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Austria is days away from ordering millions of unvaccinated people to stay at home, its chancellor said Thursday, in a rare move that underscores the increasing exasperation of European leaders towards those who have not yet been inoculated against Covid-19.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has further cemented his power at a key meeting of the Communist Party elite, overseeing the passing of a landmark resolution that paves the way for him to secure a third term in office.

A 23-year-old man has been arrested in India for allegedly threatening to rape the infant daughter of the country's cricket captain, Virat Kohli, as team members face a barrage of online abuse following their disappointing T20 World Cup campaign.

The annual Global Grad Show in Dubai is never short on ideas. Some are bewildering, but others might just change the world.

A new version of the COP26 draft agreement was published early on Friday and retains a reference to fossil fuels, despite a fierce campaign from major coal, oil and gas producers to have it removed.

Jashyah Moore, who went missing from her home in New Jersey nearly a month ago, has been found safe in New York City, officials said Thursday.

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China's Shanghai Metro is the biggest metro system in the world - and one of the busiest. CNN's David Culver takes a look at how the massive metro-rail system is preparing for a greener future.

When I was a child in Gambia, my brother Pa Ousman and I would talk about what we'd do when we grew up. Our answer was always the same: we would go to America, the land of opportunity.

Once set to be a global example for green energy, the eco-friendly Colorado community of Geos, is now threatened by new developers and gas companies. CNN's Bill Weir reports.

The judge presiding over the homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse confused observers after making a strange and off-color joke inside the courtroom on Thursday.

A California man wanted by the FBI for his alleged role in the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol has fled the US to seek asylum in Belarus. CNN's Mathew Chance reports.

Alibaba reported another year of record sales figures for Singles Day, the world's largest annual shopping event.

• Date set for Biden-Xi virtual summit

It was once an exclusive five-star resort floating directly over Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Today, it sits dilapidated in a North Korean port, a 20-minute drive from the Demilitarized Zone, the restricted area that separates the two Koreas.

A Hong Kong activist dubbed "Captain America 2.0" for wielding the superhero's shield at pro-democracy protests was jailed for nearly six years on Thursday under a national security law, after a court ruled he promoted independence from China.

The Perseverance rover took a well-deserved break in October during solar conjunction, but it's back to investigating intriguing rocks in Jezero Crater on Mars.

The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), a top body of clerics, has ruled that using cryptocurrencies as a means of payment is unlawful in Islam, but trading of digital assets could be allowed, one of its leaders said on Thursday.

Former President Donald Trump has asked a federal appeals court to briefly stop the release of key White House records from his presidency to the House January 6 committee while he appeals a lower court's decision that he can't claim executive privilege to keep them secret.

A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts approached the International Space Station, which orbits more than 200 miles above Earth, and made a gentle in-orbit meet-up, kicking off the astronauts' six-month stay at the space station.

As the world looks to curb climate change and reduce fossil fuel emissions, some companies are focusing on a relatively untapped but vast and abundant source of energy — tidal waves.

Dar-Lon Chang once held out hope that the fossil fuel industry would pivot to clean energy.

A Missouri man who has maintained his innocence in a triple murder got an opportunity to testify at a three-day hearing that could lead to his release after serving 43 years in prison. That decision is now in a judge's hands.

American gymnast Suni Lee, an Olympic gold medal winner and the first Hmong American to compete in the Olympics, said she was pepper-sprayed in a racist incident while in Los Angeles for her stint on "Dancing with the Stars."

The House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection appears to be ramping up.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has apologized for misleading a UK court about whether she and Prince Harry had provided information to the authors of an unauthorized biography about the couple, reports the UK's PA Media press agency.

The Trump Organization could lose the keys to an 18-hole public golf course with views of the Manhattan skyline in the coming weeks, making it another likely casualty to stem from former President Donald Trump's actions on January 6 before rioters stormed the US Capitol.

President Joe Biden's highly anticipated virtual summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to take place on Monday, people familiar with the matter say.

Former South African president and Nobel peace prize winner FW de Klerk has died at 85, the FW de Klerk Foundation said on Thursday.

Thousands are stranded at the border between Belarus and Poland in Europe, caught at the center of an intensifying geopolitical dispute in which the European Union, the United States and NATO have accused Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko of manufacturing a migrant crisis on the EU's eastern frontier. Hear from two refugees who crossed the border and made it to a refugee camp in Poland.

Germany's capital Berlin will ban unvaccinated people from restaurants, bars, cinemas and other entertainment venues from Monday, as the country grapples with its highest surge in Covid-19 cases to date.

Overtourism is regularly blamed for choking historic cities, covering world-famous sights in trash, and killing local life in tourist hotspots across the world. Now tourists having sex is said to be behind the gradual destruction of a beach and nature reserve in Europe.

Elon Musk has sold his first block of Tesla shares since 2016, exercising some stock options and then selling a portion of that to raise the cash he'll need to pay taxes on the shares he acquired.

Migrants trapped on the border between Poland and Belarus have made hundreds of attempts to breach the frontier, but were repelled by 15,000 Polish soldiers deployed to stop them, according to Polish authorities.

Russia sent warplanes over Belarus airspace as outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to "exert his influence" on Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko to stop an escalating migrant crisis at the country's border with Poland. CNN's John Vause discusses with Franak Viačorka, Senior Advisor to Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.

Kyle Rittenhouse's defense plans to call several more witnesses, including a doctor and a Kenosha Police officer, on Thursday -- a day after Rittenhouse offered his own crucial testimony for the jury.

• Judge rejects another Trump attempt to slow down documents from going to House January 6 committee

"Rust" movie crew member Serge Svetnoy has filed a lawsuit against several key figures including Alec Baldwin at the center of the fatal on-set shooting that claimed the life of the film's cinematographer.

Joe Biden's next political nightmare is inflation, a force that can destroy family budgets and political careers and is being driven by domestic and global factors tough for a president to quickly fix.

Several heated exchanges between the Kenosha County Circuit Court judge and a prosecutor Wednesday stunned viewers of the Kyle Rittenhouse homicide trial, but it's a kind of scene not unusual for this specific judge, experts and attorneys told CNN.

A federal judge said she would not help former President Donald Trump as he attempts to buy time as he argues to keep secret records from his presidency, pointing him instead to an appeals court to seek help. CNN's Chris Cuomo and legal analyst Norm Eisen discuss.

China is ready to manage differences with the United States, the country's leader Xi Jinping said on Tuesday, ahead of a planned virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden.

An Austrian brothel is handing out vouchers to anyone over 18 who agrees to get vaccinated as the government banned unvaccinated people from public spaces. CNN's Bianca Nobilo has more.