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Most people wouldn't give this tote bag a second look, but an eagle-eyed Arabic speaker on the Berlin metro noticed the bag's not-so-secret message.

Usain Bolt booked his place in the final of the 200-meters -- and still had time to have a laugh on the finishing line before watching Justin Gatlin crash out.

As athletes from around the world compete in Rio de Janeiro in the Summer Olympics, many Saudi women also dream of playing sports and winning gold medals for our country.

Beheadings, mass executions, public hangings and torture -- it's all part of the massive drug war next door.

Twenty-seven days after an Indian military jet mysteriously vanished from radar on a routine flight over the Bay of Bengal, authorities are no wiser as to the aircraft's fate, Indian officials say.

Donald Trump's views on Syria's opposition has shocked many activists in rebel-held parts of Syria, according to one local journalist.

The beatings would begin as soon as they were arrested, and they continued at a "welcome party" at the detention center.

A senior North Korean diplomat, along with his wife and children, has defected and reached safety in South Korea, making it the highest-level diplomatic defection from the Pyongyang regime in history.

The dramatic journey of a four-ton elephant swept by flood waters from Bangladesh to India has ended in tragedy.

Five years after President Barack Obama first called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, the last American ambassador to that war-torn country issued a scathing criticism of U.S. policy.

Officials are starting to question four US Olympic swimmers' stories about being robbed at gun point in Rio. CNN's Steve Nannes reports.

Brazil will get a shot at redemption after its men's football team thrashed Honduras to set up an Olympic gold medal match against Germany.

The head of the European Olympic Committees, Irishman Pat Hickey, has been arrested in Rio de Janeiro as part of an alleged international ticket scalping scam.

While the medal podiums fill and rousing cheers echo around the Olympic stadiums in Rio, the homicide squad doesn't get the night off. Especially not in the violent slum area of Baixada Fluminense.

Turkey is to release on parole 38,000 prisoners jailed before last month's coup attempt, the country's justice minister said Wednesday.

Venezuela's deepening chaos could soon create tremors in the global oil markets.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has ordered an independent investigation into a raid on a compound in Juba, South Sudan, in which one person was killed and others were raped and beaten by uniformed men. The investigation will also look into allegations that nearby UN personnel failed to come to their rescue.