Did you know women weren't allowed to compete at the first Olympic Games?
Serena Williams puts her Olympic title on the line, while Novak Djokovic seeks his first gold medal.
It's a race to the starting line for the Nigerian Olympic men's soccer team.
5 ways the vote to leave the European Union will reverberate in the U.S. stock market, trade, the value of the pound and more.
Pyongyang’s ally China had said Washington’s decision last month to deploy a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system would only worsen tensions on the Korean peninsula.
Athletes in town for the 2016 Olympic Games and the mayor of Rio de Janeiro have joined the chorus of fans asking for the free app to be released in Brazil.
Coach Jill Ellis says the United States women's soccer team is determined to follow up World Cup victory with Olympic gold.
An international team of researchers have discovered a large area at the center of the Milky Way that is completely devoid of pulsating stars.
The latest launches come just two weeks after the isolated country fired three ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast in an apparent show of force.
The suit against game makers Niantic, Nintendo, and The Pokémon Company accuses players of trespassing on personal property.
The Reserve Bank of Australia’s policy board decided to cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to an all-time low of 1.50 percent.
Heavy rains and massive flooding killed two people and destroyed five buildings in Ellicott City, Maryland, over the weekend.
On Monday, official data from China pointed to a contraction in the country's manufacturing sector.
Yuriko Koike, Japan’s first female defense minister, beat fellow member of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s party Hiroya Masuda, as well as liberal journalist Shuntaro Torigoe.
The series' eighth story comes out Sunday. Gear up with trivia about the books and movies.
Ukraine is considering erecting one of the world’s largest solar panel farms in the 1,000-mile exclusion zone of the ill-fated city.
Second quarter GDP grew at a lower-than-expected pace of 1.2 percent, despite strong consumer spending. Bobbi Rebell reports.
Okinawa hosts 50,000 U.S. nationals, including 30,000 military personnel and civilian contractors, and is a strategically important base to counter Chinese influence.
The start-up date of the $24 billion plant — the UK's first new one in decades — has been delayed several times.
Japan’s central bank also suggested that a major overhaul of its stimulus program may be forthcoming.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership has become of the most fundamental issues of the 2016 election.
Russia and China will conduct joint naval and air drills in the contested waters in September.