First aid shipment in months reaches besieged Madaya; starving Syrians weep

The first shipment of foreign aid since October reached the besieged Syrian city of Madaya on Monday, bringing starving residents to tears at the sight, a United Nations source told CNN.

A Mexican actress's tweet kick-started talks with 'El Chapo'

Without her help, Sean Penn says he never could have arranged a secret meeting with cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Jailed in North Korea, pastor Hyeon Soo Lim hopes to go home to Canada

The doors open and a prisoner is marched in by two stern-faced North Korean guards, their demeanor expressing authority and righteous disdain for the inmate.

Playground gang rape has NYPD asking public for help

New York police are looking for five men who forced a father at gunpoint to leave his daughter behind so they could take turns raping her, according to a press release.

U.S. B-52 bomber flies over S. Korea in solidarity after N. Korean nuclear claim

Days after North Korea claimed it tested a hydrogen bomb, the United States responded with a display of military might on the Korean Peninsula.

'El Chapo' dreamed of biopic; it helps lead to recapture, extradition process

Mexico will begin proceedings to extradite two-time prison escapee Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera to the United States, where he faces drug trafficking charges connected to his cartel, the Mexican attorney general said Saturday.

ISIS commander killed in Iraqi airstrike

The second deputy of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed during an Iraqi air force strike in the city of Barwana, just east of Haditha, the Iraqi military said Saturday.

Police clash with protesters angry about Cologne sex attacks

German protesters angry about the New Year's Eve mob sex attacks and muggings in Cologne, Germany, clashed with police on Saturday.

Iran-Saudi tensions: 6 nations label embassy attack terrorism

A six-nation Middle Eastern alliance agreed Saturday to characterize the recent attack on Saudi Arabia's embassy in Tehran as an act of terror -- strong language that marks an even further escalation in a tiff that has embroiled the region for days.

Silently protesting Muslim woman ejected from Trump rally

A Muslim woman wearing a hijab was escorted out of Donald Trump's campaign event on Friday by police after she stood up in silent protest during Trump's speech.