The coronavirus pandemic has left governments in disarray and made planning even weeks ahead difficult. In Beijing this week, however, China's leaders met to set specific policy for much of the coming decade.

Vietnam deployed hundreds of soldiers and heavy machinery on Thursday to search for survivors after landslides triggered by torrential rains from Typhoon Molave, one of the strongest typhoons in the region in decades.

CNN's Matt Rivers visits Neolpharma, a Mexican pharmaceutical company that says it plans to eventually produce millions of coronavirus vaccine doses.

The Unites States has charged eight people, including six Chinese citizens, over a three-year plot to intimidate a US resident into returning to China to face criminal charges.

After its hugely successful "flight to nowhere" campaign, Australian national airline Qantas has rolled out an even bigger treat -- flights to, well, somewhere.

In a fiery exchange during a senate hearing on Big Tech, Senator Ted Cruz sparred with Twitter's CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey about the platform's role in elections.

US President Donald Trump started a trade war with China to fix what he's repeatedly blasted as an unfair relationship between the world's two largest economies.

McDonald's finds itself struggling at breakfast, a part of the day it once dominated. So the chain is rolling out new bakery items Wednesday for the first time in nearly a decade.

This was going to be a big year for Japan. With the Summer Olympics due to be hosted in Tokyo, the island nation expected 40 million tourists to grace its shores.

Apple has a solution for home screen clutter: Mini apps.

If you're looking for a reason to care about tree loss, the nation's latest heat wave might be it. Trees can lower summer daytime temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a recent study.

Rich people don't just have bigger bank balances and more lavish lifestyles than the rest of us -- they also have bigger carbon footprints.

A black-and-white photo from the early 1900s shows a woman in rural America, her face covered with a sinister white mask. In another, from 1930, a tall figure stands in a field tightly wrapped in what looks like a white sheet and black tape, while a…

Lily Allen has teamed up with a German sex toy brand to launch her own sex toy -- and start a discussion about female sexuality.

The role of first lady of the United States is one of the most visible public positions in the world. From the moment votes are counted, and often during campaigning in the preceding months, the spouse of a newly elected president is thrust into the…

Between 2017 and 2019, I traveled to Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo and Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to meet whole families of sapeurs, including female "sapeuses" and mini "sapes" in training.

Scrolling through images of outfits worn over the years by Kim Kardashian West, who turns 40 today, one thing remains consistent throughout: how confident she looks in even the most questionable of them.

Beached on the western shores of the Caspian Sea, it looks like a colossal aquatic beast -- a bizarre creation more at home in the deep than above the waves. It certainly doesn't look like something that could ever fly.

French authorities have revealed that the Nice attacker who killed three people is Tunisian and was unknown to security services.

The largest takeover deal in the luxury sector is back on track after US jeweller Tiffany agreed to accept a reduced price from LVMH.

At least 140 migrants have drowned off the coast of Senegal in the deadliest shipwreck recorded by the United Nations this year.

A clash of cultures is gripping France and impacting French interests in the Muslim world.

The US economy grew at an annual rate of 33.1% in the third quarter, by far the largest quarterly gain since records began in 1947.

Twitter, Facebook and Google have been warned their platforms face new restrictions after they were criticised by Republican senators for alleged anti-conservative bias.

At least one person has died after Hurricane Zeta crashed on to the US Gulf Coast shore.

India has become the second country to record more than eight million coronavirus cases amid fears of a further spike due to a series of upcoming Hindu festivals - including Diwali.

Soldiers and heavy machinery are being used to search for survivors in Vietnam after landslides triggered by Typhoon Molave killed at least 15 people.

Watching Dr Silvana Di Florio ready herself to enter an intensive care ward where every bed currently set aside for COVID-19 patients is already full reminds you of the seriousness of the virus.

At least 140 people drowned after a vessel carrying migrants to Europe capsized off the coast of Senegal, the United Nations' International Organization for Migration said Thursday.

The European Central Bank prepared Thursday to release new measures to stimulate the economy amid COVID-19 lockdowns to control a second wave.

Rising Chinese nationalist sentiment following the 70th anniversary of China's entry into the Korean War is angering South Koreans.

Chinese industry and tourism officials are touting a recently opened "intelligent ecological marine ranch" as a potential game-changer for the country's depleted fishing waters.

International experts in a new scientific study warned on Thursday that pandemics like COVID-19 will emerge more often in the future unless more targeted efforts are made to control them.

A Japanese politician is requesting the removal of a new comfort woman statue in a borough in Berlin, Germany, on the grounds the memorial could incite anti-Japanese racism.

Former Labor leader and British lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn was suspended from his party Thursday after a human rights report outlined deficiencies in how the party handled anti-Semitism during his leadership.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping expressed his will to support North Korea's economic development in response to a letter from Kim Jong Un.

Former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak condemned a court ruling that requires him to serve the remainder of his 17-year prison sentence in jail, saying rule of law has "collapsed" in Asia's fourth-largest economy.

At least three people were killed in the southern French city of Nice Thursday in what police and local officials describe as a terrorist attack by an assailant with a knife at a Catholic basilica.

Germany and France announced new lockdown measures Wednesday as new COVID-19 cases in Europe spiked to record levels.

North Korea state media delivered a veiled criticism of the United States in an article on the "situation in Venezuela," days after the United States threatened to destroy any Iranian missiles shipped there.

Beijing denounced the "politicization" of the coronavirus pandemic during a virtual BRICS parliamentary forum, while calling for greater coordination among Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Tanzania opened polls on Wednesday in a presidential election that's viewed by many as a referendum on the leadership of President John Magufuli.

Past customs and practices should be set aside, North Korean state media said, a week after South Korean news services reported a North Korean mass gymnastics performance scheduled this month may have been canceled.

The Trump administration and the Israeli government agreed Wednesday to expand research agreements into West Bank settlements and remove territorial limitations.

International sanctions on North Korea are taking a toll on ordinary North Koreans who earn no income even when they show up for work at factories, according to a new South Korean study.

A farm closure in South Korea is the latest indication that the market for dog meat, a traditional delicacy in South Korea, is rapidly declining.

China is one step closer to issuing the world's first digital currency following trials in several cities and the passage of a draft law on Friday.

A bomb attack at a mosque and religious school in Pakistan Tuesday killed several people and injured more than 100, authorities said.