Chinese swimmer Fu Yuanhui's memorable stunned-yet-thrilled reaction to winning the bronze medal in the 100-meter backstroke final at the Olympic Games in Rio last week made the Internet love her even more.
Usain Bolt booked his place in the final of the 200-meters -- and still had time to have a laugh on the finishing line before watching Justin Gatlin crash out.
As athletes from around the world compete in Rio de Janeiro in the Summer Olympics, many Saudi women also dream of playing sports and winning gold medals for our country.
Twenty-seven days after an Indian military jet mysteriously vanished from radar on a routine flight over the Bay of Bengal, authorities are no wiser as to the aircraft's fate, Indian officials say.
A senior North Korean diplomat, along with his wife and children, has defected and reached safety in South Korea, making it the highest-level diplomatic defection from the Pyongyang regime in history.
Five years after President Barack Obama first called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, the last American ambassador to that war-torn country issued a scathing criticism of U.S. policy.
The head of the European Olympic Committees, Irishman Pat Hickey, has been arrested in Rio de Janeiro as part of an alleged international ticket scalping scam.
While the medal podiums fill and rousing cheers echo around the Olympic stadiums in Rio, the homicide squad doesn't get the night off. Especially not in the violent slum area of Baixada Fluminense.
