US & World

By Nick Paton Walsh and Katharina Krebs, CNN Prague (CNN) — The head of Britain’s foreign intelligence service used a rare speech Wednesday…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is playing out like an apocalypse movie: a tale of heat, floods and fire. But…

By Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — The woolly mammoth has not walked the Earth for 4,000 years. Killed off at the end of the last ice age, it’s part of…

By Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — China will follow its own path to cut carbon emissions, leader Xi Jinping vowed Tuesday, as US climate envoy John…

By Kocha Olarn and Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — Thailand’s parliament blocked the prime ministerial nomination of the winner of May’s…

By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — For the first time in decades a US soldier is believed to be in North Korean custody. That is a…

By Heather Chen and Sugam Pokharel, CNN (CNN) — Devastating floods causing havoc across northern India have reached the iconic Taj Mahal in a…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Threadlike worms living in the guts of certain insects make their hosts jump into water and drown. What…

By Karol Suarez, CNN Lima, Peru (CNN) — There is a tense calm in Lima ahead of a new round of anti-government protests this week, which will…

By Marc Stewart, Yoonjung Seo and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — North Korea has launched two short-range ballistic missiles, which landed…

By Eve Brennan, Sana Noor Haq and Niamh Kennedy, CNN London (CNN) — A British woman jailed under Victorian-era legislation for terminating her…

By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A 9-year-old boy died last week in British Columbia after having an asthma attack during the ongoing wildfires in…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Sometime during the Cretaceous Period, 125 million years ago, a feisty mammal the size of a domestic cat encountered…

By Brad Lendon, Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — For the first time in decades, a nuclear capable US Navy ballistic…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday rejected an appeal by the Philippine government to block an…

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A mystery object that washed ashore on Australia’s western coast sparking a flurry of local excitement…

By Rob Picheta, CNN Uxbridge, United Kingdom (CNN) — “Everything now is a struggle,” Mike Okoli says, in the world-weary tone he slumps…

By Heather Chen, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The world’s largest and most populous continent is reckoning with the deadly effects of extreme summer…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The first Olympian and the first mother-daughter duo to venture to space will be aboard Virgin Galactic’s…