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As Francesca Cesari photographed a friend with her newborn several years ago, they paused so the crying infant could breast-feed in a quiet, darkened room.

The ancient city of Petra may be one of the world's best-known archaeological sites, but it still has secrets to reveal.

Since going pro at age 14, Maria Sharapova has risen to become a tennis star and 2015's highest-paid female athlete.

When you hear the word "fasting," you probably think of gimmicky diets—and, um, feeling "hangry." But a growing body of research suggests that cycling super low-calorie days into your normal eating plan could potentially improve your health (more on that later). But before you skip lunch and let your gut start growling, read on for everything you need to know about intermittent fasting.

Millions of Chinese high schoolers will sit the country's grueling two-day college entrance examination, known as the gaokao, this week.

When the children of Bridge Farm Primary School in Bristol were tasked with naming a school "house" after a local hero, they decided on the famous and elusive street artist Banksy. Little did they expect to return from school holidays Monday to find an original Banksy of their own on an exterior wall of their school, in this city in southwestern England. The mural shows a stick-wielding girl chasing a flaming tire.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton should go to jail over her emails. CNN's Jason Carroll reports.

Pope Francis announced Saturday that bishops who fail to report cases of sex abuse of children and vulnerable adults could be removed from office.

See photos from the life of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who became the youngest man to assume the office when he was elected in 1960.

An 18-year-old Pakistani schoolteacher died Wednesday from injuries after her body was set on fire for refusing a marriage proposal, police said.

In the early 1980s, the AIDS crisis was being covered nightly on the news -- but that was likely the only time you'd hear about it on your television.

Go inside CNN's coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989:

More than 2,500 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean while attempting to cross into Europe so far this year. Legal adviser and external relations coordinator for Sea-Watch describes some of her missions to rescue migrants.

Thousands of migrants are flooding into Europe from Africa and the Middle East. Many are seeking refuge from war-torn areas.

The Brazilian teenage girl who says she was brutally gang raped speaks out about her ordeal. CNN's Shasta Darlington reports.

Jessica Gray stands tall and strong, wearing her late husband's Army T-shirt. His wedding ring rests on a chain around her neck, as her arms wrap tightly and emotionally around the folded American flag that was draped over his coffin just a few months earlier.

SpaceX successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket on an offshore platform on Friday, it's the third time in three months the private space exploration firm has made a successful landing at sea.

Scientists spend years in search of answers to some of the world's biggest questions: Is there life beyond Earth? How can we use technology to save lives? What do we know about how humans evolved?

As World War II raged in 1944, an American bomber took off on a mission with three crew members on board.