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The European Parliament has voted to ban a range of single-use plastics such as straws, cotton buds and cutlery and to ensure most bottles are recycled in a bid to curb ocean pollution.

Irish voters head to the polls Friday where they will be asked to vote on removing the offense of blasphemy from the constitution.

The stock market rout has rolled into Asia.

It was the awkward moment beamed around the world.

CIA director Gina Haspel is set to brief President Donald Trump on the investigation into the death of Jamal Khashoggi on Thursday, as the President increasingly expresses frustration with the Saudi response and the country's crown prince vows "justice" for the journalist's killers.

Donald Trump's unconventional approach to, well, everything is a hallmark of his presidency. It's at least part of why he got elected two years ago. But even by his own unorthodox standards, his answer to a question Tuesday from the Wall Street Journal stands out.

One of Asia's top airlines has discovered a data breach in which the personal information of more than 9 million passengers may have been stolen.

Scotland may change the laws around game hunting after a US hunter attracted fierce criticism for posing with a dead wild goat and other animals killed on Islay in the Inner Hebrides.

CNN's Chris Cuomo discusses President Donald Trump's rhetoric after suspicious packages were sent to top political figures across the country and CNN.

Four years ago, Tim Cook became the first CEO of a major company to come out as gay. He says he's happy about that distinction — and his decision.

President Donald Trump has always had a very casual relationship with the truth. From his roots as a self-promoting businessman in New York City to his late-in-life political career, he's showed a penchant for prevarication, to purposely misleading for his business or political benefit.

Over a billion dollars has been invested, but Qatari-owned Paris Saint-Germain's ambition to challenge Europe's top clubs remains very much a work in progress.

The stock market plunged Wednesday. The Dow fell more than 600 points, a 2.4% drop. The S&P 500 sank more than 3% as well. Both the Dow and S&P 500 are now down for the year.

Authorities have intercepted suspicious devices intended for former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and the Florida office of Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was evacuated Wednesday after a suspicious package was mailed there.

CNN's Poppy Harlow and Jim Scuitto report outside CNN's New York bureau, moments after NYPD evacuated the Time Warner Center due to a suspicious package.

Some crazy lucky ticket holder is about to cash in on the biggest Mega Millions jackpot in history -- $1.537 billion.

After days of nationwide lotto fever, the Mega Millions numbers are out. And the wait is on for the nation's newest billionaire.

Never before has the New York City pizza scene been as strong and diverse as it is today. World-famous pizzaiolos are continually trying to break ground in this food epicenter to see if their pies can compete, and other types, such as Detroit-style pizza, are starting to become popular pizza contenders too.

A strikingly rectangular, naturally formed ice sheet has been spotted by NASA during a regular flyover on October 16.

Donald Trump fixed reporters with a hard gaze and declared: "I'm a very nonpolitical person, and that's why I got elected President."

Twenty people have been injured after an escalator malfunctioned and rapidly sped downward at a Rome metro station, leaving passengers in a jumble at the bottom, Italian officials say.

Researchers discovered 19 wooden sculptures that were buried approximately 750 years ago at the Chan Chan archaeological complex in northern Peru.

Juventus' margin of victory wasn't as comprehensive as former Manchester United player Phil Neville had predicted before Tuesday's Champions League tie at Old Trafford. Neville, a member of the famed "Class of '92," was expecting the team which leads Serie A by four points to give his former club a thumping.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will take part in a panel at Riyadh's investment conference on Wednesday, a senior organizer told CNN, in what will be his first public speech since slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi was declared missing.

A lion cub that was being kept illegally in an apartment in Val-de-Marne, a Paris suburb, was found Tuesday night and its owner was arrested, according to a spokesman for France's National Hunting and Wildlife Agency.

A trip by the Duchess of Sussex to a market in the Fijian capital of Suva was cut short Wednesday after large crowds were deemed to present a "security risk," according to Australian media reports.

Koeberle Bull got on Facebook and saw several racist, cruel messages that used the N-word and wished death on her three African-American children.

A Japanese journalist who was captured by militants in Syria three years ago is believed to have been released, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters on Tuesday.

The transgender community is on high alert after a leaked memo suggested the Trump administration wants to create a legal definition of sex as "a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth," according to The New York Times.

The Chinese government is trying to hijack one of this year's hottest social trends for its own propaganda purposes.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has secured $6 billion in financial support from Saudi Arabia as Riyadh reels from international outrage over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

A group of would-be thieves were prevented from robbing a store in Belgium Saturday after the owner said he didn't have enough money in the cash register and asked them to come back later.

First, Beijing slapped tariffs on American soybeans. Now, it wants to wean its farmers off them altogether.

When the British street artist Banksy shredded his "Girl With Balloon" after it was purchased for US$1.4 million at Sotheby's, did he know how the art world would react?

Canadian Rapper Jon James was killed while shooting a music video atop the wing of an airplane.

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro wouldn't offer a time frame Tuesday for how long it will take President Donald Trump to reach a trade deal with China amid escalating rounds of tariffs.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his unsubstantiated assertion that "unknown Middle Easterners" are traveling in a migrant caravan traveling north to the United States from Central America, but admitted "there's no proof of anything."

Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor revealed in a letter on Tuesday that she has been diagnosed with the "beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer's disease."

A cruise ship spilled thousands of gallons of liquid food waste in the Great Barrier Reef in August, according to an ongoing investigation by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority -- potentially damaging a reef already plagued by pollution and coral bleaching.

Donald Trump is waging one of the most inflammatory closing arguments of any modern campaign, lacing his midterm rhetoric with easily disprovable claims that are building on the fact-challenged foundation of his presidency.

The European Commission rejected Italy's draft budget Tuesday, the first time the European Union executive has thrown out a government's spending plans since the single currency was introduced nearly 20 years ago.

A passenger who was filmed racially abusing an elderly woman on a European flight has been identified, UK police have said.

France's niqab ban violates the human rights of Muslim women and risks "confining them to their homes," the United Nations Human Rights Committee said Tuesday.