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The devastating armyworm pest has already spread to more than 8,500 hectares of China's grain production and could soon affect the country's entire crop, a new US government report said this week.

A consequential round of trade talks between the United States and China began with smiles and a dinner Thursday evening in Washington. Yet the outward optimism did not appear to translate into a last-minute agreement that could stave off a planned increase in tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods.

Overflowing toilets in overcrowded cells. Food and sleep deprivation. Forced injections.

Former FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that it is possible the Russians have leverage over President Donald Trump.

John Kerry responded to President Donald Trump accusing the former Secretary of State of violating of the Logan Act by taking part in negotiations with Iran's government. CNN's Michelle Kosinski reports.

Largely forgotten by China's health system, young transgender men and women are turning to dangerous alternatives such as a black market drugs and even life-threatening self surgery, according to a new report.

Arsenal will play in the Europa League final after a mightily impressive victory over Spanish club Valencia on Thursday.

Two alleged Russian intelligence agents have been convicted on terrorism charges for their role in an attempted 2016 coup in the small European nation of Montenegro. Both were tried in absentia, and their whereabouts are unknown.

The most hyped IPO of the year turned out to be smaller than some expected.

Paris police have warned that the melted roof of Notre Dame Cathedral has left extremely high levels of lead in the square in front of the fire-damaged building and the roads around it, but added there was no danger of toxic inhalation.

More than 1,000 guns were found Wednesday in a home in the upscale Los Angeles neighborhood Holmby Hills.

An American woman who has been prevented from leaving China for almost a year made an emotional plea this week for her family to be able to return home.

North Korea has fired at least one unidentified projectile, South Korea's military said Thursday.

Former England football star David Beckham has been banned from driving for six months after he was caught using his mobile phone behind the wheel.

BBC radio broadcaster Danny Baker has been fired after posting a racist tweet about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's new baby.

Pope Francis issued new global rules Thursday for reporting sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, mandating for the first time that all dioceses set up systems for reporting abuse and cover-ups.

The constitutional showdown between President Donald Trump and House Democrats is taking a grave new twist that threatens to embroil the nation in a deep political and legal nightmare that could last for years.

The world's most popular sport has just seen three consecutive nights of wonder, the likes of which few fans have ever seen before -- or will ever see again.

China and the United States were moving towards an agreement to end a months-long trade war when, suddenly, it all fell apart this week.

Thailand's main opposition party has won more seats than anyone else in the country's parliament -- in the first election since a military coup five years ago -- but it won't get to choose the country's next leader.

Lucas Moura scored a dramatic last minute winner to send Tottenham Hotspur into the Champions League final for the first time in its history after an astonishing comeback against Ajax in Amsterdam.

Juan Guaido says he remains a free man because the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro is afraid of the consequences of arresting him.

More than two decades have passed since South Africa overhauled a racist regime designed to keep the country's black population under the thumb of an elite white minority.

The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress, escalating the looming constitutional collision over the Mueller report between congressional Democrats and the Trump administration.

Tax expert Richard Pomp discusses President Trump's response after the New York Times obtained some of Trump's tax information that shows he lost over a billion dollars from 1985-1994.

The chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei was back in a Canadian court Wednesday for what is shaping up to be a very long battle against extradition to the United States.

Britain's Duke and Duchess of Sussex are continuing to balance innovation with the need to maintain traditions in their choice of name for their son.

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Royal couple share first moment as a family

Andy Robertson was perhaps unwise to rile Lionel Messi early on, pushing down on the Argentine's head as he sat on the turf after being floored by a legitimate tackle.

Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman freed from death row last year has arrived in Canada, according to her lawyer, Saif Ul Malook.

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison gets egged on the head. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on protest projectiles.

Twenty-five years after the dawn of democracy in South Africa, citizens are heading to the polls in their millions.

At least six people are dead after a suicide blast targeted police posted outside the Data Darbar shrine in Lahore, Pakistan, officials told CNN.

Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman freed from death row last year has arrived in Canada, according to her lawyer, Saif Ul Malook.

Authorities said "multiple students" were injured Tuesday in a shooting at a school in suburban Denver.

Iran is expected to partially withdraw from the landmark nuclear deal it signed with the United States and five other nations in 2015, following Washington's own reneging on the agreement and increased diplomatic and military pressure on Tehran.

"This is the climate election," declared Queensland Greens Senator Larissa Waters at a Brisbane forum, weeks before the Australian election this month.

Beijing has rejected US accusations that the Chinese government has detained large numbers of Muslims in the Xinjiang region in what former detainees describe as re-education centers with prison-like conditions. CNN's Matt Rivers investigates.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's prosecutors didn't want former FBI Director James Comey's memos released because they feared that President Donald Trump and other witnesses could change their stories after reading Comey's version of events, according to an argument they made in a January 2018 sealed court hearing.