A photo posted on Instagram by Miss Iraq Universe 2017, Sarah Idan (right), shows her posing for a selfie with Miss Israel, Adar Gandelsman, ahead of the pageant in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nov. 13, 2017. Instagram/Sarah Idan JERUSALEM -- Sarah Idan,…
The 2018 FIFA World Cup opened today with host Russia taking on Saudi Arabia. Russia opened the scoring in the 12th minute and never looked back, going on to a 5-0 victory to open the tournament. Russia vs. Saudi Arabia…
A member of the White Helmets evacuates a child following reported government shelling on the rebel-held town of Douma, east of the Syrian capital Damascus, on October 26, 2016. Abd Doumany/AFP/Getty Images WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has authorized the…
MOSCOW -- Russian women and visiting World Cup soccer fans: be fruitful and multiply. After a lawmaker caused a backlash on social media by advising Russian women against getting involved with soccer fans from different countries and races, one of…
Major military exercises on the Korean peninsula between the U.S. and South Korea have been suspended, while the U.S. and North Korea negotiate the terms of a denuclearization agreement, CBS News confirms. AFP first reported the suspension of the exercises.…
Physicist Albert Einstein delivers a lecture at the offices of the Mt. Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, Calif., in 1930. Getty Albert Einstein's travel diaries from the early 1920s include racist and xenophobic remarks, according to multiple reports. The writings record…
German police officers in protective gear leave an apartment building during an operation in Cologne, Germany, June 12, 2018. AP BERLIN -- Federal prosecutors in Germany have arrested a 29-year-old man for producing biological weapons at his home in the…
Britain's newest royal is being put to the test today. Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, joined Queen Elizabeth for her first royal engagement without her husband, Prince Harry. The queen and the former actress rode the royal train to the…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Troops in a Saudi-led coalition captured a town south of Yemen's port city of Hodeida on Thursday as fierce fighting and airstrikes pounded the area, officials said, on the second day of an offensive to…
SEOUL, South Korea -- President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appear to be on different pages about when the U.S. might start to peel back sanctions against North Korea. Mr. Trump said on Tuesday, immediately after his meeting…
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is holding a media availability after meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Thursday. Pompeo made the trip after President Trump's historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jon Un in Singapore where…
Australian soldiers are seen at a forward operating base in Mirwais, Afghanistan, in a Jan. 20, 2010 file photo. AFP/Getty Images CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia's prime minister on Thursday joined critics of elite Australian Special Forces troops who were photographed more…
Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour (2nd from R) passes U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley (seated L) during a vote on the adoption of a draft resolution by the United Nations General Assembly to deplore the use of excessive…
President Trump shows the document that he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed acknowledging the progress of the talks and pledge to keep momentum going, after their summit at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore on…
MIAMI -- Politicians are being targeted in Mexico ahead of the country's July elections, and the latest murder was caught on surveillance video. The footage shows Mexican congressional candidate Fernando Puron posing for a selfie with a supporter after a…
NEW YORK -- The rate at which ice is melting on Antarctica has tripled in recent years, according to a study published Wednesday in Nature, a scientific journal. Coastal communities along the U.S. could feel the impact of a continued…
Two tourists fell to their deaths while apparently trying to take a selfie from a cliff overlooking a popular beach in Portugal, according to multiple news reports. An Australian man and his British partner are believed to have died early…
After a historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in Seoul to meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. They will discuss President Trump's decision to halt what he called "war games,"…
A protection mask is pictured at the OPCW (The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) headquarters in The Hague, The Netherlands, on April 20, 2017. John Thys/AFP/Getty Images The global chemical weapons watchdog says the nerve agent sarin and…
CANBERRA, Australia -- An Australian man who alleges Google defamed him on Wednesday won a court battle to sue the search engine giant. Milorad "Michael" Trkulja was shot in the back in 2004 in a restaurant in Melbourne, Australia's second…
Chess champion Soumya Swaminathan of India is seen in a photo posted to her Facebook page. Soumya Swaminathan/FACEBOOK NEW DELHI -- A female Indian chess player said Wednesday she has decided to not participate in an Asian championship being held…
A file photo shows a Japanese police officer at a crime scene. REUTERS TOKYO -- A Japanese wife has told police the body she thought was of her missing husband belonged to a stranger after her spouse turned up alive…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen's exiled government began an assault Wednesday morning on Yemen's port city of Hodeida, a crucial battle in the 3-year-old conflict that aid agencies warned could push the Arab world's poorest…
England's iconic red telephone booths are making a comeback. Outdoor payphones have fallen out of use with the rise of cellphones but people are finding imaginative new ways to make use of the relics that have been part of the…