The powerful storms that ripped through parts of the United States last week killed at least five people in Mississippi, Florida and Alabama, officials said.

At least 138 people have been killed and more than 560 injured after a series of coordinated bomb blasts at a number of high-end hotels and churches across Sri Lanka. CNN's Nikhil Kumar reports.

Nina McGehee always knew that her family fled Europe before World War II broke out. But she only recently learned about what they left behind.

Oscar-nominated director John Singleton, best known for the movies "Boyz n the Hood" and "Poetic Justice," is in intensive care at an undisclosed hospital after he suffered a stroke this week, his family said Saturday.

Growing up in Japan, musician Oki Kano never knew he was part of a "vanishing people."