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Sep 21, 2020
When Daniel Andrews, premier of the Australian state of Victoria, declared a lockdown over the coronavirus, some detractors on the right labeled him a "dictator" and said he was trying to build "a gulag."
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Sep 21, 2020
Chinese officials have officially acknowledged birth rates in Xinjiang dropped by almost a third in 2018, compared to the previous year, in a letter to CNN in which they also denied reports of forced sterilization and genocide by authorities in the far western region.
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Sep 20, 2020
A British man and his Australian colleague who worked for an non-governmental organization that mapped unexploded ordnance have been killed in an explosion in the Solomon Islands.
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Sep 20, 2020
How do you count 1.3 billion people amid a pandemic? China will be finding out as the world's most populous country launches its seventh national census on November 1.
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Sep 20, 2020
Tadej Pogacar became the first Slovenian to win the Tour de France as the famous three-week race ended on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on Sunday.
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Sep 20, 2020
Anti-government protesters in Thailand delivered a list of demands for monarchy reform to Bangkok authorities -- an explosive and unprecedented move in a country that reveres the king.
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Sep 20, 2020
Tucked away from Skid Row's main thoroughfare, Q sweeps the sidewalk outside her makeshift tent before her best friend and "angel" arrives with some food.
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Sep 20, 2020
Poland is more dependent on coal than any other EU state, for around 75% of its electricity. A full 8% of that electricity comes from a single brown coal mine, Turow, in the country's southwest. Phil Black travels there to understand the pain of the energy transition -- a change necessary to avoid even greater suffering from climate change.
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Sep 19, 2020
The Syrian government accused the Dutch government of supporting terrorism on Saturday in response to the Netherlands' invocation of an anti-torture convention against Damascus.
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Sep 19, 2020
The crowd recoiled as tear gas canisters rained down on them and riot police advanced up the street, carrying shields and batons.
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Sep 19, 2020
Archaeologists in Mexico have confirmed that a shipwreck discovered off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula once carried captured Mayans who were sold into slavery.
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Sep 19, 2020
Gareth Bale completed a season-long loan move from Real Madrid to Tottenham on Saturday, seven years after leaving the English Premier League club.
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Sep 19, 2020
Airline flights spread Covid, two studies show
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Sep 19, 2020
Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny says he is still unable to use his phone properly or pour himself a glass of water, but is on a "clear road" towards recovering from his near-fatal poisoning.
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Sep 19, 2020
A police officer traveling as part of British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab's protection detail has been suspended, after they reportedly left their gun on a plane.
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Sep 19, 2020
You may be through with 2020 already, but brace yourselves. The next 50 to 120 days could be the most volatile globally for decades.
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Sep 18, 2020
With the end of the year approaching, travelers holding onto hope they may still get to enjoy a quick winter escape in Asia are facing some hard truths right now.
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Sep 18, 2020
The storm, otherwise known as a "medicane," had sustained winds of 100 kph (62 mph) just before landfall.
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Sep 18, 2020
No longer confined to territories here on Earth, Russia has now staked its claim on Venus, saying it is a "Russian planet."
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Sep 18, 2020
Canadian police have charged a 20-year-old man with dangerous driving after he was arrested for allegedly being asleep at the wheel of a 2019 Tesla Model S while it was operating in its semi-autonomous "Autopilot" mode.
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Sep 18, 2020
Saudi Arabia has signed a series of deals to provide more than $200 million in funding to United Nations aid agencies operating in Yemen, just days after a CNN investigation highlighted a crisis in aid funding for the war-stricken nation.
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Sep 18, 2020
Mariachi, a musical tradition in Mexico, and its musicians have been forced to adapt as crowded plazas are no longer safe during the coronavirus pandemic. CNN's Matt Rivers reports.
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Sep 18, 2020
Temporary houses constructed for South Africans as part of the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic are now falling apart. The government's Special Investigating Unit told CNN they are looking at more than 700 companies linked to emergency Covid-19 contracts for possible crimes. CNN's David McKenzie reports.
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Sep 18, 2020
Alexey Navalny is out of a coma and off a ventilator, just weeks after his near-fatal poisoning. Now the Kremlin critic is planning his return home to Russia, where his list of enemies is as long as it is powerful.
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Sep 18, 2020
A high-profile United States official is visiting Taiwan for the second time in two months, the latest sign of warming ties between Washington and Taipei, as Beijing escalates pressure on the self-governed island through a series of military drills and aircraft incursions.
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Sep 18, 2020
• Latest on Covid-19: Global cases have passed 30M
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Sep 18, 2020
• Latest on Covid-19: Global cases have passed 30M
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Sep 17, 2020
The United Nations welcomes the decision by Libya's internationally recognized Prime Minister to step down by the end of October, a UN statement released Thursday said.
