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A newspaper report that a mob of men molested women on the streets of an Indian city on New Year's Eve sparked controversy and concern after a government official confirmed it, but the police denied that any such thing happened.

Time for a long trip along the new silk road.

The NAACP is staging a sit-in at the Mobile, Alabama, office of US Sen. Jeff Sessions to protest Sessions' nomination as US attorney general.

The history of biofuel production in Africa is marked with expensive and damaging failures.

It's that time of year when many of us take a cold, hard look at our lives -- and, more important, our vices -- to set a goal we believe will make us healthier or happier in the year ahead.

Lego is making its blocks smarter.

The president of a historically black college will announce Wednesday if the band will perform at President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural parade.

ExxonMobil and Rex Tillerson have announced their plan to address concerns about the huge nest egg the oil giant has promised to its former CEO.

Face down in the mud, a baby boy lies still after washing up on a river bank.

Wendy's got into an argument on Twitter over whether their beef really is fresh and not frozen. CNN's Anderson Cooper reports.

While two twins were playing, a dresser almost crushed one of them. Watch the brother's incredible rescue.

Charles Manson, the cult leader whose followers committed heinous murders that shocked the nation almost a half century ago, has been hospitalized, the Los Angeles Times and TMZ reported on Tuesday.

Standing in front of a bright red banner reading "Build Israel Great Again," former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee promised Tuesday during an appearance in the West Bank that President-elect Donald Trump's policies toward Israel would be very different than President Barack Obama's.

Another day of combing Lake Erie turned up empty Tuesday in a search for a small plane authorities believe crashed after taking off from a Cleveland airport.

On a day filled with pomp, circumstance and photo ops meant to commemorate pomp and circumstance, leave it to the youth to out-ridiculous everyone else.

Janet Jackson has given birth to a baby boy, according to People magazine.

The Myanmar government has launched an investigation into police brutality after video emerged that appears to show police beating civilians.

While Kelly and NBC celebrated Tuesdays's announcement, executives and insiders at rival networks have been left feeling baffled by the decision to have Kelly host shows in daytime and on Sunday nights -- two extremely challenging arenas, both are fraught with risk.

More than 700 people in 20 states were diagnosed with fungal meningitis and other infections after receiving contaminated medication in 2012. Sixty-four patients in nine states died, making it the deadliest meningitis outbreak in US history.

Vice President Joe Biden has made the ceremonial Senate swearing-in the talk of Twitter over the years. His final round did not disappoint.