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Russia faces "a number of challenges" before it can be readmitted to the World Anti-Doping Agency's program, the drug-testing body says.

Meetings between President-elect Donald Trump and the Japanese prime minister as well as a subsequent meeting with business partners from India are raising questions about how difficult it may be to untangle Trump's worldwide properties once he is sworn in.

There's still a small, increasingly fading hope in the United States -- and indeed much of the world observing our "transition process" -- that Donald Trump will suddenly transform through some magical wizardry into a more or less conventional president of the type we've seen in the 44 previous holders of that office.

Two Qatari sisters were robbed north of Paris by masked men who took jewelry and other personal effects worth an estimated 5 million euros ($5.3 million), officials say.

Turkey has withdrawn a controversial bill which would have pardoned men convicted of child rape, if they married the victim.

The UK has rejected a suggestion by Donald Trump that it should appoint the figureheard of the Brexit movement, Nigel Farage, as ambassador to the US.

A tsunami warning is in effect for Japan's Fukushima Prefecture after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off of Honshu at 5:59 a.m. Tuesday (3:59 p.m. Monday ET), according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

The words "former Soviet" carry with them some baggage -- usually grim, gray baggage that most travelers would prefer to avoid.

An Egyptian court on Tuesday overturned a life sentence handed to ousted President Mohamed Morsy and 18 others for espionage Tuesday, ordering a retrial in the case, Egyptian state media reports.

India's deadliest rail accident since 2010 has once again pulled to the fore the issue of how the country's vast rail network is funded and maintained.

Slippery conditions and fog are thought to have contributed to a huge highway pileup that killed 17 people in northeastern China.

CNN's Phil Black speaks to three prisoners who say they're ISIS operatives and asks them what motivated them to aid the terrorist group.

Yau Wai-ching and Sixtus "Baggio" Leung would be forgiven for feeling a little shell shocked.

Pressure is building on South Korean President Park Geun-hye to stand down after revelations this weekend she's been named as a "suspect" by prosecutors in a corruption probe.

Work is underway on the world's tallest religious skyscraper: a 700-foot-tall Hindu temple in India.

When Donald Trump dropped his bombshell call for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States, a property developer in Dubai found himself in a difficult spot.

"Will I die, miss? Will I die?"

A British girl seen by thousands in a heartbreaking photograph that her father said showed "the darkness that is childhood cancer" has died, he announced in a Facebook post. Jessica Whelan, of Clayton-le-Moors, England, was 4.