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Friday, September 4 was one of the happiest days in recent memory for Mayila Yakufu and her family.

A small, unassuming boat washed up on a remote island in the Pacific last week carrying no passengers -- but loaded with around 1,430 pounds (649 kg) of cocaine.

China's extensive surveillance of the Uyghur population does not stop at the Chinese border. In Sweden, Uyghur Nyrola Elima says her Twitter account is being tracked by the Chinese authorities back home as she campaigns for her cousin Mayila Yakufu to be released from the Xinjiang detention center. CNN's Ivan Watson reports.

Brazil's Ministry of Health on Wednesday announced its national vaccination rollout plan to counter Covid-19, set to start early next year.

An overweight dog naps by an open-air som tam (papaya salad) shop. The scent of chicken grilling over charcoal fills the lane. A chorus of children's voices rings out from a schoolhouse. No one is wearing a mask, though an old man dons a straw hat on his bicycle.

A California-based startup that promises to make zero-carbon flight a reality has just received a major vote of confidence.

A French court found guilty on Wednesday 14 accomplices of the French Islamist militants behind the January 2015 attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket in Paris.

Families everywhere are set for the most wonderful time of the year. But in some households, Mom or Dad can't be around for Christmas Eve. Maybe they work in health care, or perhaps they're deployed in the military.

At the age of 10, David Macaulay immigrated to America from England in 1957 with his mother, brother, and sister aboard the SS United States -- a massive, gleaming ocean liner that had been in operation for just five years, and would remain in service only another 12.

The United Nations has warned that millions of children are still cut off from aid in Ethiopia's conflict-riven Tigray region, despite promises made by the federal government earlier this month to allow humanitarian agencies access.

In one photo, a woman wearing a patterned dress walks down a deserted street in Bellagio, northern Italy, a small dachshund lapping at her heels. To her left there's a gelateria, and at the end of the passageway, a stone church looms ahead.

The C-suite of one of China's most important tech companies has just been thrown into confusion.

CNN's Paula Hancocks follows the contact tracers in Seoul, South Korea, as the city faces a third wave of coronavirus infections.

China's luxury market has proved "unstoppable" this year even as the coronavirus pandemic hammered global demand for expensive goods.

Summer flings have long been a happy, occasional perk of travel.

Up to a quarter of a million children, young people and vulnerable adults were abused in New Zealand's faith-based and state care institutions in the past several decades, a public inquiry revealed on Wednesday.

Pakistan introduced a rape law on Tuesday that will create special courts to try cases within four months, after protests over the gang rape of a woman whose car ran out of fuel.

The phone buzzed as the tracker came online, and a little circular blip appeared on the map. Helen Pheasey watched the dot intently as it moved inland from a beach on Costa Rica's Pacific coast.

An asylum agreement between the United States and El Salvador is ready to go into effect, according to a memo obtained by CNN.

MacKenzie Scott announced on Tuesday her second major charitable contribution of the year, giving away nearly $4.2 billion to 384 organizations as part of a plan to donate a majority of her fortune.