ROME — Heat warnings went into effect in much of Europe on Thursday during the height of the tourist season. It was 104 degrees in Madrid, Spain, and 106 in Lisbon, Portugal, with temperatures expected to rise even higher on…
Bruce Jentleson is a professor of public policy and political science at Duke University. Millennials, the generation born between 1981 and 1996, see America's role in the 21st century world in ways that, as a recently released study shows, are an intriguing…
A pregnant woman from Alberta, Canada, says she was served cleaning liquid in her McDonald's latte CBS3/Tim Boyle/Getty Images McDonald's is apologizing to a pregnant woman who says she took a sip of her morning latte and tasted cleaning fluid.…
U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore June 12, 2018. Jonathan Ernst / REUTERS President Trump tweeted a thank-you to North Korean dictator Kim Jong…
Pope Francis attends a meeting with faithful of the diocese of Rome at Saint John Lateran Basilica in Rome, Italy, in a May 14, 2018 file photo. REUTERS VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has changed church teaching about the death…
After more than 60 years, service members presumed killed in the Korean War arrived on U.S. soil Wednesday, their flag-draped caskets slowly filling a military hangar in Honolulu, Hawaii. But the government lab with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA),…
Dramatic new accounts from some of the 103 people who survived a plane crash in Durango, Mexico are giving insight into why it may have gone down. Cellphone video from inside the Aeroméxico plane shows heavy wind and hail during…
Zimbabwe soldiers and police were on the streets of Harare Thursday as authorities came under under increasing pressure to release results of the presidential election. The country's landmark vote -- the first since veteran autocrat Robert Mugabe was ousted last…
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern carries her newborn baby Neve Te Aroha Ardern Gayford with her partner Clarke Gayfor as she walks out of the Auckland Hospital in New Zealand, June 24, 2018. STRINGER / REUTERS New Zealand Prime…
Alexander Gukov interviewed after surviving thee days stuck on Latok. BBC News ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's military says it rescued a Russian climber stranded on a treacherous peak in the north after his fellow mountaineer fell to his death last week. An…
MIAMI — Video shot by a passenger shows the stormy weather Aeroméxico Flight 2431 encountered upon takeoff from Durango, Mexico, Tuesday. The plane appears to struggle to climb above land before eventually crashing down. In the moments after, panicked passengers are heard…
One of the winners of the award known as the Nobel Prize for mathematics had his gold medal stolen minutes after it was given to him. Caucher Birkar, a Kurdish refugee turned Cambridge University math professor, was among four winners…
Chipotle is among one of the companies breached by the FIN7 hacking group. Getty SEATTLE — Federal officials say three Ukrainians involved in a prolific cybercrime organization have been arrested. They are linked to hacking more than 100 companies in the…
People sit at the terrasse of a cafe during a summer night in Paris on June 27, 2018. Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images PARIS — French lawmakers gave final passage Wednesday to a bill that expands the criminal definition of child rape and…
This combination of pictures made on Aug. 1, 2018, shows French rapper Booba, left, on May 19, 2014, in Cannes, France, and French rapper Kaaris on March 25, 2015, in Paris. Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images Flights at a Paris airport were…
WASHINGTON -- The dirt on the ground is making climate change worse, a new study finds. Plants capture massive amounts of carbon, pumping it into the soil, where usually it stays for hundreds or thousands of years. Observations from across…
JOHANNESBURG -- Highly-skilled criminals are robbing vans transporting cash in South Africa at alarming rates. So far this year, there have been nearly 200 of these heists, oftentimes in broad daylight. CBS News correspondent Debora Patta says the brazen attacks…
Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan pose for a photo in Spain during their cycle tour of the world, in an image posted to their "SimplyCycling" blog. SimplyCycling The two Americans killed in an ISIS-claimed attack in Tajikistan over the weekend…
Photographs of journalists, (R-L) Orhan Dzhemal, Kirill Radchenko and Alexander Rastorguyev, who were recently killed in Central African Republic by unidentified assailants, are on display outside the Central House of Journalists in Moscow, Russia, Aug. 1, 2018. REUTERS MOSCOW --…
A Canadian junior hockey player who survived a bus crash that killed 16 people, including many of his teammates, is making a triumphant return to the ice. Ryan Straschnitzki was paralyzed from the chest down when his team's bus crashed…
A cordoned zone as Swedish police investigate after Sweden's royal jewels dating from the 17th century were stolen in the Strängnäs cathedral, west of Stockholm, July 31, 2018. Getty COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Police used helicopters to chase thieves who stole…
16 Photos School girls hold placards during a silent protest against violence against women, after the rape of two teenage girls in the Chatra and Pakur districts of Jharkhand, India, May 8, 2018. Getty PATNA, India -- Police in eastern…
Investigators are looking into what caused a packed Mexican airliner to crash shortly after take-off Tuesday. Aeroméxico Flight 2431 was carrying 99 passengers and four crew members when it went down in northern Mexico and burst into flames. Remarkably, no…
Women wearing niqab are pictured in front of the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen, Denmark, May 31, 2018. Getty COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Supporters and opponents of a ban on garments covering the face, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or…
