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Culturally, the postpartum body is a source of abiding fascination. We are enthusiastic observers of women's shapes after childbirth and celebrate those who shed all evidence of pregnancy a few months after having a baby. These are the women who, as tabloids put it, "bounce back," even though few believe that the effort involved was akin to bouncing or any such rapid and organic movement.

Two former foes are joining forces to oust Malaysia's sitting prime minister, although whether their unlikely alliance can topple the incumbent in next week's general election remains to be seen.

All eyes are on the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) right now, where South Korea's President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met in April and vowed to bring peace to the peninsula.

Fierce winds and lightening strikes created by a powerful dust storm have killed at least 81 people in northwestern India since late Wednesday, according to local authorities.

Rudy Giuliani's revelation in an interview with Sean Hannity Wednesday night that Donald Trump reimbursed his personal attorney Michael Cohen for a $130,000 hush payment to a porn star alleging an extramarital affair with the president was a massive bombshell.

When a caravan of Central American migrants recently showed up at the US border, many wondered what their odds of getting asylum would be.

'Feel the view' turns the image outside a car's window into a drawing made from vibrations.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, was paid via a monthly retainer and that the hush agreement into which Cohen entered with Stormy Daniels had "nothing to do with the campaign."

On Wednesday night, in the unlikeliest of places -- the cozy conservative comfort of Sean Hannity's show on Fox News -- the web of stories constructed by President Donald Trump and those around him to explain a $130,000 hush payment to porn star Stormy Daniels came tumbling down.

A 132-pound ovarian tumor was removed from a 38-year-old Connecticut woman this year, according to two doctors involved in the case.

Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski are no longer members of one of Hollywood's most important organizations.

Three Americans held in a North Korean prison are set to be released, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday that she could not "verify the validity" of an NBC report that President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen was wiretapped by federal investigators.

Hundreds of small earthquakes in Hawaii are shaking the eastern side of Big Island, prompting concerns that Kilauea Volcano could erupt.

Donald Trump and Robert Mueller look ready to go to war.

With one of former President Bill Clinton's impeachment-era lawyers headed back to the White House, this time to help President Donald Trump cope with Robert Mueller's investigation, it's worth asking: What can Trump learn from the Clinton White House's misadventures?

Two black men whose arrest last month at a Starbucks spurred allegations of racial bias say they're happy with the settlements they've reached with the city of Philadelphia and the company -- and that they hope the incident is remembered for positive outcomes such as an anticipated program to encourage young entrepreneurs.

The former California police officer believed to be the Golden State Killer is to appear in court Thursday as his lawyers seek to block prosecutors' efforts to collect more of his DNA in their investigation of 12 murders and more than 50 rapes in the 1970s and 1980s.

Stem cells have the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types. Now, using mouse stem cells instead of the usual sperm and egg, scientists have created a structure like a blastocyst -- an early embryo.

One brazen attack; nine journalists dead.

Alexander Hamilton, once relegated to being "that guy on the $20 bill," is now a huge draw, thanks to the Tony Award-winning musical inspired by his life.

Carbon dioxide (CO2), the No. 1 greenhouse gas leading to man-made global warming, has reached a dubious new milestone.

At least 100 people have died and nearly 260,000 have been displaced by flooding in Kenya this month, the Kenyan Red Cross announced Thursday.

Loyalty means Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany believes his teammate Kevin de Bruyne should have won the award given to the best player in England's Premier League.

Kanye West has angered a lot of people with his Twitter rants, but fellow rapper T.I. is not willing to turn his back on him.

The photo looks like a display table at a gun show: various handguns, shotguns and rifles strewn across a table with boxes of ammunition.

Swedish meatballs, popularized around the world by their association with the Scandinavian furniture giant IKEA, may not be from Sweden after all.

The institution that awards the Nobel Prize for Literature is mired in a sexual and financial scandal so deep that this year's prize may be postponed for the first time in more than seven decades.

Serena Williams is giving fans a glimpse into her life as a top athlete, wife and new mother in an HBO documentary series, "Being Serena," that premiered Wednesday night.

Imagine if Tiger Woods retired from professional golf at the age of 28, when he was world No. 1 and at the height of his powers.

Experts from the world's chemical weapons watchdog hope to exhume the bodies of victims of an alleged chemical attack in Syria in order to take samples, the body's chief has said.

A Russian military aircraft crashed in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Syria, killing both pilots on board, state media said Thursday.

Mahathir Mohamad, the former Malaysian prime minister turned opposition leader, is being investigated under a controversial anti-fake news law over a claim his plane was sabotaged, police have said.