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Just about anyone who had money in the market is saying, "Thank you, 2016!"

Before today, the last time I opened my 1991/1992 yearbook from the Anglo-American School of Moscow was 15 years ago when I changed houses. I searched for it again Friday morning under a stack of university stuff, after a frenetic 24 hours of activity between Russia and the West. Amid the flurry of activity -- President Barack Obama's announcement of sanctions and expelled diplomats, Trump's assertion that the US should "move on," and Putin's declaration that (despite the recommendation of his Foreign Minister) he will not retaliate in kind against US diplomats in Russia (yet) -- reports reached me in Rome that the Kremlin would allegedly take steps to shut down the school as retaliation against Obama's moves against Russia.

For the first time in the United States, New York City issued a birth certificate reading "intersex" in the gender field.

Who remembers Mohamed Bouazizi? The answer, maybe, is not many of us.

According to research from the University of Scranton, 45% of Americans make New Year's resolutions, but just 8% of resolutions turn out to be successful.

An autopsy on the body of on pop star George Michael proved inconclusive and further tests will be carried out, UK police said.

The carcasses of thousands of sea creatures have mysteriously washed up on the western coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.

A huge open-pit coal mine has collapsed in eastern India, trapping at least 30 people and killing at least five, police officials say.

Millions of households in the Sahel region of West Africa live under a growing threat.

It's dawn in Lhasa, Tibet, and the quiet is punctuated only by the gentle chanting of Buddhist pilgrims.

President Barack Obama, at long, long last, responded forcefully to Russia's unprecedented interference in America's democratic process. We can all wonder what might have happened if he had acted sooner, but that question no longer matters.

When European explorers discovered the Yoruba kingdoms in West Africa in the fifteenth century, they found a civilization already established over 500 years earlier.

You may never have heard of him, but without this bear you might never have seen a panda in your local zoo.

The Syrian government and opposition rebels have agreed to terms for a ceasefire in the country's long-running civil war, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday.

Israel, and by extension the United States, are poised at the entrance to a dangerous path. The model democracy of the Middle East risks transforming into a global pariah on the scale of South Africa when it was in the depths of its apartheid nightmare.

A top aide to President-elect Donald Trump speculated Thursday that the Obama administration's sanctions against Russia for its alleged interference in the 2016 election may have been aimed at restricting Trump's policy toward Russia.

After months of no signs of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, a US official told CNN on Thursday, "in the last few weeks we've been aware of some of Baghdadi's movements."

A new report claims North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has ordered 340 people to be executed he came to power in 2011.

Amazon may one day use blimps stocked with drones to get packages to customers even faster.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte denied throwing a person off a helicopter in an interview with CNN Philippines Thursday, contradicting a statement he made on live television earlier this week.