Posted: 1:08 PM Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez celebrated his 58th birthday at a re-election campaign rally Saturday, appearing vigorous after declaring himself free of cancer earlier this month.
Posted: 12:05 PM The bodies of two American climbers were discovered Saturday afternoon in the mountains of Peru, ending a days-long search for the men, friends and family said.
Updated: 12:05 PM Hyundai is recalling more than 220,000 Santa Fe SUVs and Sonata sedans because of potential problems with their air bags.
Posted: 11:53 AM The deadly Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda this month, Ugandan health officials said on Saturday, ending weeks of speculation about the cause of a strange disease that had many people fleeing their homes.
Posted: 11:46 AM Syrian troops fired tank shells and artillery Sunday at neighborhoods in Aleppo as rebels tried to repel a government ground assault against their positions in Syria's largest city, activists said.
Posted: 11:28 AM Zara Phillips, granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, had a few royal fans in the stands as she made her Olympic equestrian debut Sunday, earning a respectable score in the eventing dressage competition despite a slight mistake.
Posted: 5:50 PM Police protecting the Olympic Park on opening night said Saturday they arrested more than 130 activists on bicycles involved in an hours-long effort to breach the park's security cordon.
Posted: 5:42 PM How could anyone screw up a trip to Britain, America's closest ally and a feel-good place brimming these days with national pride and excitement over hosting the 30th Olympic Games?
Posted: 11:18 AM A gorilla has died in the Prague Zoo after accidentally hanging himself with a climbing rope, zoo officials said Friday.
Posted: 11:17 AM Gu Kailai's day in court will likely be soon — and short.
Posted: 11:15 AM Two Western photojournalists in Syria were held captive for a week by Islamic militants before being rescued by Syrian rebels, one of the men said Friday.
Posted: 9:40 AM A search team has reached the base camp and spotted the apparent tracks of two 29-year-old U.S. mountaineers who have not been heard from since July 11 when they set off to climb a 20,000-foot glacier-capped peak in the Cordillera Blanca range of northern Peru.
Posted: 9:38 AM Member states failed to reach agreement Friday on a new U.N. treaty to regulate the multibillion dollar global arms trade, and some diplomats and supporters blamed the United States for triggering the unraveling of the monthlong negotiating conference.
Posted: 9:35 AM Sir Paul McCartney closed the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony leading the crowd in a mass sing-a-long of "Hey Jude."
Posted: 9:11 AM Pakistan's ambassador to the United States is calling for an end to CIA drone strikes ahead of an intelligence summit in Washington between the two countries expected next week.
Posted: 9:02 AM Top-ranked Yi Siling of China captured the first gold medal of the London Olympics in the women's 10-meter air rifle at Royal Artillery Barracks on Saturday.
Posted: 11:23 PM Tatu, a male gorilla, climbs ropes in the Prague zoological garden, on July 12, 2009. (AP Photo/CTK/ Rene Fluger)
Posted: 11:21 PM As the 2012 summer Olympics opens today, it's easy to imagine that all the activity, the pageantry, the swarms of purple-clad volunteers must be engaged in some highly profitable activity. Otherwise, why would so many people get sucked in?
Posted: 11:18 PM The new research has some attendees at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. hopeful for a cure.
Posted: 10:59 PM Rebels and regime fighters girded for a decisive battle in Aleppo as world powers issued dire warnings of a government onslaught in the sprawling and densely populated Syrian city.
Posted: 6:07 PM The queen and James Bond gave the London Olympics a royal entrance like no other in an opening ceremony that rolled to the rock of the Beatles, the Stones and The Who.
Updated: 2:10 PM Actress Lupe Ontiveros, who co-starred in the hit films "Selena" and "As Good As It Gets," has died, CNN confirmed on Friday. She was 69.
Posted: 12:35 PM The long-time President of CNN Worldwide, Jim Walton, says he will leave the company at the end of the year.
Posted: 11:17 AM The first world records of the London 2012 Olympics have been set by a blind South Korean archer -- hours before Friday's much-anticipated opening ceremony was due to begin.
Posted: 10:45 PM As Mitt Romney gets ready to depart London for Israel this weekend, the presumptive GOP nominee reaffirmed his position Thursday that military force would be an option, though only as a last resort, in trying to prevent Iran from building its suspected nuclear weapons program.
