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A pair of 1,000-year-old religious relics, which US investigators say were illegally taken from Thailand, have been returned after more than five decades.

Scores of people are missing and feared dead after an overloaded boat capsized in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kebbi on Wednesday with around 180 passengers on board, government authorities said.

In 2020, Taiwan had one of the most successful Covid-19 responses in the world, and it went more than 250 days without reporting any local infections. As the island now battles its worst Covid-19 outbreak, CNN's Will Ripley speaks with Dr. Chen Chien-jen, an epidemiologist who served as vice president on on what went wrong with the island's Covid response.

Australia's ambassador to China was denied entry to a heavily guarded Beijing court on Thursday where the espionage case against Australian blogger Yang Hengjun will be heard at a time of worsening ties between the two nations.

With less than two months until the Tokyo Olympics begin, a group of US public health experts are among the latest to warn that pushing forward with the rescheduled 2020 Games puts athletes -- and the public -- at risk amid the pandemic.

CNN's Jake Tapper looks into a Congressional report that shows how US companies may have benefited from forced labor of Uyghur Muslims.

For the first time since its creation in the wake of the French Revolution, the Musée du Louvre in Paris will be headed by a woman. Laurence des Cars, 54, the current president of the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée de l'Orangerie, was appointed on Wednesday as the new president-director of the Louvre by French President Emmanuel Macron.

Russia and Iran are the top two sources of coordinated fake activity on Facebook, according to a new report released by the company.

Sofia Sapega, the Russian student arrested alongside Belarusian dissident journalist Roman Protasevich, appeared in a video overnight while in detention, allegedly "confessing" to working for a social media channel that publishes personal data of government employees.

At the beginning of the 21st century China had no high-speed railways.

Dozens of campaign groups are urging Google to abandon a cloud computing project in Saudi Arabia, saying the company is at risk of being "complicit in future human rights violations."

WhatsApp has sued the Indian government in a bid to block new rules it says would lead to "mass surveillance" by forcing social media platforms to hand over private information about their users.

As European airlines suspend the flights to Belarus that once offered one of the few exit routes out of an oppressive state already in the grip of closed land borders, many Belarusians fear the return of a Soviet-style Iron Curtain around their country.

Syrians were voting Wednesday in presidential elections widely dismissed by experts and activists as a sham poll, rigged in favor of President Bashar al-Assad.

CNN's Bianca Nobilo looks at how Dominic Cummings went from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's right-hand man to biggest enemy.

ExxonMobil's response to the climate crisis could very well be decided on Wednesday.

Intense heat and high humidity could pose a serious risk to athletes at this year's Tokyo Olympics, according to a new report.

Mali's transitional vice president Assimi Goita said Tuesday that he removed the transitional president and prime minister from office, confirming reports from several international groups that the leaders had been ousted on Monday.

Walmart has apologized to people who received emails containing the n-word in an earlier message from the retailer.

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said travel demand is rebounding, but he doesn't expect business travel to ever return to the way it was before the pandemic.