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Disney has announced that Halle Bailey will star in a live-action remake of "The Little Mermaid" and the news has sparked a conversation online about color-blind casting.

Kor forgave Nazis and founded CANDLES, or Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors. She died Thursday at 85.

About four people try to stow away in the wheel well of international passenger planes each year.

The earthquake struck near the town of Ridgecrest, about 150 miles northeast of Los Angeles, and was the strongest to hit the region in 20 years.

The actor plays a dentist fixated on learning why a patient with a seemingly perfect life killed himself. For Kinnear, who is making his debut as a director, it was a "life-affirming" screenplay.

The city, condemned in the Bible and a source of black magic in the Quran, has been ravaged by war and neglect. For decades, preservationists have pushed for the site to be restored.

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have been campaigning across Britain. The 160,000-member ruling Conservative Party are the only people entitled to vote for the new party leader, who will also become the next prime minister.

The U.S. job market picked up steam in June. Employers added 224,000 jobs, more than triple May's numbers. The unemployment rate inched up to 3.7% as more workers entered the job market.

Iraqis are jubilant over the designation of the ancient city of Babylon as a world heritage site. Damage from railways, poor restorations and U.S. troops are now considered part of the local history.

A U.N. report accuses Venezuela's government of using death squads to commit many extrajudicial killings. The violence came amid intense political turmoil as the opposition challenged the president.