ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's central bank announced a series of measures on Monday to free up cash for banks as the country grapples with a currency crisis sparked by concerns over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's economic policies and a trade…
A hippo is pictured near lesser flamingos at Lake Oloidien near Naivasha, Kenya, in a May 3, 2012 file photo. Getty NAIROBI, Kenya -- A Chinese tourist was attacked and killed by a hippo while taking pictures on the edge…
19 Photos Villagers pull down their earthquake-damaged house in Kayangan, Aug. 12, 2018, in Lombok Island, Indonesia. Getty JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The death toll from the earthquake that rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok a week ago has passed 430…
And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: August 12th, 1925, 93 years ago today … a date truly for the record books. For that was the day twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter were born in London. The…
LONDON -- V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose celebrated writing and brittle, provocative personality drew admiration and revulsion in equal measures, died Saturday at his London home, his family said. He was 85. His wife, Nadira Naipaul, said he…
(CBS News) - You're never too old to rock on. Two elderly men managed to slip away from their nursing home in Germany to attend the Wacken Open Air, the largest heavy metal festival in the world, over the weekend, authorities said.
(CBS News) - As the opioid epidemic continues to wreak havoc across the country, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sheds light on the devastating consequences opioid addiction can have on pregnant women.
(CBS News) - Donated food sent to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria were left to rot in a parking lot of a government facility, CBS News corresondent David Begnaud reported Friday.
TORONTO — Canadian police have charged a man for the deaths of two police officers and two civilians in a shooting that struck a nerve in a country that has been roiled in recent months by several instances of mass…
TORONTO — Canadian police have charged a man for the deaths of two police officers and two civilians in a shooting that struck a nerve in a country that has been roiled in recent months by several instances of mass…
A "Tent City" in Texas for migrant boys will remain open until at least September 13 -- two months past its initial planned closure date of July 13, CBS News has learned. The shelter houses boys who were apprehended after crossing the…
Palestinian protestors gather during a demonstration at the Israel-Gaza border, east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 10, 2018. Said Khatib/AFP/Getty JERUSALEM — Violence erupted at the Gaza border Friday after the territory's militant Islamic Hamas…
This still taken from surveillance footage shows the reconnaissance mission that left one U.S. Air Force member killed in 2002. Department of Defense The U.S. Air Force has released aerial footage of Tech Sgt. John Chapman's final moments in 2002…
The Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen's Houthi rebels announced on Friday an investigation into an airstrike on a bus that killed at least 29 children, as pressure mounted on the U.S.-backed military coalition over the deadly strike. The announcement came after…
Police in the far eastern Canadian city of Fredericton lost two of their own in a shooting incident on Friday morning. Fredericton police confirmed in a tweet that there were "at least four people killed" earlier in the day, and…
Indian film actor turned politician Naramalli Sivaprasad arrives at parliament dressed as Adolf Hitler to press for government funding for his home state of Andhra Pradesh, in New Delhi, Aug. 9, 2018. Getty NEW DELHI -- An Indian lawmaker has…
ANKARA, Turkey - The Turkish currency has plunged to an all-time low amid concerns over the president's economies policies persisted and as a dispute with the U.S. showed no sign of subsiding. The lira hit a record low of 6.24…
Police in the far eastern Canadian city of Frederiction warned residents to stay in their homes early Friday as they responded to a mass shooting incident. The police said in a tweet that there were "at least four people killed,"…
This screen grab taken from AFPTV video on August 10, 2018 shows smoke rising into the air after Taliban militants launched an attack on the Afghan provincial capital Ghazni, with terrified residents cowering in their homes amid explosions and gunfire.…
MOSCOW -- Russia warned Friday that if the U.S. followed through with threats to impose further harsh economic sanctions it would be seen as a "declaration of economic war." The warning by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev came after Washington unveiled…
Chinese Hui Muslims pray during Eid al-Fitr prayers at Niujie Mosque in Beijing in a July 18, 2015 file photo. Authorities in northwestern China were to demolish a mosque on Aug. 10, 2018, despite protests by hundreds of members of…
Last Updated Aug 9, 2018 7:06 PM EDT ISTANBUL -- There was a horrifying attack Thursday in Yemen -- a Middle Eastern country torn apart by a 3-year-old civil war. An airstrike in the north reportedly killed at least 50,…
SANAA, Yemen -- An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels hit a bus in a market in northern Yemen on Thursday, killing dozens of people, including children, and wounding many more, Yemeni tribal leaders and local officials said.…
SANAA, Yemen -- An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels hit a bus in a market in northern Yemen on Thursday, killing dozens of people, including children, and wounding many more, Yemeni tribal leaders and local officials said.…