A shark attacked a teenager Monday afternoon as he swam in waist-deep water at Surfside Beach, along Texas's Gulf coast, local police said.

A stunt double for Angelina Jolie is suing Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in the United States over possible phone hacking, her attorney Mark Lewis told CNN on Tuesday.

Paris and Rome are lovely this time of year, but they're also packed with summer travelers.

Journalist Michael Hastings, known for his 2010 profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal that led to the officer's abrupt retirement, died in a car accident in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

The accelerating pace of the slaughter of elephants for their tusks has put African elephants at catastrophic risk in the coming decades. To make matters worse, some of the region's most notorious armed groups are taking tusks to finance their atrocities.