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US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a law supporting Hong Kong's months-long protest movement, handing anti-government demonstrators in the semi-autonomous Chinese city a moral victory and likely complicating trade negotiations with Beijing.

A species of carnivorous dinosaur that once roamed Madagascar 70 million years ago was so tough on its teeth that they needed to be replaced frequently, according to a new study.

An explosion rocked a Texas chemical plant early Wednesday, causing extensive damage across the small city of Port Neches and leaving at least three employees injured.

A rare portrait of a teenage Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart smashed auction estimates to sell for over 4 million euros ($4.4 million) in Paris on Wednesday.

Tokyo is arguably one of the most modern cities in the world, a heaving metropolis with its sights set fully on the future.

A school bus driver in Illinois has been arrested after, police say, she was caught on video drinking beer while picking up elementary school students.

A 46-year-old construction worker in China suffering from seizures turned out to have tapeworms in his brain -- suspected to be the result of eating undercooked meat.

In the next few weeks, the Korean Peninsula will face a watershed moment -- one which could upend the United States' alliances in northeast Asia and regional stability as a whole -- if three contentious issues are mismanaged.

If "Hasta la vista, baby," "You had me at hello," and "Yada, yada, yada" mean nothing to you, chances are you were not around in the 1990s, a decade whose legacy has yet to fully crystallize in our collective imagination. (These are popular catchphrases from "Terminator," "Jerry Maguire" and "Seinfeld.")

Brutal weather is making pre-Thanksgiving travel unpleasant or downright dangerous across the US, and leaving tens of thousands of people without power.

In Russia, the release of calendars featuring photos of Russian President Vladimir Putin has become an annual ritual.

Rick Perry, as well as being energy secretary, is also a bit of a self-styled theologian, as we saw on Fox News this past weekend. He told viewers that President Trump was installed in the Oval Office by God. Perry said he was a "big believer" that the Lord involves himself in the "details of the day-to-day lives of government," having picked Obama, too.

President Donald Trump said Mexican cartels will "absolutely" be designated as foreign terrorist organizations, a move which could lead to tougher financial penalties and legal ramifications in the US against those involved.

The Justice Department's inspector general did not find any evidence that the FBI had tried to put undercover agents or informants inside Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, people familiar with a draft of the inspector general's report told The New York Times.

Being stripped of a Michelin star can be pretty devastating for a chef, so French restaurateur Marc Veyrat was understandably disappointed when his restaurant lost its three-star status earlier this year.

An Armenian-born spy whom the Kremlin says helped to thwart a Nazi plot to assassinate Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin in 1943 has died aged 93.

New transcripts of witness testimony and news reports revealing key details on the Ukraine scandal timeline show in vivid detail the way President Donald Trump and top officials maneuvered behind the scenes to block aid to Ukraine as the President sought an investigation into his political rival Joe Biden.

Senior doctors in Zimbabwe's public hospitals have downed tools in protest against deteriorating working conditions and the firing of over 435 junior medical officers by the government following a three months-long impasse over poor salaries, the doctor's association said.

US private equity giant Silver Lake is investing $500 million in the owner of Manchester City, a deal that values the soccer group at nearly $5 billion and signals a concerted move by the veteran tech investors into sports.

Twitter has a message for anyone who doesn't do much with their account: Use it or lose it.

Jeremy Corbyn has presented hundreds of pages of unredacted government documents that he says prove the UK's National Health Service (NHS) "is on the table and will be up for sale," as part of US trade talks.

Early on October 1, 1964, a sleek blue and white train slid effortlessly across the urban sprawl of Tokyo, its elevated tracks carrying it south toward the city of Osaka and a place in the history books.

His side recovered from a two-goal deficit to win its Champions League tie, but new Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho saved his most effusive praise for a ball boy.

British celebrity chef Gary Rhodes has died aged 59, his family says.

Visiting a gibbon reserve in Indonesia during the summer of 2011, Topher White was struck by the sounds of the rainforest.

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The bodies of 16 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a truck in the UK in October arrived at Hanoi's Noi Bai airport on Wednesday.

The Chinese government's carefully constructed narrative around its Xinjiang detention centers appears to have been shattered by hundreds of pages of leaked documents published by Western media over the last two weeks.

A script for the latest 'Star Wars' film 'The Rise of Skywalker' leaked on Ebay but was recovered prior to being sold.

Taiwanese-Canadian model and actor Godfrey Gao has died, his agency said Wednesday. He was 35.

It's considered one of the best sushi restaurants in all of Japan, yet a famous restaurant bible won't recommend it. What gives?

Camila Cabello had a dark secret --- until yesterday.

Cheaper ingredients. Worse pizza?

The timeline has always been fishy.

Tales of criminal masterminds swindling away diamonds, rubies and emeralds in elaborate robberies have captured Hollywood's imagination for decades. But this week, a raid on a castle vault in Germany has reminded us that real-life jewelry heists are an unfortunate reality.

You couldn't ask for a better symbol of Hong Kong returning to relative normality after two weeks of chaotic unrest than traffic flowing through the Cross Harbor Tunnel.

CNN's Chris Cuomo examines how President Donald Trump plays the victim in order to defend himself against critics of his administration.

North Korea's recent military drill was more than just a show of force, featuring a volleyball game, musical performance and photo opportunity with Kim Jong Un. CNN's Brian Todd reports.

At least six people were injured after dozens of cars crashed on an icy highway near Spokane, Washington.

China has overtaken the United States as the country with the most diplomatic posts across the world, a stark indication of Beijing's growing international ambitions, a new report published by an Australian think tank has revealed.

Let's all take a moment for Lewis the koala.

Sen. John Kennedy is the exception that proves the rule. Kennedy backed away from the absurd Trumpworld fantasy that has claimed the minds of so many of his Republican colleagues. Now, as he told CNN's Chris Cuomo, the senator from Louisiana accepts the truth that it was Russia that interfered in America's 2016 election.

President Donald Trump had been briefed on the whistleblower complaint that's now at the heart of the House impeachment inquiry when he released military aid to Ukraine in September, The New York Times reported Monday, citing two people familiar with the matter.

House impeachment investigators released the final closed-door deposition transcripts from the impeachment inquiry on Tuesday with the interviews of State Department official Philip Reeker and Office of Management and Budget official Mark Sandy.

At least 140 people have been wounded after an earthquake with a preliminary rating of 6.4 magnitude struck Albania on Tuesday.