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Russian forces have looted and destroyed a laboratory near the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant that was used to monitor radioactive waste, the Ukrainian government said Wednesday.

The roar of a fighter jet engine forces Andriy into silence.

Russia's war in Ukraine is approaching the one-month mark, and its troops' advancement on some key cities, including the capital of Kyiv, appears to have slowed.

In the month since Russia invaded Ukraine, at least 10 million people have fled their homes. But for countless more refugees across the world, Vladimir Putin's assault on democracy began long before 2022.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will marry his fiancée, Stella Moris, at Belmarsh prison in London Wednesday, the WikiLeaks media team said in a statement.

The work week at the Buchenwald Memorial -- which honors the lives lost at the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp -- began Monday with a shock: In the morning, we received the news from Ukraine that our friend Boris Romantschenko, a survivor of Buchenwald and three other concentration camps, had died when a Russian missile struck his multi-story apartment building in Kharkiv.

A large tornado battered parts of the New Orleans area on Tuesday night, with damage reported in Arabi and the Lower Ninth Ward.

World no. 1 Ashleigh Barty announced on Wednesday she was retiring from professional tennis after winning three major singles titles in the last three years.

One passenger was a mother, flying to visit the daughter she hadn't seen for several years. Another was a woman on her way to reunite with her fiancé after months apart.

When Russian armed forces launched an unprovoked assault on Ukraine last month, Beijing appeared to side with Moscow, accusing the United States and its NATO allies of inviting conflict by allowing their security bloc to expand eastward.

Sri Lanka posted soldiers at hundreds of state-run gas stations on Tuesday to help distribute fuel after a sudden rise in prices of key commodities and accompanying shortages forced tens of thousands of people to queue for hours.

On Monday, after intense fighting, Ukrainian forces regained control of Makariv, a town west of Kyiv that had been battered by Russian airstrikes.

An intense firefight between Ukrainian forces and the Russian military in the village of Velyka Dymerka, roughly 18 miles northeast of Kyiv, was caught on camera in new video circulating social media. CNN has geolocated and verified the authenticity of the video. CNN's Anderson Cooper has more.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's chief spokesman has conceded that Russia has yet to achieve any of its military goals in Ukraine and refused to deny that Moscow could resort to the use of nuclear weapons.

During Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz pressed Jackson about critical race theory. CNN's Abby Philip breaks down the moment.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov talks to CNN's Christiane Amanpour about the sentencing of Russian opposition leader and activist Alexey Navalny.

The US and NATO believe that Belarus could "soon" join Russia in its war against Ukraine, US and NATO officials tell CNN, and that the country is already taking steps to do so.

Russian opposition leader and jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was found guilty of fraud Tuesday, according to Russian state-owned news agency Tass.

No survivors of a China Eastern Airlines plane crash have been found as search efforts entered a second day Tuesday, according to Chinese state media.

I will never forget the first time I saw Russian warcraft in the skies above Aleppo. It was September 2015, I was in my garden with my wife Waad and a friend when we saw three Russian aircraft flying over together, launching a missile attack. I knew at that moment that everything was about to change.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is trying to prove there's truth in the old expression, 'the pen is mightier than the sword.' Or in his case -- the selfie video is mightier than the Russian fighter jet.

Dozens of homes and other buildings were badly damaged as severe storms and reported tornadoes moved through Texas Monday, and officials are setting up shelters for displaced families as they try to assess the full scope of the damage.

Your flight takes off from London's Heathrow Airport in three hours, but you're still in a meeting on the other side of the city, in a Canary Wharf skyscraper. There's no way you'll make it by public transport and traffic makes the taxi option even less appealing. How are you going to make that plane?

A China Eastern Airliner jet crashed in the mountains of southern China according to China's Civil Aviation Administration. All 132 passengers were killed. CNN's Pete Muntean reports.

The most troubling takeaway from President Joe Biden's warning that there is "evolving intelligence" that Russia is exploring options for cyberattacks is that US spy agencies have been spot on so far in predicting Vladimir Putin's moves.

Authentication services company Okta Inc said on Tuesday it is investigating a report of a digital breach after hackers posted screenshots of what they claimed were its internal company environment.

Dmytro and Tania Shvets spent the first 23 days of the war hiding in their cellar in Mariupol with their 7-year-old daughter, Vlada, and their parents. The family managed to escape the besieged Ukrainian city on Thursday, but their parents stayed behind.

Air pollution spiked to unhealthy levels around the world in 2021, according to a new report.

Japan reacted angrily on Tuesday after Russia withdrew from peace treaty talks with Japan and froze joint economic projects related to the disputed Kuril Islands because of sanctions imposed by Tokyo over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor, Borys Romanchenko, was killed Friday by a Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

Jacksboro Independent School District Superintendent Brad Burnett told CNN affiliate WFAA on Monday that a severe storm that slammed the Texas city caused significant damage to two schools.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearings kicked off Monday with more than four hours of speeches from senators, introductions of Jackson by two of her colleagues and remarks from the nominee herself.

US officials confirm that Russia is the first country to use hypersonic missiles ever in combat. CNN's Brian Todd tells us what this means for Ukraine.

Russian actress Masha Mashkova is speaking out against Russia's war in Ukraine after her father, Russian actor Vladimir Mashkov, spoke at Vladimir Putin's rally in support of the war.

Below is the text of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's opening statement at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing, as prepared for delivery:

CNN's Ivan Watson speaks with one family who evacuated Mariupol, Ukraine, as Russian forces bombed the city.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's story is an "American story" and shared what moved him about the nominee's daughter writing a letter to former President Obama about nominating her mom to the Supreme Court.

A Boeing-737 jetliner carrying 133 people crashed in the mountains in southern China's Guangxi region on Monday afternoon, with fire visible on site, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.

A new video to CNN shows an explosion and gunfire during what appears to be a peaceful protest in Kherson, Ukraine. At least one person has been reported injured in the incident.

Civilian casualties continue to mount as a result of Russian attacks on Ukraine, and the besieged city of Mariupol has refused to surrender despite constant bombardment. Here are the key developments from the weekend.