Bitterly cold, frozen and inhospitable to nearly all wildlife apart from polar bears.

After more than a decade of dispute and controversy, China and Nepal have finally agreed on how tall Mount Everest is.

As Brexit talks enter the final stretch, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson must decide: does he cling to his definition of sovereignty, or does he set aside ideology — and perhaps his own pride — to safeguard jobs and the economy?

China's foreign minister says Beijing is open to restarting its relationship with the US, declaring the two countries are at a "critical historical juncture" after a year of escalating tensions.

On October 6, news of a $50 million dollar investment to build a port in the Laotian town of Ban Mom led the business section of the Vientiane Times, a prominent state-run newspaper. In the second paragraph, readers were told that a man named Zhao Wei participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for the project.

For those keeping track of the mystery of the monoliths, get your scorecards ready -- another of the curious structures has been spotted, this time on the Isle of Wight, off England's south coast.

This week, Venezuelans are being asked to go to the polls not once but twice, in two bizarrely conflicting electoral events.

What better way to survive a pandemic than to do it on a beach in Hawaii?

Britain's healthcare providers are gearing up to start giving the first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, less than a week after the United Kingdom became the first Western nation to approve a Covid-19 vaccine.

Actor and activist Ashton Kutcher speaks to CNN about granting tech giants like Facebook a reprieve from new EU privacy rules that would prohibit the use of automatic detection tools to combat child pornography.