The media spotlight in Afghanistan is about to dim as journalists evacuate
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Transatlantic teen romance leads to marriage, kids
It was August 2011 and Natasha Fisher was 17 and traveling from her home in England to the United States for the first time, desperate to spend a summer in New York living out a fantasy she'd only ever seen in TV and film.
The picture for Chinese tech stocks just keeps getting worse
China's escalating crackdown on the country's once-mighty technology sector shows no signs of abating, leaving investors to wonder: Where does the market rout end?
Watch chaos unfold at Kabul airport's north gate
With the Taliban in control of several access points to Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport, residents desperate to flee Afghanistan have overwhelmed the airport's north gate. Stun grenades light up the night and US troops have had to forcefully repel the gathering crowds. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.
Food fight: Kimchi's new Chinese name reignites cultural war
More than just a spicy staple served in Korean households and restaurants around the world, kimchi -- the iconic fermented vegetable dish -- has once again become the subject of a cultural feud between China and South Korea.
Grace weakens to a tropical storm but is expected to hit Mexico again as a hurricane
Grace plowed through the Yucatan Peninsula on Thursday and weakened to a tropical storm but is expected to regain hurricane strength as it approaches the Gulf coast of Mexico, said the National Hurricane Center.
England dropped most of its Covid restrictions. Here's how it's going
It's been a month since England dropped most of its coronavirus restrictions, a move that was welcomed by much of the country's hard-pressed business sector but criticized by thousands of scientists as a "dangerous and unethical experiment."
China wants to tell influencers how to speak and dress when live-streaming
China's crackdown on private business has taken a new, more intrusive turn with government plans to dictate how live-stream shopping influencers speak and dress.
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou's extradition hearings wrap up but the case isn't over yet
Extradition hearings for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou have concluded more than two years after she was arrested in Vancouver, Canada.
Singapore sentences Briton to 6 weeks in prison for not wearing face mask
A Singapore court sentenced a British man to six weeks in prison on Wednesday, local media reported, after he repeatedly breached coronavirus protocols by refusing to wear a face mask in public.