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As President-elect Donald Trump's transition continues with an unprecedented level of confusion and delay, it is worth noting that this, in fact, is the easy part. Transitions from one administration to another are so formalized and organized at this stage -- buoyed by a congressional statute that lays out the process and protocols -- that nothing but utter mismanagement can explain what is unfolding.

Barack Obama is making his last international trip as president, visiting Greece, Germany and Peru.

A British tourist has been arrested in Dubai on charges of extramarital sex after telling police she was raped while in the United Arab Emirates, according to a UK-based legal advice group called Detained in Dubai.

A number of major trauma hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo are out of service after days of heavy airstrikes, the Syrian American Medical Society told CNN on Saturday.

Two nephews of Venezuela's first lady, Cilia Flores, have been convicted in US federal court for conspiring to smuggle more than 800 kilograms (1,763 pounds) of cocaine into the United States.

For what appears to be the first time since scientists began keeping track, sea ice in the Arctic and the Antarctic are at record lows this time of year.

Thousands of people wearing yellow T-shirts flooded the streets of Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday to call for the resignation of embattled Prime Minister Najib Razak.

Before his election, the closest Donald Trump got to the presidency was on an episode of "The Simpsons" television show, which forecast a dystopian future when he would occupy the Oval Office.

A number of major trauma hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo are out of service after days of heavy airstrikes, the Syrian American Medical Society told CNN.

The Saudi-led coalition which is backing Yemen's government in its fight against Houthi rebels has declared a 48-hour ceasefire in Yemen to begin on Saturday, Saudi Arabia's state news agency SPA reported.

For centuries, the massive Assyrian city in northern Iraq lay buried beneath the sands of time, forgotten by history.

Pope Francis is showing his love for outsiders again -- this time by turning some of them into the ultimate insiders.

International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney warned that President-elect Donald Trump's policies would harm Muslim Americans in the US and across the world.

Suicide bombs and street-to-street fighting, human shields and a humanitarian crisis. The battle to recapture Mosul from ISIS has been raging for a month. So where do things stand?

How do you open this door without all the plates smashing? That's the crockery conundrum confounding Internet users in Taiwan and China.

When Barack Obama introduced himself to the world in 2008, he stood in the sprawling Tiergarten here, packed with Berliners waving American flags, and declared that walls — metaphoric divides of ethnicity, gender, religion, and race — were crumbling.

This week, President-elect Donald Trump's immigration adviser, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, proposed reinstating a national registry for immigrants from Muslim majority countries.

The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit New Zealand this week lifted the seabed two meters, leaving seaweed-covered rocks and marine animals exposed above tide level.

Mexico has a message for its citizens living in the United States who are fearful of what may come under President-elect Donald Trump: Don't be afraid, the government is here.

Video and images of President-elect Donald Trump's meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday will not be seen on most major U.S. news outlets. Here's why.