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I am a third-generation Angeleno. For most of my adult life living in Los Angeles, as a luxury lifestyle public relations executive and to satisfy my own wanderlust, I would travel as much as possible to tropical parts of the world, with any opportunity that arose. I lived on Maui for three years and truly embraced the Hawaiian culture and loved living by the beach in nature.

Mountaineer Doug Scott, who was part of the first UK team to summit Mount Everest via the south-west face, has passed away at the age of 79.

After more than a decade of dispute and controversy, China and Nepal have finally agreed on how tall Mount Everest is.

As Brexit talks enter the final stretch, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson must decide: does he cling to his definition of sovereignty, or does he set aside ideology — and perhaps his own pride — to safeguard jobs and the economy?

China's foreign minister says Beijing is open to restarting its relationship with the US, declaring the two countries are at a "critical historical juncture" after a year of escalating tensions.

The world has been inching toward fully autonomous cars for years. In China, one company just got even closer to making it a reality.

On October 6, news of a $50 million dollar investment to build a port in the Laotian town of Ban Mom led the business section of the Vientiane Times, a prominent state-run newspaper. In the second paragraph, readers were told that a man named Zhao Wei participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for the project.

On the surface, Venezuela seems spared from the ravaging impact of Covid-19, but doctors tell CNN the number of cases is much higher than the government wants to admit. With limited and slow testing, patients are kept in motels for weeks, under strict government control, waiting for a result. CNN's Isa Soares gets exclusive access to two of Venezuela's largest hospitals where power and water are intermittent and medical supplies are scarce.

For those keeping track of the mystery of the monoliths, get your scorecards ready -- another of the curious structures has been spotted, this time on the Isle of Wight, off England's south coast.

This week, Venezuelans are being asked to go to the polls not once but twice, in two bizarrely conflicting electoral events.

What better way to survive a pandemic than to do it on a beach in Hawaii?

Britain's healthcare providers are gearing up to start giving the first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, less than a week after the United Kingdom became the first Western nation to approve a Covid-19 vaccine.

Ah yes, "ze Autobahn". Few other landmarks represent Germany more than its freeway system. Cologne's cathedral is distinctively West German, and the TV Tower in Berlin is a GDR feat of engineering, but the Autobahn (literally "car runway") connects the whole country.

Actor and activist Ashton Kutcher speaks to CNN about granting tech giants like Facebook a reprieve from new EU privacy rules that would prohibit the use of automatic detection tools to combat child pornography.

After years of confusion and ambiguity, the tumultuous Brexit process could really be in its final week, as several loose threads are tied together in the coming days.

An unidentified illness has hospitalized more than 300 people in southeastern India, including one who has died, according to local officials investigating the cases.

Beijing has spent years turning islands and reefs in the South China Sea into military bases and airstrips -- but such territory could be vulnerable to attack and nigh indefensible in the event of war, a new report has warned.

Blessing and Sheryl Jossy wanted to hold a wedding extravaganza across three cities.