Amazon is offering to cover four-year college tuition for most of its approximately 750,000 hourly workers in the United States, the latest major employer to offer the perk to attract and retain hourly employees in a tight job market.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison all but admitted Thursday that his country had asked UK negotiators to exclude particular climate commitments from a free trade deal agreed in principle in June.
For around three centuries, the girl reading a letter in the dimly-lit solitude of a Johannes Vermeer painting gave no indication of what the message contained.
More than two decades ago, India began its transformation into a global IT powerhouse, ushering in an era of wealth and job creation never before seen in the country.
South Korea has become the latest country in the Asia Pacific region to consider abandoning its coronavirus elimination strategy, announcing plans to lift Covid-19 restrictions despite rising case numbers.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday accepted his party's nomination to run for vice president in next year's election, forging ahead with a plan criticized by rivals as a cynical move to maintain his political power.
Elizabeth Holmes and the US government faced off in a San Jose federal courtroom in the long-awaited criminal trial of the founder and former CEO of Theranos.
At a Munich auto show Monday, Volkswagen unveiled the ID. Life, a tiny, boxy electric SUV, designed for driving on tight city streets. It's just an endearingly cute concept vehicle now, but VW plans to put something like it into production around 2025.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to hike payroll taxes to raise billions in funding for health and social care will raise Britain's tax burden to its highest ever level, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
CNN's David Culver delves into the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to intervene in the private lives of its citizens to carry out party ambitions in the next generation.
Security forces shattered the early morning calm of the lakeside Soviet-era resort outside the Belarusian capital of Minsk, bursting in to arrest 32 Russian mercenaries.
Four activists from the Hong Kong pro-democracy group that organizes the city's annual Tiananmen Square vigil were arrested early Wednesday morning, after the group refused to comply with a police order to submit information on national security grounds.
At least 41 prisoners have been killed and at least eight injured after a fire tore through an overcrowded prison block on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, police said.
Three-year-old AJ Elfalak was found three days after he went missing in the Australian wilderness, authorities confirmed. AJ is autistic and non-verbal, according to CNN affiliate Seven News.
CNN's Kristin Fisher spoke to Dmitry Rogozin in his first interview with western media since becoming the head of Roscomos, Russia's space agency. She joins New Day to share his thoughts on the billionaire space race, which company he thinks is best, and Roscosmos' relationship with NASA.
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