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Imagine a mostly dead planet with a heavy, toxic atmosphere 90 times thicker than ours and surface temperatures that reach 864 degrees: hot enough to melt lead.

A vehicle exploded Monday near a police checkpoint in southeastern Turkey, killing two police officers and a civilian, said a senior government official and state-run news agency Anadolu.

A month on from the failed July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, which claimed the lives of 240 people and 40 coup plotters, authorities have cracked down on a large number of people who, they say, are linked to the attempted uprising.

It's judgment day for some of the biggest names in Olympic sports Sunday, with the runners and gymnasts competing for gold at the Rio 2016 Games.

The country managed meager GDP expansion of only 0.2% in the second quarter of this year, according to official data released Monday.

Two student leaders who brought tens of thousands onto Hong Kong's streets during pro-democracy protests in 2014 have been spared jail, with a local court saying they genuinely believed in their political ideals.

Michael Phelps set out with the goal "to change the sport of swimming."

A 34-year-old woman has died after a man stabbed several passengers on a train in Switzerland and poured a flammable liquid that caught fire, Swiss police said Sunday.

At the very least, nobody can accuse Gary Lineker of not being a good sport.

Hundreds crowded a park in the Philippines on Sunday to protest plans by President Rodrigo Duterte to bury former leader Ferdinand Marcos in the National Heroes' Cemetery.

Manbij residents finally freed from the stranglehold of ISIS occupation celebrated in the streets Saturday, cutting off beards, burning niqabs and smoking cigarettes, things they weren't allowed to do during the terror group's two-year rule over the city.

Elaine Thompson ended fellow Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce's bid for Olympic history Saturday as she took the women's 100-meter title in Rio.

A man on a train in eastern Switzerland stabbed several passengers and poured out some kind of liquid that caught fire Saturday afternoon, leaving six people hurt -- including a 6-year-old boy, police said.

Malaika, a 29-year-old head nurse, holds Ali, a 2-day-old infant, as he struggles to take his final breaths. Born in eastern Aleppo, one of the hardest-hit cities in Syria's five-year civil war, Ali was born with chest issues that forced him to rely on an oxygen pump and an incubator in the neonatal unit at Aleppo Children's Hospital.

Plenty has been said about Donald Trump calling President Barack Obama the "founder of ISIS." The GOP presidential candidate added to the conversation himself on Friday, tweeting that he was being sarcastic.

Investigators in Thailand detained and questioned two people in connection with the wave of bombings across the country Thursday and Friday, police said.

If the world's fastest man is focused on coming away from the Olympic Games with an unprecedented "Triple-Triple" of gold medals, Usain Bolt's mother also has an eye on the future.

Pope Francis visited 20 former sex slaves from various countries who are living at a housing center in Rome.

The US women's soccer team isn't used to losing at the Olympics -- before Friday, it last suffered that ignominy to Norway in the gold medal match of the Sydney Games 16 years ago.