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Sep 17, 2020
The Trump administration is expected to soon approve another major weapons sale including drones to Taiwan, according to congressional and administration sources. The move comes as the US and Taiwan are strengthening ties and amid mounting tensions between Washington and Beijing.
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Sep 17, 2020
As the Atlantic hurricane season continues to shatter records for the number of storms, it appears parts of Europe will be seeing some tropical activity of their own this week.
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Sep 17, 2020
The Nintendo 3DS is discontinued.
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Sep 17, 2020
George Ahearn, who grew up in the farming town of Othello, Washington, co-founded EastWest Food Rescue after learning that Covid-19 was costing local farmers so much business that they were willing to destroy their crops.
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Sep 17, 2020
This holiday season will see a showdown between new consoles from two of the biggest names in gaming: Sony and Microsoft.
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Sep 17, 2020
Traces of poison were found on a bottle of water from the hotel room in Siberia where Alexey Navalny stayed before falling ill, the Russian opposition politician's team said Thursday.
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Sep 17, 2020
Traces of poison were found on a bottle of water from the hotel room in Siberia where Alexey Navalny stayed before falling ill, the Russian opposition politician's team said Thursday.
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Sep 17, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has battered Richard Branson's business empire. Now, the billionaire is going on the offensive.
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Sep 17, 2020
Villagers who refuse to wear masks are being forced by local authorities to dig graves for victims of Covid-19 in one part of rural Indonesia to help convince others to do their part to help stop the pandemic. CNN's Selina Wang reports.
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Sep 17, 2020
A high-profile United States official is visiting Taiwan for the second time in two months, the latest sign of warming ties between Washington and Taipei, as Beijing escalates pressure on the self-governed island through a series of military drills and aircraft incursions.
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Sep 16, 2020
With her scuba mask on, slowly diving beneath the surface of the water, Emma Camp encountered a world she had never experienced before: an underwater city of vivid color.
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Sep 16, 2020
With her scuba mask on, slowly diving beneath the surface of the water, Emma Camp encountered a world she had never experienced before: an underwater city of vivid color.
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Sep 16, 2020
The Justice Department ordered an Al Jazeera online news platform based in the US to register as a foreign agent on Monday, declaring that the outlet is "an agent of the Government of Qatar," according to a letter from the Justice Department obtained by CNN.
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Sep 16, 2020
After several teasers and mini-events, Sony has finally revealed how much the PlayStation 5 will cost.
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Sep 16, 2020
More than 1,000 Orthodox Jews are waiting on the Belarus-Ukraine border, after their attempts to enter the country for a religious pilgrimage were rebuffed due to coronavirus concerns.
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Sep 16, 2020
More than 1,000 Orthodox Jews are waiting on the Belarus-Ukraine border, after their attempts to enter the country for a religious pilgrimage were rebuffed due to coronavirus concerns.
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Sep 16, 2020
More than 1,000 Orthodox Jews are waiting on the Belarus-Ukraine border, after their attempts to enter the country for a religious pilgrimage were rebuffed due to coronavirus concerns.
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Sep 16, 2020
It may still be the dog days of summer but there could be a blizzard on Wall Street Wednesday. Snowflake, a cloud data warehousing firm that has the backing of Salesforce and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, is set to go public in what stands to be the biggest software IPO ever.
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Sep 16, 2020
Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week.
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Sep 16, 2020
Apple's newly announced subscription bundles are the company's latest effort to push its music, streaming video, gaming and other services on users.
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Sep 16, 2020
CNN's Matt Rivers breaks down the strange saga of Mexico's presidential plane, which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been trying to get rid of since he took power in December 2018.
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Sep 16, 2020
Barbados will remove Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and become a republic by next year, its government has announced, making it the first country to drop the monarch in nearly three decades.
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Sep 16, 2020
The huge shock to many of the world's biggest economies from the coronavirus pandemic may not be quite as bad as economists feared just a few months ago.
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Sep 16, 2020
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan called for rapists and child molesters to be chemically castrated when asked in an interview about a rape that garnered national attention in Pakistan.
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Sep 15, 2020
President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, hailed the US brokered peace treaties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on Tuesday as the beginning of "a new Middle East" and signaled that the Trump administration is making progress in getting more countries in the region, including Saudi Arabia, to recognize Israel.
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Sep 15, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech at the White House on the historic peace accord between Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
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Sep 15, 2020
A little more than a year ago, WeWork's parent company, The We Company, filed to take the co-working company public.
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Sep 15, 2020
Amazon is launching high-end fashion luxury stores -- but if you want to buy anything, chances are you'll need to get in line.
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Sep 15, 2020
Klarna, the "buy now, pay later" payment service loved by Europeans, has been valued at $10.65 billion in an investment round led by US private equity firm Silver Lake.
