousands of people staged a sit-in overlooking Rome's ancient forum Saturday to protest what they call the city's degradation under the populist Five Star Movement.

Voters in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province are going to the polls Saturday in legislative elections that were postponed for a week after an attack that claimed the life of the province's police chief.

Counting is underway Saturday in Ireland after voters cast their ballots in a presidential poll and a referendum on removing the offense of blasphemy from the constitution.

Eighteen Saudis are being investigated on the charge of "intentional homicide with premeditation" and torture over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a senior Turkish official with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.

Millions of voters will soon go to the polls across the US, but they won't be picking a president. The impact of the midterm elections, however, could be almost as significant.

The fiancée of the late Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi declined an invitation from President Donald Trump to visit the White House, she said Friday.

At the UK's Observer newspaper, there was a picture on the wall that I revered and feared, when I worked there as a young gopher in London in the late 1990s.

The small English cathedral city of Salisbury at the center of an international investigation into the Novichok poisonings is once again in the spotlight.

A man whose foul-mouthed outburst onboard a budget European flight made headlines around the world has apologized, saying he is not a racist.

Police have identified a Ross Geller lookalike whose alleged robbery prompted thousands of online comments and a denial from "Friends" star David Schwimmer himself.

The nationwide manhunt for a serial bombmaker targeting prominent Democrats ended with the arrest of a South Florida man on Friday.

Eleven-week-old Thet Htar Angel still hasn't met her father.

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, which devastated parts of the Big Island when it erupted earlier this year, tops a new list from the US Geological Survey ranking the most threatening volcanoes in the United States.

Federal authorities have arrested a man in connection with the suspected explosive packages discovered this week, the Justice Department announced Friday.

Gaza militants fired a barrage of rockets into Israel on Friday evening, triggering red-alert sirens across the Gaza periphery into the early morning hours. More than a dozen rockets were fired from Gaza, many of which were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome aerial defense system, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, are spearheading a charm offensive by the British royal family in Australia -- and the country can't get enough of them.