The US unilaterally imposed sweeping sanctions on Iran's financial sector in a move that critics say could have unintended consequences, including a detrimental impact on the ability of the Iranian people to access humanitarian resources.
Britain's Prince William is dedicating $65 million to create a new environmental award, in an effort to inspire solutions to some of the Earth's most pressing challenges.
More than 2,300 people were evacuated from villages in the Russian region of Ryazan after a wildfire set off explosions at an ammunition depot, Russian state media reported Wednesday, citing the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
British Airway retired the last of its huge Boeing 747 airplanes on Thursday when the final two planes still in service departed from London Heathrow -- a poignant event brought upon by the coronavirus pandemic.
A top North Korean diplomat who went missing in Italy two years ago is now living in South Korea, making him one of the regime's most high profile officials to defect in decades.
In the latest issue of Architectural Digest (AD) Danish architect Bjarke Ingels recalled that while on a video conference in his his family home -- which just happens to be a 450-ton ferry docked in Copenhagen -- the caller asked if he was on a spaceship.
CNN senior Washington correspondent Joe Johns was interrupted by a raccoon during an early morning live shot. Jeanne Moos reports on the raccoon invasion of the White House lawn.
The UK, France and Germany are planning to impose targeted sanctions on Russia, after an international chemical weapons watchdog confirmed that Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.
A suspected toxic spill along a beach on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula has killed 95% of marine life on the surrounding seabed, local scientists have said, following a weeks-long campaign to investigate the mysterious incident.
