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Theresa May becomes U.K. prime minister on Wednesday, taking the reins of government at the most turbulent time in the country's postwar history.

When Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni stopped to make a call in Kyeirumba Village, Uganda, he had no idea he was about to go viral.

A 16-year-old male dancer is determined to prove that South Africa can produce global ballet stars. Leroy Mokgatle is breaking stereotypes of what a ballet star is supposed to look like. The non-muscular, slight-framed South African was told he was "too short" to be a male principal dancer.

What awaits Britain's new prime minister Theresa May?

How quickly things change. Three weeks ago, David Cameron was the leader of one of the world's most powerful countries -- then Brexit happened, the moving vans rolled up to 10 Downing Street, and by Wednesday evening he will be just be just another member of Parliament.

The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD) is designed to shoot down short, medium and intermediate ballistic missiles, just the type of weapons North Korea claims it has.

Human traffickers get to know children's vulnerabilities in order to become the person that the child wants in their life. Once trust is gained, exploitation begins.

Two passenger trains collided head-on in a rural area of southeastern Italy late Tuesday morning, killing at least 20 people, a provincial official said, and prompting authorities to ask for blood donations for an unspecified number of injured.

South Korea has announced the deployment of an advanced anti-missile system in Seongju county in the country's south.

Could an old map bring Asia to the brink of war?

The Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague has issued a scathing legal rebuke of China's maritime claims in the South China Sea. This stunning decision pits the international legal order against the power of a rising China, with significant ramifications for both the international legal system and for the geopolitics of Southeast Asia. Whether law can constrain power now turns on how China, the United States and other countries in the region use the new decision.

When revolution comes, statues find themselves on the front line. And like pawns on a chessboard, they're often the first to fall.

CNN's Jim Sciutto explains the geopolitical conflict in the South China Sea.

CNN's Jim Sciutto explains the geopolitical conflict in the South China Sea.

An international tribunal in the Hague ruled in favor of the Philippines Tuesday, concluding that there was no legal basis for China to claim historic rights to resources within South China Sea areas falling within the '"nine-dash line."

At a time when most OPEC countries are ramping up oil output, Venezuela produced just 2.15 million barrels of crude oil per day in June, according to S&P Global Platts estimates. That's the weakest pace since February 2003, Platts said.

As the Russia-NATO Council gets ready to meet Wednesday in Brussels for only the second time in two years, many are pessimistic over the possibility of real progress as tensions between the two entities have been rising in recent days.

The four-star commander of the U.S. Central Command got an unexpected, up close and personal look Monday at the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy when a U.S. Navy warship he was on was approached by five armed Iranian craft in the Arabian Gulf.

Almost 70 years after it was created, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is faced with a growing challenge, one that loomed large over the group's summit meeting last week: Russia's increasing assertiveness and military power.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries produced nearly 32.9 million barrels of oil a day in June, according to its monthly statistical bulletin.