This river is legally a person. Here's how it happened
As a child in the 1970s, Gerrard Albert played on the mud flats at the mouth of New Zealand's Whanganui River where raw sewage from the nearby town spilled into the estuary and out to the ocean.
Thousands of people are protesting with farmers in India. This is why you should care
Farmers in India have reached a stalemate with the government over its proposed amendments to laws the farmers feel will ravage their livelihoods and create an opportunity for large, private companies to enter and exploit the entire agriculture sector.
One of the largest icebergs could endanger an island's wildlife
The iceberg A68a is currently travelling towards the South Georgia island. Experts fear it could devastate the island's wildlife population if the iceberg reaches its shore.
Argentina's abortion bill is backed by lower house of Congress
Argentina's lower house of Congress has approved a landmark government-backed bill to legalize abortion Friday morning, a big step forward for the legislation that could set the tone for a wider shift in conservative Latin America.
Australian Covid-19 vaccine trials ended after test subjects return 'false positive' HIV results
An Australian produced coronavirus vaccine candidate has been scrapped after trial participants returned false positive test results for HIV, developers announced Friday.
The accused drug lords and gun runners tied to a Hong Kong district
The Hong Kong neighborhood of Wan Chai may be home to the most eclectic and densest concentration of US-sanctioned enterprises anywhere on the planet.
Bhutan parliament decriminalizes homosexuality, to delight of activists
A joint sitting of both houses of Bhutan's parliament approved a bill on Thursday to legalize gay sex, making the tiny Himalayan kingdom the latest Asian nation to take steps towards easing restrictions on same-sex relationships.
European Union agrees on $2 trillion package -- but fudges deal on rule of law
The leaders of the European Union's 27 member states have reached a final agreement on the $2 trillion package designed to rebuild the bloc's faltering economies in the wake of the coronavirus recession.
Lebanon's prime minister charged over deadly Beirut blast
A Lebanese judge has charged caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three ex-ministers with criminal neglect over the huge explosion at Beirut's port that killed more than 200 people this summer.
Inside a Tehran hospital facing Iran's biggest Covid-19 surge
Fighting Covid-19 in Iran has been hard for doctors. The country has recorded more than 50,000 deaths and over a million cases from the virus, as doctors have had to make do with limited resources and equipment available under the renewed US sanctions and President Donald Trump's maximum pressure campaign. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports from a hospital in Iran's capital, Tehran.