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Today, Aleppo is at the heart of Syria's civil war, but before the war, many would travel to the city for its amazing history and architecture.

Day five at sea in the High Arctic, and the news breaks early in the day. At 6 a.m, we're officially the most northerly vessel on the planet, reaching 81 degrees 16 minutes latitude. Not bad in a world of 7.3 billion people.

A relative calm prevailed over the Greek island of Kos by the time photographer Jörg Brüggemann landed there in August.

CNN's Sumnima Udas joins a patrol with New Delhi's highest ranking female police officers to see what has changed on the city's streets since a 2012 gang rape.

There's crime and then there's evil, pure and simple.

From Alaska to Uganda, people share how climate change is affecting their everyday lives.

It's notoriously difficult to get information out of Raqqa. ISIS monitors everything inside the city and CNN has a policy of not contacting anyone in the city directly as it would put their lives in danger. Much of the information in this gallery has been provided by activist group Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered and many of the sources are unnamed for their own protection. CNN cannot independently verify their information.

Antarctica covers an area of almost 14 million square kilometers -- about the same size of Europe.

Chad Myers explains how earthquake warning systems work, and why we can't predict seismic events earlier.

There is something unmistakably common in Africa: the continent's aging and long-serving presidents.

When little Elian Gonzalez returned to Cuba in 2000 following a poisonous custody battle and a federal raid on his Miami relatives' home, it was to resume a life far from the glare of the media spotlight. At least that's what Cuban officials and his father said at the time.

The air we breathe outdoors could be harming more people than ever, a new study suggests.

Our mission: Find the spiciest, most lip-burning, tongue-scalding, stomach-scorching dish in South Korea.

Here are nine things to know about what the World Health Organization calls "one of the world's most virulent diseases."

There is still no way to know for sure why MH370 ended, but we are learning more about the lives lost in this tragedy.

If I live to be 100, playing handball against the garage door, staying up until the wee hours, drinking the wine from my own grapes, I will have a nice Midwestern boy named Dan to thank.

How a gang rape shocked the world, uniting local and international voices in defense of women's rights.