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A senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has resigned, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN on Thursday.

As Typhoon Hagibis threatens to wreak havoc in Japan, travelers may find themselves having to change plans at the last minute.

China and India desperately want to improve their trade relationship. But it seems whenever the countries' leaders meet, the Himalayas get in the way.

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was pranked by two Russians pretending to be Turkey's minister of defense in an August phone call, his office said on Thursday.

During a press conference Wednesday, President Donald Trump mentioned that the Kurds did not join the US during the invasion of Normandy in 1944 as part of his defense for removing troops from northern Syria, providing Turkey with a clear shot to attack the Kurds.

CNN Sports Correspondent Christina Macfarlane was shut down at a press conference when she asked Houston Rockets players how they feel about speaking out on social issues in the future.

European Union citizens living in the UK could be deported if they do not apply for settled status after a no-deal Brexit, a British government minister has warned.

"Refund! Refund! Refund!" was the refrain among passengers gathered in the atrium of Norwegian Spirit cruise ship earlier this week after operators canceled another port of call on the voyage's two-week European itinerary.

In Iowa on Wednesday, CNN's Randi Kaye asked Vice President Mike Pence whether he stood by his strongly stated opposition to foreign governments involving themselves in US elections in light of President Donald Trump's pressure campaign against Ukraine to dig dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden.

An environmental activist climbed on top of a plane on the runway of London's City Airport Thursday, as part of a series of protests at the site by the group Extinction Rebellion.

This might be Donald Trump's most unpopular foreign policy decision yet.

Tennis star Naomi Osaka has decided to take sole Japanese nationality over US citizenship with a view to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, according to Japanese public broadcaster NHK.

Two Rugby World Cup matches scheduled for Saturday have been canceled on safety grounds as Super Typhoon Hagibis approaches Japan, tournament organizers announced at a press conference on Thursday.

Concerns are growing over the humanitarian impact caused by Turkey's military offensive into northeastern Syria, an operation that has sparked a political firestorm in the United States over the fate of US-allied Kurds in the area.

Remember when Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain defined "grunge" without even trying?

The United States just handicapped China's lofty artificial intelligence ambitions.

Streaming live from a camera mounted on his helmet, a gunman pushed on the doors of a synagogue, fired several shots at a lock on the door, stuck an explosive in a door jam and lit it.

A Japanese businessman had a watch worth more than $800,000 seized from his wrist outside a five-star hotel in Paris, police said.

Humans may not be able to regrow amputated limbs like salamanders can -- but we do have a "salamander-like" ability to regrow damaged cartilage, a new study has found.

Authorities are clamping down on the cafes that line one of Hanoi's most famous roads, citing overtourism and safety concerns.

Hillary Clinton is having fun at President Donald Trump's expense, but that doesn't mean she is seriously weighing another run for president, several of the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee's close advisers tell CNN.

Even as the White House appears to settle on the legal tactics to stave off Democrats' impeachment demands, uncertainty and unease over Trump's messaging approach remains high among his Republican allies, who see the ever-growing inquiry consuming the White House.

Hagibis has been a super typhoon for more than 60 hours, making it the longest-lived super typhoon this year.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on member states to pay their outstanding contributions, as the organization faces such a "severe financial crisis" that staff salaries risk not being paid next month.

Two people have been killed in a shooting incident near a synagogue in the eastern German town of Halle, according to local police.

By night, Baghdad's streets are eerily quiet, punctuated with smatterings of gunfire -- be it a single shot or something more sustained and intense.

A mysterious oil spill, which has contaminated a number of postcard beaches in northeastern Brazil, may have been illegally dumped, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday according to state-news agency Agencia Brasil.

Turkey's military is set to cross into northern Syria "shortly," the Turkish communications director said, as part of an impending offensive to move US-backed Kurdish forces away from its border.

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino for their research in improving battery technology.

Singapore has knocked the United States out of the top spot in the World Economic Forum's annual competitiveness report.

Donald Trump drove Democrats to the first crucial pivot point of their impeachment confrontation on Tuesday with a defiant declaration that his administration would not cooperate with the investigation.

Nearly 500,000 Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) customers in northern California will be in the dark starting at midnight Wednesday as the company begins shutting off power in an effort to help prevent starting a wildfire.

The NBA controversy in China this week over a tweet from a Houston Rockets executive has now affected America's leading sports network.

• No-nonsense UK speaker goes out swinging• UK speaker emotionally reflects on murdered MP Jo Cox

Speaker John Bercow is bowing out of the UK Parliament -- and he's leaving with a volley of parting shots for his many critics.

He says he doesn't feel guilty for the lie that got him into America.

On the Polynesian island of Tahiti, there is said to be something akin to a sixth sense -- one that belongs to neither men nor women. Instead, it is the sole domain of the "mahu," a community recognized as being outside the traditional male-female divide.

Last January, 102 people boarded a ferry from a remote island in the South Pacific. Only seven of them survived.