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Thousands of tennis fans descended on Melbourne Park to watch stars including Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams kick off the Australian Open on Monday, after a three-week postponement and high drama over the quarantine of players.

CNN's Sunlen Serfaty sits down for an exclusive interview with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki after her first weeks in the role for the Biden administration.

Normally at this time of year, hundreds of millions of Chinese people would be packing highways, trains and planes on homebound trips to celebrate the Lunar New Year with their family.

South African health officials said Sunday they're pausing the country's rollout of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine after a study showed it offered reduced protection from the Covid-19 variant first identified there.

The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, mainly driven by the African variant, is bringing hospitals in Blantyre, Malawi to the brink. Doctors there are also facing a severe shortage of vaccines which the rich countries have procured already. CNN's David McKenzie goes into a hospital where doctors are working round the clock to battle the pandemic.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told a Jerusalem court he is not guilty of one charge of bribery and three charges of fraud and breach of trust.

Around 157 people are missing and at least two were confirmed dead after a glacier burst, triggering flash floods in India's northern Uttarakhand state on Sunday.

Don't let Super Bowl Sunday turn into Superspreader Sunday.

Nearly three weeks into office, President Joe Biden is trying to do what he knows how to do best -- connect with average Americans, letting them know he understands their suffering and offering words of comfort. But instead of doing so quietly on the campaign trail, he's now using those skills to win a different kind of campaign -- to sell his massive Covid-19 relief package to the American people.

Anna says she did not want to break the UK's Covid-19 lockdown rules.

A man who was arrested and sentenced to death for taking part in anti-government protests as a teen in Saudi Arabia has had his sentence commuted, his father told CNN Sunday.

Poll of the week: A new Axios/Ipsos poll finds that 63% of adults say they have had or are likely to get the Covid-19 vaccine as soon as it's made available to them. That's the highest ever recorded by Ipsos.

The images of Russian riot cops cracking down on protesters have sparked outrage around the world. Thousands have been detained, and some say they were mistreated by police while in custody. CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports.

Tens of thousands of protesters overcame a post-coup internet blackout as they took to the streets of Myanmar's largest city for a second consecutive day on Sunday, demanding the release of deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

In his first phone call with new United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, China's top diplomat has again pinned the blame on Washington for plunging bilateral relations to their lowest point in decades, and rejected international criticism of Beijing's policies in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.

Pro-democracy protests broke out in Myanmar's largest city on Saturday, with thousands of people taking to the streets of Yangon in the first major organized demonstration since the military seized power in a coup earlier this week.

Take a passing glance at Dubai, and you may think life is back to normal. In recent weeks, the bustling city has been a sparkling attraction for tourists, especially from Europe, trying to escape the brutal winter and strict coronavirus lockdowns.

Northern Ireland's Brexit backlash has arrived. It snuck in through a side door the European Union rashly opened last week when it threatened to trigger the most contentious part of the Brexit deal, article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol, and has quickly escalated.

President Joe Biden's team is promising new guidance on school reopenings next week. But even as more Covid-19 vaccine shots go into arms two and half weeks into his administration, there is growing impatience and frustration among parents about the biggest question looming over their lives: when their children can get back in the classroom.

On a key highway into India's capital, men are doing their laundry in washing machines set up under a makeshift tent.

More than a year after the first cases of Covid-19 were detected in Wuhan, China, Go There travels back to the city of 11 million people to hear about the lessons learned from the pandemic. David Culver was in Wuhan in January 2020 -- when he had to leave hours before a massive lockdown -- and has since revisited the city twice, getting to know the stories of ordinary residents who were the first to experience a once-in-a-100-years virus outbreak that has since swept the world.

CNN's Vedika Sud reports from the outskirts of Delhi, where thousands of protesting farmers infuriated by new agricultural reforms are living in tents.

• CNN goes inside a gathering of QAnon followers

Christopher Plummer, who starred in "The Sound of Music" and won an Academy Award for his performance in "Beginners," died Friday at his home in Connecticut, his manager said in a statement.

CNN's Brianna Keilar speaks to North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum about his decision to end the state's mask mandate during the coronavirus pandemic.

While taking reporter questions after the House voted to remove her from committee assignments, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) refused to answer questions from CNN's Jessica Dean on specific remarks about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Both chambers of Congress have now passed a budget resolution, a key procedural step that sets up the ability for Democrats to pass President Joe Biden's sweeping $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package without the threat of a filibuster from Republicans who oppose it.

It's called COVAX -- and it may be the best hope in vaccinating the world.

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African nations are being left behind in obtaining Covid-19 vaccines as richer countries stockpile vaccines and prioritize their own populations -- despite a surge in cases and a new variant affecting the continent.

Hong Kong has introduced sweeping new restrictions for how schools operate, months after the Beijing government imposed a new national security law giving authorities wide-ranging powers to crack down on vaguely defined political crimes.

Dr. Alfonso Velandia starts each hospital shift by counting his troops in the battle against coronavirus.

I woke to the sound of my fiancée muttering "f*@!" under her breath on Christmas Eve.

In the first two weeks of the Joe Biden presidency, through the medium of Thursday's powerful speech, sweeping executive orders, a raft of phone calls to leaders on every continent, and an astonishingly, at time exhaustingly regular, series of press conferences, the first outlines of a Biden foreign and defense policy have begun to emerge. It is as total a reversal of the policies of his predecessor as are Biden's economic, Covid-19 and broad domestic agendas.

CNN's Donie O'Sullivan went inside a gathering of QAnon followers in Arizona, just a couple of weeks before the 2020 election.

The House impeachment managers on Thursday requested Donald Trump testify at his upcoming Senate impeachment trial, in a dramatic move to try to get the former President on the record about his conduct surrounding the January 6 riots at the Capitol.

Frustration boiled over on the Senate floor after Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) refused to wear a mask, provoking a strong reaction from Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH).

President Joe Biden announced 'America is back' and declared 'diplomacy is back at the center' of US foreign policy as he announced the US will end all support for offensive operations in Yemen and will appoint an envoy to focus on the long-standing conflict, one of several changes he announced in his first major foreign policy speech since taking office.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer walked across the House floor with an enlarged photo of a Facebook post from freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). The post features an AR-15 and members of the so-called "Squad." CNN's Ryan Nobles reports.

The leader of al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen has been under arrest for several months, the United Nations disclosed Thursday in a development that may have opened up a goldmine of information for counterterrorism agencies in their campaign against the global al Qaeda network.