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New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has resigned, in a move that came as a shock to many observers.

It flew the American flag, hung a photo of President Obama and issued US visas for more than a decade.

Here we go again: another "Saturday Night Live" sketch and another tweet from Donald Trump complaining about how that iconic comedy show is unfairly mocking him. Trump is quickly becoming the "whiner in chief," at least when it comes to comedians poking fun at him. You would think a person who will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States next month would be too busy to watch and critique a comedy show as "unwatchable and totally biased," but not Trump.

These time-lapses by Google Earth show how cities around the world have developed over time.

Army Corp of Engineers announced it will look for an alternate route for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota.

Austria's far-right presidential candidate Norbert Hofer has conceded defeat in an election rerun after exit polls showed an apparent win for his left-leaning rival.

Hawaiians more used to dusting sand than ice from their feet have been warned that a winter storm may bring heavy snow to Big Island peaks overnight.

Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has announced his intention to resign following a resounding loss at the polls for his constitutional reforms package on Sunday.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is a $3.7 billion project that would cross four states and change the landscape of the US crude oil supply.

Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein said early Sunday she would "escalate" her statewide recount efforts in Pennsylvania through a federal lawsuit, after announcing she would drop it.

Donald Trump vowed on election night to "bind the wounds of division" but so far he's not doing much to become a president for all Americans.

Madonna proclaimed her love for ex-husband Sean Penn at her charity auction in Miami, claiming to remarry him if he bid $150,000 on a necklace.

Former American prisoner of war Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is asking President Barack Obama to grant him a pardon for charges he faces after leaving his post in Afghanistan in 2009, according to White House and Justice Department officials.

Amazon has gone after book stores, retail chains and electronics shops. Now it's taking on grocery stores, with a twist.

Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and YouTube must move faster to remove hate speech from their platforms, European officials said Monday.

A cleaner in the capital of Saudi Arabia was given a set of gold jewels and promised thousands of riyals after he was ridiculed on social media when a photo of him staring at a jewelry shop display went viral.

National Steak and Poultry issued a recall of more 1.9 million pounds of its ready-to-eat chicken products, the Unites States Department of Agriculture said Monday. The products are sold as fully cooked for consumers to heat and serve, but they may be undercooked. Undercooked poultry can harbor bacteria that can lead to gastrointestinal illness.

I was standing in mud and ice a couple hundred yards from a police barricade of razor wires and concrete freeway barriers, eyeing a procession of military veterans flooding into the Oceti Sakowin camp in North Dakota, when word leaked that the black snake had suffered a serious blow to the skull.

See the Oakland, California, warehouse called the Ghost Ship before and after the fatal fire that claimed at least 9 lives.

A suspect arrested Sunday with an assault rifle at a Washington, DC pizzeria admitted he had come to investigate an online conspiracy theory, Washington's Metropolitan Police Department said Sunday evening in a statement.