Web-based kissing device horrifies Chinese social media users

Want to send your faraway lover a kiss? A Chinese contraption with warm, moving silicon "lips" appears to have just the answer.

'South Park' lawsuit: Warner Bros. Discovery sues Paramount for $500 million

Warner Bros. Discovery filed a lawsuit against Paramount Friday, claiming the rival media company breached its half-billion-dollar exclusivity contract with HBO Max by airing "South Park" on its own streaming platform, Paramount+.

Larry Summers: Why sanctions on Russia aren't effective

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said price caps on Russian energy should be stiffened up to maximize the impact of sanctions on the country as the war in Ukraine hits a year.

Polls closed but a day later Nigerians were still voting in the presidential election

How do you stage elections for more than 93 million voters? With great difficulty, headaches, delays and technical issues, it turns out.

Turkey arrests nearly 200 people over alleged poor building construction following quake tragedy

Nearly 200 people have been arrested for alleged poor building construction following the catastrophic earthquake that struck Turkey earlier this month, Turkey's Justice Ministry said.

Two Israelis shot and killed in the West Bank, settler leader says

Two Israelis were shot and killed in the West Bank Sunday, local settler leader Yossi Dagan said, calling it "an extremely serious terrorist attack."

About 160,000 people protest against Netanyahu's judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv

About 160,000 people demonstrated in Tel Aviv Saturday night against the Israeli government's plans to weaken the country's judicial system, crowd expert Ofer Grinboim Liron told CNN. That would make it one of the biggest single demonstrations yet against the legislation.

El Salvador begins transferring thousands to 'mega prison' amid gang crackdown

El Salvador's government moved thousands of suspected gang members to a newly opened "mega prison" on Friday, the latest step in a controversial crackdown on crime that has caused the Central American nation's prison population to soar.

China is helping to prop up the Russian economy. Here's how

In the year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has been hit by unprecedented Western sanctions and shut out of much of the global economy.

Armed group has released its last three hostages in Papua New Guinea, says prime minister

A group of hostages being held for ransom by armed criminals in a remote region of Papua New Guinea have all now been freed, the country's Prime Minister James Marape said Sunday.