Real Madrid's Croatia midfielder Luka Modric has won the 2018 Ballon d'Or award for the best player in men's football, while Norwegian forward Ada Hegerberg scooped the inaugural women's trophy. Modric's win on Monday at the

Irfah Satiri slightly bends down to drag a plastic bag out of the mud at the bottom of a waterway. "Maybe, it's been here for years," he says. The paddy fields that used to

After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft has arrived at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its first visitor in billions of years. The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex on Monday pulled within 19km of the diamond-shaped space

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, whose controversial war on drugs has killed thousands since he took power in 2016, has said he used cannabis to stay awake, but later retracted it, saying he was joking. The

(CNN)The US embassy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was closed after the US received intelligence that an ISIS-linked group could carry out attacks against US interests there, two US officials tell CNN.

New York (CNN Business)5G is already here, but you can't do much to access those super-fast speeds unless you live in a specific place with a particular piece of technology. That's about to change.Samsung

New York (CNN Business)Ikea is ditching its famous Swedish meatballs and cavernous blue-and-yellow stores to crack big cities. The company announced on Monday that it will open up a 17,530 square-foot showroom on Manhattan's

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  Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika named Ahmed Ouyahia, head of the Rassemblement National Democratique (RND), the second-largest party of Algeria and an ally of the National Liberation Front (FLN), as prime minister on Aug.

CAIRO: An Egyptian criminal court has ordered the conditional release of prominent blogger and journalist Wael Abbas, a judicial source said on Monday, rejecting an appeal by state security prosecutors to keep him in