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Sep 15, 2020
Actor John Boyega has ended his association with perfume brand Jo Malone after the company controversially cut him from a commercial for the Chinese market.
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Sep 15, 2020
Despite a rocky performance for stocks in recent weeks, Wall Street has remained level-headed, sticking to predictions through the end of the year and encouraging clients to stay the course.
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Sep 15, 2020
The LEGO Group has announced plans to package its products in recyclable paper rather than single-use plastic.
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Sep 15, 2020
Birds are the undisputed masters of aerodynamics.
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Sep 15, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed the world's economies into historic slumps. But China is bucking the trend.
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Sep 15, 2020
For Ha Sze-yuen, the sea surrounding Hong Kong is more than just a backdrop for sunsets and beaches.
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Sep 14, 2020
The Trump administration issued new import restrictions on Monday against Chinese companies it accuses of using slave labor, including products from suspected mass prison camps in China's western Xinjiang region.
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Sep 14, 2020
As news spread that Oracle had reached an agreement to become TikTok's partner in the United States, in a deal that could keep the app alive in the country, some TikTokers started posting celebratory videos calling the enterprise software giant the platform's "savior."
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Sep 14, 2020
Thousands of Australian citizens all around the globe are stranded, unable to return home because Australia has set a cap for how many people can enter the country every week, leaving many of their own citizens stuck in foreign lands.
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Sep 14, 2020
Demand for oil may have peaked last year, according to BP, which says the global market for crude might never recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
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Sep 14, 2020
No job, no visa, no health care -- and barred from returning home. This powder keg of misfortunes is the current reality for tens of thousands of expats who hold the world's ninth most powerful passport.
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Sep 14, 2020
Terry Branstad will be stepping down as United States Ambassador to China after more than three years in Beijing, a source confirmed to CNN Monday.
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Sep 13, 2020
If Shinzo Abe was perhaps born to be Japan's prime minister, the path to political stardom for his potential successor was hardly guaranteed.
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Sep 13, 2020
Lewis Hamilton wore a T-shirt remembering Breonna Taylor on the six-month anniversary of her death when he took to the victory podium Sunday after winning the Tuscan Grand Prix at Mugello, Italy.
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Sep 13, 2020
When Donald Trump ran for President, he promised a "better deal" to constrain Iran's nuclear program and pledged to pressure Tehran into curbing its aggressive behavior across the Middle East. Like so many of President Trump's promises, these proved to be just empty words. Instead, he recklessly tossed away a policy that was working to keep America safe and replaced it with one that has worsened the threat.
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Sep 13, 2020
CNN's Jake Tapper breaks down why Disney thanking Chinese authorities in the credits of the company's newest blockbuster "Mulan" is problematic.
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Sep 13, 2020
She said earlier this year that she was "done being shy," and tennis star Naomi Osaka duly found her voice at the 2020 US Open.
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Sep 13, 2020
Apple usually announces a buzzy new lineup of iPhones at its hotly anticipated September event. But not this year.
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Sep 13, 2020
A British-Iranian mother and charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe could face an additional year in an Iranian prison as new charges are filed against her, her lawyer has said.
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Sep 12, 2020
Police on the Greek island of Lesbos fired teargas at a group of migrants on Saturday protesting against a new camp being set up to replace one destroyed this week by fire, according to local media.
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Sep 12, 2020
British designer and businessman Terence Conran has died at the age of 88.
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Sep 12, 2020
In the four years that have passed since Britain voted to leave the European Union, business executives have consistently delivered one message to the country's political leaders: Do not under any circumstances crash out of our largest export market without a deal to protect trade.
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Sep 11, 2020
President Donald Trump said Friday that Israel and Bahrain have agreed to the "establishment of full diplomatic relations," marking the second time in a month an Arab Gulf nation has announced new ties with the Jewish state and further reshaping alliances in the Middle East.
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Sep 11, 2020
A woman barred from entering one of France's most prestigious art galleries apparently because she was wearing a low-cut dress has received an apology after sharing details of the incident on social media.
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Sep 11, 2020
South Africa's biggest retailers say they have put a pause on selling TRESemmé products following widespread protests over a controversial ad featuring Black hair.
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Sep 11, 2020
Britain has reached a free trade agreement with Japan, its first with a major economy since leaving the European Union earlier this year.
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Sep 11, 2020
Rio Tinto CEO Jean-Sébastien Jacques has resigned as the mining giant continues to face pressure from investors for blowing up a 46,000-year-old sacred Indigenous site in Australia to expand an iron ore mine.
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Sep 11, 2020
For months, India has been struggling to control the coronavirus pandemic with limited success.
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Sep 11, 2020
After fires destroyed Europe's largest migrant camp Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos, an estimated 13,000 people have been left without shelter. Dozens of families who lived in the camp have found refuge a nearby cemetery. CNN's Melissa Bell reports.
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