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Around April 30, North Korea executed its defense minister, Hyon Yong Chol, by firing squad, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reports. #NorthKorea #KPRK executed Defense Minister #HyonYongChol according to South Korea...

PHILADELPHIA -- An Amtrak train has crashed in Philadelphia, and several people appear to be injured. Train 188 was traveling from Washington, D.C., to New York City on Tuesday night...

Students at Louisiana State University will soon be able to soak up the sun in a manmade "lazy river," part of an $85 million leisure project underway despite the school's desperate financial situation.

Trading Standards warns more than 1,000 people from Northern Ireland that their names are on a so-called "suckers list" compiled by international fraudsters.

A group of sightseers get more than they bargained for when Nicaragua's Telica volcano roared into life.

International members of the aid organisation All Hands Volunteers currently based in Kathmandu capture the moments after a major earthquake hits Nepal. It had a magnitude of 7.3 and struck close to Mount Everest. Hundre...

An Amtrak train headed to New York City derailed and tipped over in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, mangling the front of it, tearing the cars apart and killing at least five people. Dozens of passengers were injured, and...

The actress revealed a surprise while talking about her film Carol

The supply of certain paintings is fixed, but the number of people with the riches to buy top-end art is rising.

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron is set to roll out a slew of new powers designed to counter radicalization, aiming to end, what he called the country's "passively tolerant society." Cameron will tell the National Secur...

Spiny-tailed iguanas are a threatened species in Mexico, where authorities are discouraging people from eating them Mexican environmental authorities say they seized 8.5 gallons (32 litres) of stew made of Mexican spiny-...

In his years-long effort to advance a massive new trade deal, President Obama weathered a major setback Tuesday from an unlikely source: his fellow Democrats. While Senate Republicans largely rallied around a vote to con...

Researchers claim to have found definitive evidence of Philip II and a Scythian princess in an ancient Greek tomb, but what do the skeletons really tell us?

A 27-year-old showed Facebook the ugly side of tanning.

Salahuddin Ahmed, a former minister for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, said he had been snatched in his home country in March Police in India have detained the chief spokesman of Bangladesh's main opposition party aft...

The train was headed from Washington to New York when it derailed at around 9:45 p.m. The cause was not immediately known.

Actress and activist Salma Hayek speaks to CNN's Hala Gorani about her recent trip to Lebanon and the plight of the Syrian refugees she met there.

A teenage girl appears in a Mexican court in a custody case filed by a US woman, weeks after another girl was wrongly sent to America.

After months of bombing by the U.S. and coalition forces, ISIS remains undefeated on the ground and has now entered a new phase, using the cyber-world as a weapon.

The discovery came as Syrian government forces were being accused of continuing to bombard insurgent-held areas with chlorine bombs.

WASHINGTON

Here's a recent headline that sends chills down your spine if you're a climate-news junkie -- and makes just about zero sense if you're any other normal person: