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At the London 2012 Olympics, David Rudisha stormed to the line in the 800 meters final in just one minute 40.91 seconds, winning gold and smashing his own, still unbeaten, world record.

Editor's Note: Nai Saleh lives in government-controlled Latakia in northwest Syria. Saleh writes under a pseudonym out of concerns for her safety. Saleh is a civil engineer and a journalist who contributes to Good Morning Syria. The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.

Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova has been one of the most divisive figures of the Olympic Games.

For just more than two years, Nigerian health officials have been celebrating a country free of the paralyzing effects of the poliovirus.

Aleppo is a microcosm of the Syrian conflict. It is also a microcosm of the failures of American policy in this war-torn country. 

Abumbi II, the 11th fon, or king, of Bafut, Cameroon, has close to 100 wives. They weren't all his to start. According to local tradition, when a fon dies, his successor inherits all his wives and then marries his own queens.

The Rio 2016 Olympics has witnessed its second wedding proposal after Chinese diver Qin Kai popped the question on the podium to silver medalist He Zi.

Esther Yakubu gazes longingly at the familiar grainy photograph of her daughter and sings a favorite tune as she thinks of her.

$215 billion is the amount Chinese tourists spent abroad last year. And it's only going to grow as Chinese citizens get richer and travel more.

Boko Haram releases video of some of the girls kidnapped two years ago. One mother recognizes her daughter in the video. CNN's Nima Elbagir reports.

French photographer Raphael Olivier is constantly in search of arresting visual stories -- and travels far to see them in person.

Former Premier League soccer player Dalian Atkinson has died after he was shot by British police with a Taser early Monday, according to local media reports.

Woman who kidnapped baby from South African hospital in 1997 sentenced to 10 years prison.

At least 33 people were killed Monday when a passenger bus skidded off the road and plunged down a hill in Nepal's Kavrepalanchok district, authorities said.

The lovable Olympian is also a supremely confident character who, like Michael Phelps, is treating Olympic viewers to performances of older athletes at peak of their powers.

Terrorist attacks have hurt tourism in countries like France and Turkey, but boosted visitor figures in places that are considered safe havens, like Spain and Portugal.

The father of one of the missing Nigerian schoolgirls abducted from Chibok two years ago has told CNN he is overjoyed to see her alive on a new video released by the terrorist group Sunday.

The Australian Olympic Committee has banned its athletes from two of Rio's most popular beaches during the evenings after the armed robbery of Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte and three other US swimmers.