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Usain Bolt confirmed his status as one of the greatest Olympic athletes of all-time Friday as he anchored Jamaica to 4x100-meter relay gold at Rio 2016.

North Korea said its diplomat who recently defected to South Korea is a "criminal" who had been under investigation for "intentionally leaking secrets, embezzling state property" and a "sex offense."

To a fortunate many, war is an abstraction and the suffering it brings, though easy to understand, is hard to truly imagine. It's one of the reasons war photography and images of conflict are so essential. They bring these concepts into blinding focus and deny us the luxury of looking away.

US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte apologized Friday for his behavior with three of his teammates over the weekend at a Rio de Janeiro gas station, where police said at least one of the men vandalized the business and urinated on the premises.

In a major shift, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has indicated the United Nations is preparing to compensate for the cholera outbreak in Haiti that killed at least 10,000 people.

A father in Aleppo describes how he tries to explain the Syrian civil war to his children, including those who have known nothing but conflict.

Usain Bolt proved unbeatable once again as he claimed victory in the men's 200-meters final with a time of 19.78 seconds in Rio Thursday.

Star Olympian Ryan Lochte has stuck by his story that he and three other American swimmers were mugged at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro last weekend. As far as Brazilian police are concerned, Lochte is lying.

In 2011, more than 3 million people lived in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Then the bombs came. Here are ways you can help.

The US used a plane filled with $400 million in cash intended for Iran as "leverage" to ensure that American prisoners were released by Tehran, a State Department spokesman said Thursday.

Germany could become the next European country to ban face veils under a proposal announced on Friday by officials in the ruling coalition.

Burqas and the swimwear equivalent, burkinis are under more scrutiny in Europe this summer. Germany has announced plans to ban full-face veils in some circumstances, while in a small number of French towns burkinis were banned on beaches.

A popular visa that offers a path to U.S. citizenship is temporarily closed to Chinese and Indian nationals.

The Fox News housecleaning continues.

The main US ally fighting ISIS in Syria was bombed by Syrian warplanes for the first time Thursday while US military advisers were "nearby," a US defense official told CNN.

As CNN's Ivan Watson reports, new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's anti-drug offensive is producing results, but also facing criticism.

A law proposal making phrases like "Polish labor camps," "Polish extermination camps" and "Polish death camps" punishable by imprisonment for up to three years has been approved by Poland's Cabinet.

With goat-leather leggings and a brown bear fur hat, the 5,300-year-old mummy must have strutted the Alps with an eclectic style.

Here's one kid who'll probably learn to fly before she can crawl.

North Korea may send agents after a top diplomat who defected to South Korea recently, a defection expert told CNN.