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China's largely ceremonial parliament overwhelmingly endorsed a controversial constitutional amendment, paving the way for President Xi Jinping to stay in power indefinitely.

The Bartini Beriev VVA-14 (above) is one of the most bizarre airplanes ever made. It could take off vertically and land on the water, and it was designed to search and destroy US submarines during the Cold War.

Amy Wright, the 2017 CNN Hero of the Year, has opened a second coffee shop -- in Charleston, SC.

A woman found unconscious on a shopping center bench in southern England next to a Russian former double agent is his daughter, a source told CNN on Tuesday.

The mystery surrounding former spy Sergei Skripal has prompted comparisons with Alexander Litvinenko -- also a former Russian spy -- who was killed in central London in November 2006. CNN's Nic Robertson looks at other suspicious deaths.

One of two people critically ill in a UK hospital after a "suspected exposure to an unknown substance" is a former Russian military official convicted of being a British spy, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN.

Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal has been left critically ill after being exposed to an 'unknown substance'. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh takes a look at the man behind the headlines.

Questions are swirling over how a Russian official turned British spy and his daughter ended up slumped over a shopping center bench in southern England on Sunday after "suspected exposure to an unknown substance," as police say.

Amy Wright, who employs 40 people with disabilities at her coffee shop Bitty & Beau's, was named the 2017 CNN Hero of the Year. She will receive $100,000 to grow her cause.

President Donald Trump hailed "possible progress" Tuesday in talks between North Korea and South Korea, hours after the US ally said that North Korea is willing to talk to the United States about giving up its nuclear program.

In the five years since his election, Pope Francis has become a byword for humility and compassion among American Catholics, a new survey has found. But conservative Catholics are increasingly concerned about his reforms and vision for the Catholic Church, according to the same survey.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told a high-ranking South Korean government delegation that he wants to "write a new history of national reunification," during an unprecedented meeting between the two sides in Pyongyang Monday.

North Korea says the United States "should not misjudge" its intention for dialogue the same day as President Donald Trump's brought up that Pyongyang had recently reached out about possible talks.