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Five percent. Those are your chances of getting into Harvard.

Who were the big winners and losers in Asia in 2016? Curtis S. Chin and Jose B. Collazo offer their take.

Two Italian police officers are being hailed as heroes for killing Europe's most wanted man.

Babies born. Peace treaties signed. And the number of people who ran for president in 2016 (Hint: It's a lot). Here's a look back at the year in numbers.

The world seemed to tilt toward Vladimir Putin's Russia in 2016. Donald Trump was voted in; Britain voted out.

Two European countries tried to deport him. He served jail time in one of them.

Anis Amri, a suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack which killed 12 people, has died in a shootout with police in Milan.

So used to rewriting the record books and piling up tennis grand slams, 2016 brought Roger Federer back to the days, in some respects, when he was a young pro in search of a maiden major.

Take a look at 30 photos of the week from December 16 through December 22.

Anis Amri is likely the most wanted man in Europe right now.

In the cult classic comedy film "Cool Runnings" a Jamaican bobsleigh team captures the hearts of the sporting public with an implausible campaign at the Winter Olympics, in a sport that is unknown on the Caribbean island.

The digital currency Bitcoin has no ties to sovereign states and only exists as zeros and ones in cyberspace.

The two boys, aged 11 or 12, milled around the street corner, chatting with journalists and soldiers.

Police in Germany say they have foiled a possible terror plot to attack Europe's largest shopping mall and a popular Christmas market in the western city of Oberhausen.

Police in Mumbai have arrested six people in connection with a baby smuggling ring.

CNN's Ben Wedeman meets with residents of a Mosul neighborhood recently liberated from ISIS control.

Janis Garisons isn't surprised when he hears allegations of Russian hacks targeting the recent US presidential election. 

See some of the most powerful moments from the battle for Aleppo from 2012 to its recapture by the Syrian regime in December 2016.