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Poachers have devastated Africa's savannah elephant population. The Great Elephant Census reveals that in just seven years, 30% of the species has been wiped out. Unless things change, the population will be halved in less than a decade.

When Jet Blue flight 387 touches down in Cuba on Wednesday, it will be the first direct commercial flight between the US and the island in over a half-century.

Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign last year by targeting the Mexican government, which he accused of intentionally sending murderers and rapists to the United States. Since then, he has continued to launch attacks, claiming that he will force Mexico to pay for a border wall with the United States and claiming that an American judge's Mexican heritage prevents him from fairly adjudicating a lawsuit against one of Trump's businesses.

North Korea has executed its top education official, Kim Yong Jin, the South Korean Unification Ministry said Wednesday.

Twenty-two towns in France are maintaining a ban on the burkini despite court rulings that have said mayors have no legal right to dictate what women wear on the beach.

Renowned British broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough says he sees no other way than to ban the sale of ivory less than 100 years old.

ISIS spokesman Mohammad al-Adnani has been killed, according to a statement from the terror group and its Amaq news agency.

SWIFT, the messaging network that connects the world's banks, says it has identified new hacks targeting its members.

A five-day-old newborn peers out from a pink blanket. His dark, almond-shaped eyes stare directly at the camera, his tiny hand tucked underneath his chin.

Pep Bonet photographed the heavy-metal subculture in Botswana. These metalheads in southern Africa learned about the music through the Internet, he said.

The tax battle between Apple and the European Commission can seem abstract, especially if you've actually read the EC competition arm's explanation of why it is demanding Apple pay $14.5 billion of back taxes.

They appear after shark attacks, marathons, earthquakes and even terrorist attacks like the one in Paris last year. And they have appeared en masse most recently in images of migrants and refugees attempting deadly crossings of the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe.

At least seven people were killed and more than 15 injured Tuesday when a truck with explosives blew up outside the Somali presidential palace and the popular Somali Youth League Hotel, police told CNN.

Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants are risking everything to get to Europe. Who are they and where are they coming from?

Dear Mahesh Sharma,

The mayor of a seaside town on the French Riviera is sticking by his town's burkini ban, telling beachgoers, "if you don't want to live the way we do, don't come."