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Chris Gursky nearly died hang gliding. No, that's not an exaggeration. There's a viral video to prove it.

Big government announcements in Russia are typically accompanied by simultaneous coverage on the nation's state-run TV channels.

It's been nearly nine years since a 9.1 magnitude earthquake and an ensuing tsunami with 30-foot-plus waves hit Japan's east coast, causing a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. The plant was flooded with seawater and left without emergency power, leading to multiple explosions and the release of radioactive contaminants.

A week after his father was killed in a plane crash over Iran, Ryan Pourjam, 13, gave a moving speech about who his father was and the life lessons he left behind for him.

Christopher Tolkien, the son of "The Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien, has died, the Tolkien Society announced Thursday. He was 95 years old.

Libya's renegade General Khalifa Haftar has "agreed to comply" with the terms of an existing ceasefire agreement in Libya, according to German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.

The Ponciana Condominium building here is one of the most distinctive in the island's second-largest city. It's a 12-story structure, just south of downtown, with medical and commercial units on its first three floors and residential units on the remaining nine.

The exclusive $1 trillion club on Wall Street just got a new member. Shares of Google parent company Alphabet hit a new all-time high Thursday, pushing the company's market value to $1 trillion in the process.

At 11 p.m. local time on the 31st of January, Britain is finally going to leave the European Union. But the British people can't even agree on how their first few seconds of independence will play out, and their Prime Minister, who famously called for "healing" upon his general election win in December, is only making matters worse.

Food companies trying to reduce their consumption of plastic have a big problem — it's hard to find suitable recycled material. Nestlé says it's willing to spend more than $2 billion to try and fix that.

Pope Francis has appointed a female Italian lawyer to a high-ranking role in the Vatican's diplomatic division, further cementing his credentials as one of the most progressive Holy Fathers in history.

For as long as I can remember, I have struggled to explain to people where I'm from.

Net zero by 2050. It sounds like a code name for an intelligence agency or a defense program, but it was a declaration by Britain in June 2019 to go carbon neutral in 30 years, the first G7 country to do so.

It's Saturday morning in Civita di Bagnoregio, and the locals are patrolling the medieval walls, eyeing the visitors as they make their way toward the village.

Japan's Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has announced that he will take paternity leave when his first child is born this month, an unusual step in a country where new fathers rarely take time off from work.

Severe thunderstorms are bringing temporary relief, along with new risks, to Australia that has been ravaged by historic bushfires. CNN's Will Ripley reports.