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Wikileaks released a series of voicemails Wednesday from the Democratic National Committee hack showing donors plying top-level officials for favors, and one donor expressing outrage that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had won a say in the drafting of the party's platform.

The suspect in a stabbing spree in a facility west of Tokyo that left 19 people dead wrote of his "ability to kill" disabled people.

Pope Francis said Wednesday that "the world is at war" as he addressed the slaying of a Catholic priest by radical Islamists in France, but he stressed it was not a war of religion.

The Turkish government continues to take action against soldiers and institutions after this month's failed coup attempt.

A suicide bombing killed 48 people, among them women and children, Wednesday in northern Syria, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The night sky is lighting up this summer.

As the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, officially kick off with the opening ceremony on August 5, here are some key facts and figures to celebrate the first Olympic Games hosted by a South American country.

Meet the Queen's Swan Marker and discover how his team counts and checks the royal swans during "Swan Upping", a unique tradition that dates back to the 12th Century.

A former Israeli prime minister has accused Benjamin Netanayhu's government of consciously dragging the country toward a one-state solution that threatens the very essence of Zionism.

As a human rights group tells it, this is what witnesses say is happening to some of the thousands arrested after this month's failed coup in Turkey: captured military officers being raped by police; hundreds of detained soldiers beaten; some withheld food, water and access to lawyers for days.

Within 30 feet of the front door, the wretched smell reaches your nostrils and seizes your stomach. There is no doubt: It's the smell of decomposing corpses.

An Australian man has won the raffle of a lifetime, taking home an entire Pacific island resort for the price of a $49 ticket.

A Malawian man who bragged about having sex with underage girls to initiate them into womanhood has been arrested, authorities say.

Relax, Marina Joyce fans. She's OK.

A South Korea town is seeing boom times due to the augmented reality game; Danny Cevallos says such games may reshape our economic landscape.

One hostage has been killed in a standoff in a church in the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, in France's Normandy region Tuesday, CNN affiliate BFMTV reports.

A pastor is perhaps an unlikely candidate to become Ghana's first car manufacturer.

The teenage boy whose treatment sparked outrage over widespread abuse at juvenile detention centers in northern Australia, has spoken out for the first time.

It's taken more than 500 days and overcome countless problems, but the epic journey of Solar Impulse 2 is finally complete.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called for a national investigation into allegations of abuse and torture at a juvenile detention center.