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The incoming Trump administration has told allies it is moving ahead with plans to relocate the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem -- even as those countries issue stark warnings of the potential impact and the Palestinians and Arab nations are escalating calls not to do it.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence's pets descend on Washington. CNN's Jeanne Moos introduces us to a rabbit named Marlon Bundo.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie released their first joint statement Monday night.

Country singer Brett Eldredge posted video of a snake emerging from a toilet while he was on vacation.

A woman in Minneapolis was injured after sheets of ice from a frozen waterfall shattered and landed atop her head.

Roger Federer has made a comfortable home for himself at the top of men's tennis for well over a decade but now finds himself in an unfamiliar position.

One in three women with breast cancer detected by a mammogram is treated unnecessarily, because screening tests found tumors that are so slow-growing that they're essentially harmless, according to a Danish study published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine, which has renewed debate over the value of early detection.

President-elect Donald Trump's threats against car companies in Mexico aren't spooking Volkswagen -- yet.

Maria Sharapova is set to make her official return from a doping suspension on April 26 after the former world No. 1 was granted a wildcard entry to Stuttgart's Porsche Tennis Grand Prix.

Ivory Coast has adopted a system called what3words for its postal addresses, which replaces lengthy GPS coordinates with 3-word sentences.

New year, new plotlines. Golf looks set to offer plenty of twists and turns in 2017.

After two months of licking their wounds, progressive Democrats say they're ready to take on President-elect Donald Trump.

California, Nevada and other parts of the West face more flooding, mudslides and heavy snow as winter storms continue to pound the region.

The Tree Man is no longer. Thanks to some groundbreaking surgeries, he can go back to being Abul Bajandar, a 27-year-old father and husband from a small town in Bangladesh.

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians gathered in and around Tehran University Tuesday for the funeral of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Alibaba founder Jack Ma met with Donald Trump Monday and pledged to create one million jobs in the U.S. over the next five years through the company's e-commerce platform.

Fancy a job with a new mysterious Dubai startup? You'll have to be under 25 to stand a chance.

The Pakistani army has successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable cruise missile from a submarine for the first time, less than a month after India launched its Agni-V missile.

On a weekend that was freezing even by the standards of Russia's harsh winter, temperatures dropping to -30 Celsius, people in the town of Ryazan were braving the Arctic blast.

If the president of FIFA gets his way, one of the world's biggest sporting festivals is set for a major facelift.