Category Archives: World News

The U.S. House of Representatives rejected the Iran nuclear deal. The Republicans’ message of disapproval comes one day after Democrats were able to block efforts to kill the deal.

Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said during a speech that Israel will not exist in another quarter century, state-run media report.

A trio of unique animals and a BMX stunt rider were among the new world record setters in the 2016 edition of the Guinness World Records.

A young Yazidi woman tells CNN’s Atika Shubert that she was handpicked by ISIS leader Abu Bakar Al Baghdadi, held captive and forced to serve his wives and children.

12-year-old Lydia Sebastian got a perfect score on the Mensa admission test. She spoke to CNN Today about her amazing accomplishment.

Astronaut Scott Kelly shot timelapses of the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis while aboard the International Space Station 250 miles above Earth.

A ‘superhenge’ discovered near Stonehenge in England is believed to have been built 4,500 years ago. CNN’s Erin McLaughlin reports.

United Airlines CEO Jeff Smisek has stepped down during a federal corruption investigation. CNN’s Richard Quest has the details.

Why would so many people risk so much making the treacherous sea crossing to Europe? CNN’s Ivan Watson reports.

Pope Francis announces revisions to the process by which Catholics may annul their marriages in yet another sign of the pontiff pushing his church to be more welcoming and merciful.