Brittney Griner’s legal team filed an appeal against a Russian court’s verdict sentencing the WNBA star to nine years in prison for smuggling drugs into Russia, Griner’s lawyer Maria Blagovolina told CNN on Monday.Story Published at: August 15, 2022 at 11:59AM

At midday, Shakeela Rahmati starts the long walk from her home in a poor neighborhood in the hills above Kabul. Story Published at: August 15, 2022 at 02:24PM

Rescuers have recovered six bodies from the site of a fireworks warehouse that exploded in the Armenian capital of Yerevan and more than a dozen people remain missing, the emergencies ministry said on Monday.Story Published at: August 15, 2022 at 01:39PM

The American economy didn’t get the memo that it’s supposed to already be in a recession.Story Published at: August 15, 2022 at 11:37AM

Credit agencies know a lot about Americans. The agencies accumulate information, such as Social Security numbers, birthdays, how much savings people have, how much debt they’re in and how late they pay their bills.Story Published at: August 14, 2022 at 04:25PM

Brazilian woman Sabine Coll Boghici, 48, was arrested on Wednesday on allegations she was part of a bizarre scheme to defraud her 82-year-old mother, Genevieve Boghici, the wife of the late art collector Jean Boghici, out of money, artwork and jewelry totaling some 724 million reais ($142.42 million).Story Published at: August 11, 2022 at 10:22AM

At least eight people, including four US tourists, were wounded in a shooting attack targeting a bus near the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City early Sunday morning.Story Published at: August 15, 2022 at 03:25AM

At least 18 children were among the dozens of people known to have died after a fire broke out at a church in Giza’s Imbaba neighborhood in greater Cairo on Sunday, according to hospital documents seen by CNN.Story Published at: August 14, 2022 at 06:48PM

When Fawzia Amini worked as a senior judge in Afghanistan’s Supreme Court, she presided over cases of violent crimes against women, hearing harrowing and heart-breaking accounts of child marriage, sexual assault and femicide. Story Published at: August 14, 2022 at 05:04AM

The person most likely to replace Boris Johnson as leader of Britain’s governing Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the UK is a political chameleon who has gone from radical abolitionist to flag-bearer of the Euroskeptic, Conservative right. Story Published at: August 14, 2022 at 05:04AM