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She was already the golden girl of judo -- now she has the medal to go with it.

A couple of gymnasts at Rio 2016 have taken to heart one of the founding principles of Olympism -- "placing sport at the service of the harmonious development of humankind" -- in a very modern way.

A man in his 20s has died from a blow to the head while leaning out of a train window in London, transport police said.

Steinhoff International is buying Mattress Firm for $2.4 billion in the biggest ever African buyout of an American company.

It was a tale of contrasting fortunes for two Dutch cyclists.

More than a million Turks united in Istanbul on Sunday night as part of a pro-democracy rally following last month's failed coup.

Japanese Emperor Akihito is worried that his advanced age may begin to affect his ability to serve as emperor.

Almost 50 Filipino officials, including mayors and police officers, have surrendered in response to being called out by the country's president as being connected to illegal drug trade Sunday.

The manufacturer of the A320 and A380 said the probe by the U.K. Serious Fraud Office is connected to the use of third-party consultants by its passenger aircraft business.

Brazil's Olympic team gave about a third as many samples as normally expected in the crucial month before the games began, CNN can reveal -- an "unacceptable practice" according to the world anti-doping watchdog.

At least 38 people have been killed by landslides in the Mexican states of Puebla and Veracruz after Tropical Storm Earl hit eastern Mexico, according to the official Twitter account of National Civil Protection Coordinator Luis Puente.

Thai voters have approved a new draft constitution, the country's election commission said Sunday evening.

The President of the Philippines has named over 150 government officials who he says are complicit in the country's drug trade.

There are indications that a machete attack on Belgian police may have been intended as an act of terrorism, prosecutors said Sunday.

Australia is being "swamped by Asians", mosques need to have security cameras, halal-certified food is funding terrorism and "Communist China" shouldn't own Australia's electricity.

Authorities have declared a crisis in parts of Macedonia after powerful storms and floods collapsed homes and left at least 21 people dead, state-run media said Sunday.

After months of being pummeled from the air and by Syrian artillery, an Islamist-led rebel coalition has made a dramatic breakthrough in relieving the siege of Aleppo, Syria's largest city. Their assault -- the first test for a new group born out of al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate -- appears to have taken the exhausted Syrian army by surprise.

The International Paralympic Committee on Sunday banned Russia from participating in the upcoming 2016 Paralympic Games for allegedly violating international doping rules.

Rebel fighters in Syria have broken a government siege of the crucial northern city of Aleppo by opening a corridor between opposition-held territory in the east and to the west of the city, according to a monitoring group, rebel groups and humanitarian sources.