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This is what's left of the Syrian village of Halimce after fierce fighting between Kurdish forces and ISIS. The Kurds dealt the terrorists a blow after killing scores of jihadists...

While many retirees take up interesting hobbies when they leave the workforce, Su Daocheng, 60, might be able to claim the title of most unusual post-work activity - designing a rideable robotic horse. 

Many are convinced that Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is guilty without hearing one word of testimony.

Ohio will delay the executions of seven death row inmates while searching for an adequate supply of drugs that complies with its new execution protocol, the state's Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said Friday...

Eugene de Kock was the most notorious assassin of South Africa's apartheid era, commanding a death squad that kidnapped, tortured and killed black activists.

The mystery surrounding the death of an American defense contractor at a Saudi Arabia hotel mounted Friday amid speculation about what happened in the days leading up to his death.

Mitt Romney's announcement Friday that he will not run for president a third time has reset the budding 2016 field - with political strategists saying his exit could position Jeb Bush as establishment favorite while help...

Mary Cheney wants to know why it isn't "socially acceptable" for a white person to "put on blackface and act out offensive stereotypes of African-Americans" if drags queens are allowed to imitate female stereotypes?

More measles cases have been found in California, health officials said Friday.

The United States has proposed analyzing genetic information from more than 1 million American volunteers as part of a new initiative to understand human disease and develop medicines targeted to an individual's genetic ...

Peshmerga forces unleash fire power against Islamic State just southwest of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk. IS has frequently battled Iraqi security forces and Shi'ite militias further south and west, but attacks in and around...

Some of the soldiers killed in Thursday's attacks on checkpoints and police and army bases in Egypt's Sinai peninsula have been laid to rest.

The terrorist who gunned down four people at a kosher market in eastern Paris earlier this month recorded the attack on a camera, a U.S. intelligence official told CNN on Friday.

President Barack Obama will appear at a public event next week that the Dalai Lama is also attending, a move that is likely to anger Chinese officials.

Islamist fighters said the airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition were the main reason they withdrew

A new Boston Globe profile of potential Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush explores the former governor's time as a student at Phillips Academy in Andover during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The diplomatic break touched off by Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to negotiate an address to Congress without first telling President Obama reflects their fundamentally different world views.

Outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel acknowledged Friday that some officials in the White House disagreed with his slow pace in releasing Guantanamo detainees.

SpaceX has released video of--what they say-- is the space rocket of the future. CNN's Rachel Crane reports.

The former Olympian confirmed he's making a big lifestyle change

A team of astronomers, after saying last spring that they had found long-sought evidence for what kicked off the big bang, now concede that more work is needed.

The White House has deep concerns about Israel's decision to issue tenders for the construction of 450 new housing units in occupied Palestinian territory, a spokesman said Friday (January 30). The move could undermine e...