RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - After all the talk about staying out of the water in Rio de Janeiro, Serbian rowers Milos Vasic and Nenad Benik found themselves immersed in it on Day 1 of the Olympic regatta.
TRURO, Mass. (AP) - A Cape Cod town has closed three beaches after great white sharks were seen feasting on a small whale carcass.
(CBS News) - An officer assigned to the event said it was a controlled explosion of an unattended bag.
(CBS News) - With the official Summer Olympics kickoff this week, President Obama discussed the gathering of world-class athletes in Brazil in a new video, praising the dedication of Team USA and urging Americans to unite behind them.
(CBS News) - With the first locally transmitted cases of Zika virus coming to light in Florida recently, a top expert on disease control said it's likely the United States will see further local cases going forward
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) - Pope Francis says he won't describe Islam as "terrorist" since that's "not fair and not true."
DARBY, Pa. (AP) - A chance meeting during an Uber ride spawned a crowdfunding campaign to send a father to Brazil to see his son compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Health officials are puzzled about how the most basic baking ingredient - flour - became contaminated with bacteria normally found in animal feces.
LONDON (CBS News) -- There are fans with wands and wizard costumes, midnight book parties and throngs of excited muggles. Harry Potter's magic is back.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A pocket version of the U.S. Constitution has become a best-seller on Amazon.com.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - So the plumbing and electricity in the athletes' village took several days to fix. Who cares?
MEXICO CITY (CBS News) -- An American surfer was in serious but stable condition after he was attacked by a large crocodile at a popular tourist beach in Costa Rica on Friday, according to an emergency responder who credited the man's friend for fighting off the reptile with his bare hands.
BERLIN (CBS News) -- Police in the southern German city of Ansbach say a man was killed when an explosive device he was believed to be carrying went off near an open-air music festival, injuring 10 people.
BEIJING (CBS NEWS) - Siberian tigers at a wildlife park in Beijing mauled a woman to death and wounded another when they stepped out of their car in an enclosure, a Chinese state-run newspaper said.
RIO DE JANEIRO (CBS News) - Thousands of athletes arriving for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics could find major plumbing and electrical problems in their rooms at the Athletes Village with the games opening in just under two weeks.
MUNICH, Germany (CBS News) -- Investigators are learning more about the gunman whokilled at least nine people on Friday before turning his gun on himself.
CANBERRA, Australia (CBS News) - A cold and exhausted 65-year-old Russian balloonist came back to Earth with a bruising thud in the Australian Outback on Saturday after claiming a new world record by flying solo around the world nonstop in 11 days, officials said.
News updates and social media posts from Munich
ISTANBUL (CBS News) - A nationwide purge following a failed military coup in Turkey has led to the roundup, arrest and firing of thousands of people.
BERKELEY, California (CBS News) - University of California, Berkeley, officials confirmed Monday that one of their students was among the dead after a truck attack on a crowd on Bastille Day in Nice, France.
NICE, France (AP) - The process of identifying the victims of the Bastille Day truck attack in the French city of Nice has dragged into its third day Sunday.
Including social media posts from the scene
Ten injured when roller coaster derailed and crashed at a theme park in Scotland
Uncertainty following Thursday's Brexit vote.
