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Volkswagen is picking up the pace in its bid to dominate the auto industry's electric future.

Any major city will have bars, clubs and live music venues, but not all of them can claim to be a true party capital.

Helen Fanthorpe has traveled plenty -- attempting to salsa in Cuba and visibly awestruck by the Taj Majal in India -- so her bucket list is especially well-thought out.

Pro-democracy protesters are preparing to take to the streets of Hong Kong this weekend, and they're calling on supporters to withdraw their salaries from bank machines and convert their cash to US dollars.

India hopes to become only the fourth country -- behind the US, the former Soviet Union and China -- to make a soft landing on the surface of the moon when its Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft attempts the feat early Saturday local time (Friday eastern time).

Angela Merkel was welcomed by Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing on Friday amid calls for the German Chancellor to take a stronger line on China's human rights record.

Asian markets kept climbing Friday on optimism about the future of the US-China trade relationship.

President Donald Trump met with with General Motors CEO Mary Barra at the White House Thursday. Her decision to shut four US plants has clearly made him unhappy.

A rooster called Maurice was put on trial in western France, in an unusual case that has come to symbolize the divide between urban and rural communities.

WeWork, one of the most high-profile tech companies that has filed to go public this year, is now weighing whether to cut its targeted IPO valuation drastically, according to multiple news outlets

The son of the former Brazil captain and two-time World Cup winner Cafu has died of a suspected heart attack at the age of 30 while playing football near his family home win Sao Paolo.

When the news of Karl Lagerfeld's death broke earlier this year, powerful reverberations were felt far beyond the fashion industry's inner circle.

Princess Charlotte has already been on several royal trips and met ambassadors. Her latest adventure is her first day at school.

It's known as the "mother of parliaments" -- one of the oldest legislatures in the world. But in the last two days, the British Parliament has been the center of the mother of all battles.

Facebook is moving from Likes to love.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced Wednesday that she will finally withdraw the loathed extradition bill that kick-started three months of violent protests. The move was greeted not with the relief or happiness she might have hoped for, but with frustration and anger that the compromise had taken so long.

The MAKS air show in Zhukovksy takes place every other year and showcases the best of Russian aviation, from new planes hoping to break into an international market to old military jets

Say you're asked to name a supermodel. You probably wouldn't struggle to list Naomi Campbell or Linda Evangelista, or more recent inheritors of the title like Kendall Jenner, Adut Akech or Gigi and Bella Hadid. But now, imagine you're asked to define what makes Campbell and the Hadids "super," and others who walk the exact same runways just "models." Is it fame, or the fees they might command, or something more intangible?

You could easily go broke trying to visit every restaurant in New York City's five boroughs. But while there will always be plenty of people chasing the next hot thing -- rainbow unicorn ramen -- there are certain restaurants that have outlasted the rest.