In the cult classic comedy film "Cool Runnings" a Jamaican bobsleigh team captures the hearts of the sporting public with an implausible campaign at the Winter Olympics, in a sport that is unknown on the Caribbean island.
Police in Germany say they have foiled a possible terror plot to attack Europe's largest shopping mall and a popular Christmas market in the western city of Oberhausen.
Space travel remains a distant reality for most of the world's population. But, next year, the sound and shape of your laughter could make it aboard the International Space Station.
The Trump transition team is floating the possibility of an early executive action to impose tariffs on foreign imports, according to multiple sources.
All eyes are on Buckingham Palace to see if Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, will take the train Thursday to their country home in Sandringham for their annual Christmas break amid speculation about their health.
An explosion at a large fireworks market near Mexico City injured at least 60 people, according to the coordinator of Mexico's national civil protection agency.
They were born in the New Russia, after the old Soviet Union had collapsed. They've grown up in a different country from their parents and known just the one president all their lives.
