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Pterosaurs, the world’s oldest flying reptiles, once flew in Australia’s skies as far back as 107 million years ago, according to a study…

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Australia’s most decorated soldier lost a multi-million dollar defamation case against…

By Eric Cheung, Will Ripley and John Mees, CNN Kinmen, Taiwan (CNN) — As the sun sets over Taiwan’s Kinmen islands, the neon lights of…

By Rosa Flores, CNN (CNN) — Mexico is launching a new app to speed up its asylum process amid record levels of asylum seekers, even after a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A team of 16 experts and scientists assembled by NASA aims to publish its first report on unidentified…

By Yoonjung Seo, CNN (CNN) — Kim Yo Jong, senior North Korean official and sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said a North Korean…

By Eve Brennan, Jessie Gretener and Chris Stern, CNN (CNN) — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) said European Union states have…

By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — Qatar’s prime minister met secretly with the Taliban’s top leader earlier this month in Afghanistan, two…

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Boris Johnson, former prime minister of the United Kingdom. Personal Birth date:…

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Radovan Karadzic, who was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity…

By Melissa Mahtani, CNN (CNN) — It’s been just over 100 days since Nicaraguan opposition leader Felix Maradiaga was released from prison,…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — All 21 passengers on a charter boat that sank in Italy’s Lake Maggiore on Sunday, killing four people,…

By Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — A former staffer who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault has defected to Moscow, telling state media that she…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called on his top national security officials to think about “worst…

By Paula Newton and Caitlin Hu, CNN (CNN) — Canada’s former Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole has accused China of targeting him with…

By Tatiana Arias, Duarte Mendonca, Julia Vargas Jones and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Brazil’s lower house of Congress on Tuesday night approved a…

By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva proposed creating a common currency in the region during a…

By Nathan Hodge, CNN (CNN) — It’s a familiar routine for Ukrainians: Explosions ring out in the city, then videos emerge of drones overhead.…

By James Frater, Catherine Nicholls and Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A beluga whale widely speculated to be an alleged Russian “spy” has entered…

By Tara Subramaniam and Manveena Suri, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — A 16 year-old girl was brutally stabbed and bludgeoned to death in a busy public…

By Nectar Gan and Wayne Chang, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of ethnic minority Muslims surrounded a mosque in southwestern China over the weekend in a…

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Malaysian authorities have detained a Chinese-flagged cargo ship amid reports of the salvaging of World War II…

By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Bogota, Colombia (CNN) — “We had not been in air for more than 30 seconds… suddenly, the engine started coughing.…

By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen and William Bonnett, CNN Chernihiv, Ukraine (CNN) — The loud engine announces the approach of the…

By Natasha Bertrand and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — China has rejected a United States proposal for Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to meet…

By Simone McCarthy (CNN) — China sent its first civilian astronaut into orbit on Tuesday, as it launched the Shenzhou-16 mission to its space…

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Staff Sgt. Ken Wallingford had only days left to serve in the US Army when he found himself trapped – and seconds…

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, current president and former prime minister of Turkey.…

By Mengchen Zhang and Caolán Magee, CNN (CNN) — The Chinese city of Shanghai recorded its highest May temperature in more than 100 years on…

By Stephanie Busari, CNN (CNN) — Nigeria’s President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu was sworn into office Monday, against the backdrop of a…

By Niamh Kennedy and Caolán Magee, CNN (CNN) — The bodies of four people have been recovered from Lake Maggiore in northern Italy after a…

By Al Goodman, CNN Madrid (CNN) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has announced snap parliamentary elections in July, hours after his…

By David McKenzie and Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has signed some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ laws in the…

By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Some of India’s top female wrestlers were detained by police Sunday, in a chaotic escalation of a weeks-long…

By Emiko Jozuka Tokyo (CNN) — Japan’s Defense Ministry warned on Monday it would destroy any North Korean missile that enters its territory…

By Tara Subramaniam, CNN (CNN) — Melbourne was shaken Sunday by a rare and shallow earthquake – the largest earthquake to hit the Australian…

By Kathleen Magramo and CNN’s Beijing Bureau (CNN) — Giant panda Ya Ya has become an internet sensation again after Chinese state media…

By Mariya Knight, Uliana Pavlova and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has claimed that nations who are willing…

By Sahar Akbarzai, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 1.4 million people have now been displaced in Sudan since conflict between two rival generals erupted in…

By Mick Krever, Niamh Kennedy and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Dutch police arrested over 1,500 people after Extinction Rebellion protesters…

By Kunal Sehgal, CNN (CNN) — A government official in India who drained a reservoir to retrieve a phone he dropped while taking a selfie has…

By Gul Tuysuz, Yusuf Gezer and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN (CNN) — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won Turkey’s presidential election, defeating…

By Josh Pennington and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — Russia launched its largest drone attack of the conflict yet on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv,…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Wind turbines are built to last. Their tall bodies are topped with long fiberglass blades, some more than half a…

By Olga Voitovych, Andrew Carey and Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — With just a few words and a slickly produced piece of military…

By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, William Bonnett and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — The drive takes us through unmarked roads and fresh…

By Abeer Salman and Hadas Gold, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank Friday left a man in critical…

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Turkey’s long-term leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan is going up against opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu in…

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A social media influencer died soon after live-streaming himself drinking several bottles of strong alcohol…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — “Murderers.” “Criminals.” “We are watching you.” These are just a handful of the threats and abuse…

By Jonny Hallam and Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Al-Shabaab fighters launched a deadly attack on an African Union military base in Somalia on…

By CNN’s Rafael Romo (CNN) — Scott Lieberman, an American who lives in San Francisco, always knew that he was adopted from Chile. What he…

By Angus Watson and Chris Lau, CNN Sydney/Hong Kong (CNN) — A hostage video released by West Papuan independence fighters Friday includes a…

By Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — Firearms manufacturer Kalashnikov has unveiled an upgraded AK-12 assault rifle, with modifications based on the…

By Richard Roth and Heather Law, CNN (CNN) — United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres was “shocked,” according to his spokesman,…

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — It’s a day seared into America’s collective memory: December 7, 1941. The day Imperial Japanese warplanes…

By Mia Alberti, CNN (CNN) — The United Nations has chosen Brazil to host the international climate meeting, COP30, in the Amazonian city of…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A lunar lander likely plummeted 3 miles before smashing into the lunar surface after a historic attempt to make…

By Delia Gallagher, Xiaofei Xu, Rob Picheta and Sophie Tanno, CNN Rome (CNN) — Pope Francis Saturday addressed a conference attended by…

By Mostafa Salem, Catherine Nicholls and James Frater, CNN (CNN) — A Belgian aid worker who was imprisoned in Iran for more than a year has…

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — A recently as March, Iran’s national security chief found himself on the front pages of the world’s top news…