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Zeinab Sekaanvand is 22 years old. She has lost her unborn child. She has lost her family, who disowned her. She has lost her freedom to prison. And she is soon expected to lose the last thing she has left: her life.

"We cover the children at night when they sleep," said Khalil. His hands were stained black, the air in the entrance to his house thick with smoke.

Embattled Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf will retire effective immediately, the company announced Wednesday, marking a stunning downfall for one of the banking industry's most powerful figures.

ZMapp, an experimental drug that doctors thought may have helped save lives in recent high-profile Ebola cases, may not have been the key factor in survival, a new study says.

Comcast is being forced to pay the largest fine the FCC has ever levied against a cable operator. Its offense: Charging customers for services and equipment they didn't ask for.

A new phase in the continuing search for life on Mars begins this month -- adding to a fleet of spacecraft probing the Red Planet.

It's another haunting picture of a wounded child from Syria. This one has also gone viral on social media.

Imagine something so distant that with our current technology it would take 2,400 generations to reach there -- and that's just our nearest star.

The statistics are startling: Around the world, every seven seconds, a girl under 15 is married.

Disney's upcoming 2018 live-action retelling of Mulan, the traditional Chinese story of a young girl who takes her father's place in war to save him, is being hit with criticism on social media after a speculative screenplay was leaked online.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson joined the chorus of world figures calling for an investigation into Russia for war crimes in Syria on Tuesday and accused Moscow for a deadly attack on aid convoy last month.

In CNN Films' "We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World," the First Lady, Meryl Streep, Freida Pinto and CNN's Isha Sesay take a journey to Morocco and Liberia, where they meet young women overcoming incredible odds to change their lives.

A leading Pakistani journalist has been banned from leaving the country after writing a column that exposed significant rifts between the civilian government and the military.

Hurricane Matthew has caused widespread destruction in the Caribbean, killing hundreds of the "poorest of the poor" in Haiti.

Not since the Cold War have relations between the US and Russia been so poor.

The leisure safari was born in the 1920s when well-heeled Europeans and Americans flocked to Africa to see (and shoot) the remarkable wildlife.