Jennifer Maddox is no stranger to the violence in the city of Chicago.

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Amid the violence in Chicago, Jennifer Maddox is dedicated to giving young people on the South Side a safe space to learn, grow and succeed.

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For more than two decades, CNN Hero Jennifer Maddox has observed the growing plight facing young people on Chicago's South Side. Today, she offers hope.

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The scale of the task facing UK legislators as they try to extricate Britain from the European Union was revealed on Thursday when the British government set out how the process would work.

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Theresa May is taking a lead from a frequently divorced former monarch in preparing the way for post-Brexit Britain.

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The thousands of Russians who took to the streets over the weekend may not have vented their fury directly at Vladimir Putin, but the President certainly took note of the message.

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Africans living in northern India are locking themselves indoors in terror after a spate of mob attacks left several hospitalized.

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Japan is considering a further step away from its long-held pacifist stance with a proposal which would allow it, for the first time since World War II, to strike overseas targets.

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Canadian police think an improvised explosive device blew up Thursday at the same building as the provincial courthouse in Saskatoon.

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Regaining his senses, Matt Zeller checked his watch. It was 16:50, April 28, 2008. "[I thought] this is the day and the time and place I die," he remembered, years later.

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Some Queenslanders didn't take police warnings to stay out of flood waters very seriously -- until a bull shark washed up in the street.

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A little before midnight on Monday, March 20, James Harris Jackson, a white Army veteran from Maryland, set upon a stranger on a New York City street and stabbed him to death.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet with US President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on April 6 and 7, the two nations' governments have announced.

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Cristiano Ronaldo has the looks, the medals and the money. And now even an airport -- in Madeira, where he was born -- has been renamed in his honor, with a new bust to boot also unveiled Wednesday of the Real Madrid star.

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The Spratly Islands are a nebula of biological wonder -- an archipelago of atolls and reefs that support 600 coral species and 6,000 fish species -- including huge schools of batfish, bumphead parrotfish, scalloped hammerhead sharks, and dolphins.

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Feeling too fancy for normal earth-bound existence? A new skyscraper concept would elevate your living situation -- literally.

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Visiting a gas station is usually an inconsequential part of a road trip.

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People tend to wonder if the iconic photo of Ninalee Craig was staged.

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Perfumery has always been an intricate science; much more effort goes into capturing a scent than those outside the industry might imagine.

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Each year, just as the snow below the Swiss Alps starts to melt, over 120,000 people descend on a little town called Basel, for the world's largest watch and jewelry fair.

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In the words of India's labor minister, women have just been given a "humble gift" of six months paid maternity leave. Experts say it could sour very quickly.

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It is proof that even one of the world's best soccer players is not above the law?

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Jorge Matadamas is a Mexican citizen, but at 23 years old, everything about the country is brand new to him.

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The Trump administration wants the first $1 billion of border wall funding to cover 62 miles -- including replacing some existing fencing along the southern border.

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Lawmakers, officials and watchdog groups have all offered their takes on how best to investigate Russia's attempts to influence the US presidential election.

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The Russian banker who met with Jared Kushner in December has ties to the Russian government and was appointed to his job by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Key House Democrats are calling on Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes to recuse himself from an investigation into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, widening a stunning partisan split over the probe.

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Tropical Cyclone Debbie barreled down Tuesday on northeast Australia, dumping torrential rain on the region and leaving more than 50,000 homes without power.

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"It wasn't quite stilettos at dawn," read the Daily Mail's front-page tease, alongside a photograph of British Prime Minister Theresa May and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

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Gina Soden has spent the last six years seeking out Europe's grand and abandoned buildings, from hospital asylums and palaces to boarded up schools and disused power stations.

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Internationally, Ahmed Kathrada didn't have the name recognition of his close friend and cellmate Nelson Mandela, but he was one of South Africa's best-loved and revered anti-apartheid activists -- and a moral compass for the nation.

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Uber is saying "farvel" -- or farewell -- to Denmark.

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Consumers of Sprite and Fanta have more to worry about than rotting teeth according to a Lagos High Court judge, who ruled that the Coca-Cola products could be "poisonous."

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US President Donald Trump has vowed to wipe Islamist terrorism "from the face of the Earth" and says he wants the US to "start winning wars again" -- but he's gotten off to a rocky start in the Middle East.

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Voodoo Manufacturing does 3D print manufacturing, a growing field that represents a new stripe of industrial jobs growing in the U.S.

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Long before product placement became commonplace, cars, watches, pens, cameras, soft drinks and other identifiable items were chosen as props per their suitability for the role.

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A coalition airstrike on an ISIS truck laden with explosives led to the deaths of dozens of civilians in Mosul, a senior Iraqi officer said Sunday.

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The US and Iraqi governments are investigating the allegations that civilians have been killed in recent coalition airstrikes in Mosul. CNN's Arwa Damon reports.

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Spokesman for the U.S. led coalition against ISIS, Lt. Col. Joe Scrocca says that, "civilian should probably take their chances in the city" of Mosul.

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A series of anti-corruption protests swept through Russia on Sunday, leading to the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators, including top Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny.

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Tobias Ellwood, the UK's Foreign Office minister, became one of the prominent faces of last week's London attack when he was photographed administering aid to a wounded police officer. Sadly, PC Keith Palmer passed away, and on Monday, Ellwood issued a statement honoring him and reflecting on the aftermath of last week's events.

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A precious gold coin, that's in the Guinness Book of Records for its unsurpassed purity, was stolen from a museum in Germany in the early hours of Monday.

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Defiant Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been jailed for 15 days over his role in a mass anti-corruption protest in Moscow.

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Six aid workers were killed in an ambush in South Sudan on Saturday, the UN's humanitarian coordinator for the country said.

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Sixteen of 29 inmates are still on the run after they made an audacious escape by tunneling underneath a Mexican prison wall, authorities said.

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President Nicolas Maduro said he has asked the United Nations for help in dealing with Venezuela's medicine shortages, which have grown severe as the country grapples with a crippling economic crisis.

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Leaders of the remaining 27 European Union states have gathered in Italy's capital to mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, which led to the bloc's formation.

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