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A Christmas tree full of ornaments inside Lt. Brian Zach's office tells you Christmas is his favorite time of year.

Australia's Prime Minister has all but confirmed he won't join global leaders at crucial climate talks in Glasgow.

During a nationwide broadcast to mark 61 years of Nigeria's independence, President Muhammadu Buhari praised social media for being "a very useful platform."

Guinea junta leader Mamady Doumbouya was inaugurated as interim president on Friday to oversee what regional powers hope will be a short transition to constitutional rule after the September 5 overthrow of president Alpha Conde.

A former member of Malawi's parliament killed himself inside the parliament building in the capital Lilongwe on Thursday, a police spokesman has confirmed to CNN.

Millions of people across Europe may not be able to afford to heat their homes this winter as gas and electricity prices soar.

Worker shortages have left UK service stations empty, created gaps on supermarket shelves and are forcing farms to cull pigs. Even the finance industry is starting to suffer. The situation could get much worse this winter if the British government doesn't relax its Brexit immigration rules, business leaders say.

With nearly three quarters of all adults fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the European Union is a world leader in inoculations. But the impressive headline number is obscuring an uncomfortable reality: the rollout has been extremely unequal across the union.

Japan's Princess Mako and her commoner fiance Kei Komuro announced Friday they will be married on October 26, public broadcaster NHK reported -- a controversial union that requires her to give up her royal status.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday, October 1 announced plans to reopen the country's borders to fully vaccinated citizens and permanent residents, moving from a strict zero-Covid strategy to a model of living with the virus.

Large UK companies are required to reveal their gender pay gaps. But the rules are failing to address inequality, according to a new report.

Canada observed its first national holiday honoring victims and survivors of the country's residential school system.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has refused to apologize for the widespread human rights violations in the country since his disputed re-election last year in an exclusive interview with CNN.

Paris-based designer Rick Owens has been called many things in his long career. An antihero, a goth, fashion's "prince of darkness." He's been labeled as such because of his proclivity for a largely noir, gray and ice-hued oeuvre, his deployment of pentagram motifs on underwear or elk antlers on furniture, and an overall aesthetic that is -- and he'd agree with this -- rapturously anti-establishment.

The economic report card on President Joe Biden's first full quarter as president: Good, but not great.

Factories in China are struggling at a time when the world's second largest economy has to contend with yet another concern: a growing power supply crunch.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced on Thursday to one year in prison for illegal campaign financing in his failed 2012 re-election bid, making him the first French head of state in modern times to receive two jail terms.

Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has been promoted to the nation's top decision-making body, state media said on Thursday.

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will be open to spectators -- but only if they live in mainland China, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Wednesday, as organizers gave a first glimpse into the country's plans to hold the event while enforcing a strict zero-Covid strategy.

Every day for the past month, Emal Ahmadi's 7-year-old daughter Hada has asked him the same thing: "Where is my sister?"