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To understand the rising popularity of Holland's populist, Geert Wilders, CNN's Nic Robertson meets Wilders' supporters.

An Afghan boy who gained online fame after a picture of him wearing a makeshift Lionel Messi jersey went viral has finally met his football hero in Doha, Qatar.

Scientists in India have taken inspiration from J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series of books and movies in naming a distinctive new species of spider.

The Syrian government has established control over eastern Aleppo, Vitaly Churkin, Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations, told the UN Security Council on Tuesday.

Earlier this month, the Libyan city of Sirte was liberated from ISIS. Manu Brabo photographed the bloody battle and the devastation it left behind.

Think of Beertopia as Asia's younger, smaller-scale answer to the Great American Beer Festival.

Venezuelan officials have confiscated nearly 5 million toys from a toy distributor, accusing the company of planning to sell them at inflated prices during the Christmas season.

People in eastern Aleppo are posting desperate "goodbye" messages as government forces close in on the ever-shrinking rebel-held enclave.

The last 48 hours have been the most savage yet for the people of Aleppo, where unarmed civilians have reportedly been shot on the spot, poison gas has been used indiscriminately and activists have posted tragic goodbyes on social media as they await capture or worse.

An Italian court has jailed the captain of a migrant boat that sank in 2015, killing some 900 people in the Mediterranean's worst disaster since World War II.

Wonder Woman has been stripped of her role as a United Nations honorary ambassador for the empowerment of women and girls, less than two months after the controversial appointment was made.

The 2016 election was not rigged by Moscow. Rex Tillerson, tipped to be the next secretary of state, is not a KGB agent.

The final days of the years-long battle for Aleppo are here. One by one, neighborhoods are falling to the Syrian regime, and those left behind face a variety of gruesome fates: Will they be trapped? Bombed? Or executed by government forces, as reports are suggesting?

He was an old man who spent his days alone in the mountains of southern Oregon looking for a bee. He hadn't seen the bee -- no one had seen this particular bee species -- in 10 years when he asked me to join him.

This is not your typical 9-to-5 job. A global translation firm based in London is hiring what it says will be the world's first official "emoji translator."

The hilltop offers fresh air, fertile soil, and a commanding view of the surrounding landscape. That's what attracted Israeli settlers to Amona.

Satellite images could prove that villages in Myanmar's restive Rakhine State were deliberately burned to the ground, according to Human Rights Watch.

Scientists in South Africa have found a link between a particular type of malaria resistance and the likelihood of cancer spread in some patients of African descent.

The Syrian regime's capture of eastern Aleppo changes the face of the country's horrendous civil war; the fortunes of the many rebel groups arrayed against it have rarely seemed so bleak. But few observers expect them to sue for peace or lay down their arms.