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A machete-wielding man shouting "Allahu Akbar" was shot and killed after wounding two police officers Saturday in the Belgian city of Charleroi, police said via Twitter.

Design student Lucie Davis made these high tech nails for a university project. The Tube's Oyster Card comes with an RFID chip inside, which she embedded.

An Uber ride usually earns driver Ellis Hill less than $20, but one fateful pickup has given the Philadelphia father a life-changing plane ticket.

Oskana Chusovitina will be more than twice as old as many of her gymnastic competitors at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Ginny Thrasher, a 19-year-old West Virginia University sophomore, won the women's 10-meter air rifle event on Saturday morning.

A new video emerged Friday that purportedly shows a US payment of $400 million worth of cash delivered to Iran on the day Tehran released several American prisoners in January.

In most campaign seasons, the days following the conventions are counted on to provide a bit of a breather ahead of the sprint to Election Day. But 2016 is a different beast -- and Donald Trump a unique candidate. This past week delivered a volume of political attacks, zingers, morality plays and controversies unseen in modern politics.

Jeni Stepien lost her dad 10 years ago, but with the help of his organ recipient, her dad will be there to walk her down the aisle on her wedding day.

WikiLeaks on Saturday walked back a claim made by its founder, Julian Assange, that it was "working on" obtaining Donald Trump's undisclosed tax returns.

It's one more historic barrier President Barack Obama has shattered.

The spectacular opening ceremony is over, the stadium flame has been lit, and after months of uncertainty, attention turns to the main event -- the sport at Rio 2016.

Dr. Steve Cutbirth was vacationing in the Bahamas when he was attacked by a shark.

Amid all the noise in the buildup to Rio, it's easy to forget that two of the most celebrated Olympians in history are preparing to make their final appearances this month.

The 2016 election has put Muslims at the center of the American political debate.

Of the 2,800 show planes at America's biggest airshow, the aircraft that may have had the most impact on aviation's future didn't even leave the ground.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has long marched alongside Chief Justice John Roberts on race.

ISIS militants have captured up to 3,000 people displaced from their homes trying to flee conflict zones in northern Iraq, the United Nations said Friday, reportedly killing 12 of them.

Rebirth and regeneration. That was the message behind a vibrant Opening Ceremony that heralded the start of the Rio 2016 Olympics.

A rare copy of a Superman comic book sold for nearly $1 million this week.