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Puerto Rico has been sending athletes to the Olympics since 1948, a stretch in which it amassed eight Olympic medals, none of them gold. Tennis star Monica Puig changed that on Saturday.

Since the beginning of 2015, the number of soldiers on the streets of Paris has grown from 400 to 6,500. Their presence reassures and worries people at the same time.

Deck the halls, stuff the stockings and sharpen your pencils. It's time for a holiday history exam.

A Pew survey finds parents' worries vary widely based on income levels. Among other things, Pew also finds most parents — particularly young moms — think they're doing a good job raising their kids.

Kurt Masur, the German conductor whose career spanned from leading an orchestra in East Germany to more than a decade of reshaping the New York Philharmonic, has died at age 88.

Answering the call of nature in the open is all too common when families don't have other options. But now the country has its first zone that's free of open defecation.

A clever device uses technology developed by the military to make chlorine quickly and cheaply. The goal is to give schools and hospitals around the world an easy way to purify water.

With no elections left to run, President Obama appears to be acting on his joke from earlier this year about having a to-do list that, well, rhymes with "bucket."

The two men are from Eritrea. They're rising (and climbing) stars. And they're changing the image of the bike in Africa, where it's often looked down on as a poor person's transportation.

What do you do when a plane crash-lands at your country's only international airport and you have no equipment to move it out of the way? Nepalese airport officials grapple with that question.