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Raise your hand if you are a late bloomer. (I have both hands and feet lifted.)

Grab your favorite red shirt; it's time to celebrate the Lunar New Year, also known as Spring Festival.

Pro Football Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe was involved in a fiery courtside exchange with Memphis Grizzlies players Ja Morant and Dillon Brooks during the Grizzlies' 122-121 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday.

Last week was all about the Duke of Sussex. This week, it's the royal family's turn.

• War game suggests Chinese invasion of Taiwan would fail at a huge cost to US, Chinese and Taiwanese militaries

One of the most stirring and resonant sequences in a film this awards season comes from an unlikely source: "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish."

The past 12 months has forced European leaders to seriously rethink their approach to national security.

Andy Murray's fairytale run at the Australian Open came to an end on Saturday after he was beaten by Roberto Bautista Agut.

You could be forgiven if January 22 passes without you noticing anything special about the day. Despite its global significance, most markers of civic society in the US — banks, schools, businesses, and government offices — will bustle with normal activity, oblivious to the most significant cultural and historical holiday for Asian Americans.

The menswear shows in Paris are underway and despite chilling temperatures and a debilitating transit strike, the fashion community is out in full force.

A young alligator found in a plastic container in New Jersey has been relocated to another zoo in the state until it is transferred to an alligator sanctuary in Florida.

In travel news this week, China is on the move as the Lunar New Year rush gets underway, a boy makes the catch of a lifetime, temperatures drop to minus 80 F in the world's coldest city, plus what it's like to spend the night in an igloo in the Alps. (Spoiler: It's absolutely freezing).

One of two people killed after a plane experienced mechanical issues and crashed in New York on Thursday evening reached out to loved ones in the final moments of his life, officials said.

The tiny town of Luck, Wisconsin, is living up to its name, at least for one lucky lottery winner.

CNN's Ben Wedeman reports from inside the trenches near Bakhmut, Ukraine, where Ukrainian soldiers are trying to keep Russian forces from encircling the city.

• She scammed investors out of $4 billion, the FBI says. Then she disappeared • Woman shot and killed her terminally ill husband at Florida hospital, police say

Alec Baldwin, who is set to face involuntary manslaughter charges in the death of a crew member during a "Rust" film rehearsal, will continue starring as the lead role, a production attorney told CNN on Friday.

A parade of storms has given the West some relief from its historic drought, replenishing the soil, filling reservoirs and increasing much-needed snowpack. But whether it will be enough to help lift the West out of its multi-year water crisis, experts say, depends on temperatures in the coming months.