CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition

In the depths of space, a speeding projectile races away from Earth and toward a date with destiny.

• 'Sort this out': Fury over Facebook's chaotic news ban

Louise Bourgeois's spiders, towering and delicate, are located around the world, from Kansas City to Seoul. The largest sculpture in the series, "Maman" -- French for mother -- stands 30 feet tall at London's Tate Modern; powerfully crouched, its spindly bronze legs taper down to exquisite pinpoints. Underneath the spider's abdomen, a metal egg sac full of white marble orbs hangs ominously over viewers' heads. Though Bourgeois didn't begin her spiders until she was in her eighties, they have become her best-known works.

The unthinkable could be about to happen.

Since "day one" of the military coup, Burmese actress Paing Phyo Thu -- one of the country's highest-paid stars -- says she has been on the streets opposing the ruling junta.

A week after the Tokyo 2020 Olympics chief resigned in the wake of making sexist comments, another male octogenarian leader in Japan has attracted ire by spouting misogynistic remarks.

Serena Williams has been denied her opportunity to match Australian Margaret Court's record of 24 major singles titles after she was beaten by 23-year-old Naomi Osaka at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Thursday.

Fire and emergency services. Domestic violence charities. State health agencies.

An Indian court has ruled in favor of a female journalist who was sued for defamation after accusing a former minister of sexual harassment, in one of the country's earliest and most prominent #MeToo cases.

China has withdrawn troops, dismantled infrastructure and vacated camps along its disputed border with India, according to new satellite images -- just a week after both countries agreed to a mutual disengagement.

Volunteers work to rescue cold-stunned sea turtles amid winter storms in Texas. CNN affiliate KRGV reports.

A Malaysian court on Thursday ordered Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, to enter a defense in a corruption trial linked to a multi-million-dollar project approved while the ex-premier was still in power.

AstraZeneca's contract to supply the UK with 100 million Covid-19 vaccine doses commits it to making "best reasonable efforts," the same language used in its deal with the European Union, which critics blamed for the bloc's faltering inoculation program.

Life expectancy in the US dropped a full year in the first half of 2020, according to a report published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. Experts say that Covid-19 was a significant factor contributing to the decline.

Tourists who take selfies with wild mountain gorillas could put the primates at risk of developing Covid-19, according to new research.

President Joe Biden's promise to try to open schools within his first 100 days has become one of most vexing puzzles facing the new administration, leading to confusion and anger among parents who still aren't getting clear answers.

The US attorney's office in Brooklyn, along with the FBI, is scrutinizing the handling of some of the data surrounding Covid-19 deaths in long term care facilities in New York, according to a law enforcement official.

South Korean volleyball twins Lee Jae-yeong and Lee Da-yeong have been dropped from their national and club sides amid claims of teenage bullying.

Joe Ligon, believed to be the oldest and longest-serving juvenile lifer in the United States, has been released from a Pennsylvania prison after spending nearly seven decades behind bars.

The former rogue FBI informant handler for mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger will be released from a Florida prison on a conditional medical release, a spokesman for the Florida Commission on Offender Review told CNN.

Demi Lovato is under no obligation to share the deeply personal story of her struggle with mental health and addiction with the public, but the singer is choosing to do it on her own terms in a new four-part YouTube documentary, the trailer for which was released on Wednesday.

Live updates | Low bandwidth? Access CNN's lite site | Photos

In Rwanda's lush green grasslands, romance isn't dead, but it's had a brush with extinction in recent years. The country's gray crowned cranes -- birds which dance for each other, often pair for life and share chick-raising duties -- fell victim to their own popularity.

The US health care system has been strained near capacity by the Covid outbreak.

In January 2019, Simisola Oke traveled with a friend to Flachau, one of Austria's busiest ski areas. Following their arrival, they were greeted with many hellos and waves from fellow skiers. Initially, "we just assumed people were being kind and friendly, or maybe they thought we were famous," Oke recalls.

A storm system that is bringing snow and freezing rain to parts of the country dealing with power and water outages is also threatening to soak already saturated parts of the Southeast.

A day after Kylian Mbappe lit up the Champions League with an impressive hat trick against Barcelona, Erling Braut Haaland netted a wonderful brace as the game's new stars continue to take center stage.

Russia is becoming a major provider of Covid-19 vaccines to Latin America, a move that could have long-standing consequences in shaping the post-pandemic world and further dent US prestige in the region.

• Biden speaks with Netanyahu after delay raised questions

• Analysis: The most ridiculous claim in Trump's statement slamming Mitch McConnell• Opinion: McConnell might still get last laugh

A new report published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday suggests that Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine can protect people against concerning new coronavirus variants, including one first seen in South Africa called B.1.351.

Promotions of two female generals were delayed by Pentagon officials until after the 2020 presidential election out of fear of "turmoil" from President Donald Trump's White House, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

CNN's Richard Quest talks to Rwandan President Paul Kagame about the terrorism trial for Paul Rusesabagina, the real-life inspiration for the movie "Hotel Rwanda."

Ford is spending $1 billion to modernize a plant in Germany as part of a plan to sell only electric passenger cars in Europe by 2030.

Alfe Ingve Berntsen remembers the first time he laid eyes on this scrawny kid with an appetite for goals.

Lourdes "Lola" Leon, daughter of pop icon Madonna, is the new face for The Marc Jacobs' Spring 2021 campaign.

Former Ambassador to China Terry Branstad describes meeting Xi Jinping in the 1980s as the Iowa governor when Xi was a young Communist official.

CNN's Brianna Keilar corrects Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott after he blamed renewable energy for power shortages during a winter storm.

Europe is now trading more goods with China than the United States, a sign of how the pandemic is transforming the global economy.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been pleading with lawmakers for support and even threatening political retribution against Democrats who have criticized him in an aggressive effort to contain political fallout from revelations that his administration had concealed the full extent of nursing home-related deaths during the Covid pandemic.

Rush Limbaugh, the conservative media icon who for decades used his perch as the king of talk-radio to shape the politics of both the Republican Party and nation, died Wednesday after a battle with cancer. He was 70 years old.

Dinosaurs might have been wiped out by a comet instead of an asteroid, a new study says.

A string of recent Covid-related attacks against Asian Americans has communities on high alert. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.

Maersk says it will launch the world's first carbon neutral cargo ship in 2023, as efforts to clean up one of the planet's worst polluting industries gain momentum.