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Farmers in Ukraine are storing away their grain as ports remain closed to shipping. The farmers foresee staffing shortages and slower grain production next year amid the uncertainty. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.

Nestlé hiked its prices by 6.5% in the first half of 2022 as it grapples with an "unprecedented" rise in costs.

On August 9, Kenyans head to the polls and with soaring food and fuel prices, high unemployment and post-pandemic stagnation, a change in leadership could not come at a more critical time for East Africa's largest economy.

Several shark bite injuries and a spate of sightings of the marine predators off the Northeast coast of the United States have rattled summer beachgoers.

Scores of attackers were killed in Mali on Wednesday, after the country's military pushed back on three separate "terrorist attacks" on towns and military outposts that left at least a dozen Malian soldiers and three civilians dead, Mali's armed forces said Wednesday.

James Lovelock, the British environmental scientist and creator of the Gaia theory, which hypothesizes Earth acts as a single living organism, has died at the age of 103.

Nicaraguan opposition leader Yubrank Suazo, who participated in protests against the government of President Daniel Ortega in 2018, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH) said Wednesday.

In simulated scenes, a hostile enemy attempts to seize control of a key waterway close to the Taiwanese capital. Attacking from sea and air, the invading forces target the mouth of the Tamsui River on the island's northern coast -- a strategic estuary that provides direct access to the center of Taipei.

No one can afford to look weak.

Food prices have been rising around the world, driven first by the Covid pandemic and poor harvests, and made worse by the conflict in Ukraine, which has hit exports of both wheat and fertilizer.

The vast majority of cases in the growing monkeypox outbreak are among men who have sex with men, according to the World Health Organization. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus advised members of this community Wednesday to limit their exposure to the virus by reducing their number of sex partners and reconsidering sex with new partners.

The first samples from Mars, collected by the Perseverance rover, will be returned to Earth in 2033. The Mars Sample Return missions now also include two helicopters similar to Ingenuity.

Despite growing pleas from climate change activists, the Democratic Republic of Congo says it is moving forward with its plans to auction off a vast majority of oil and gas drilling blocks located in the country's rainforest and peatland.

Hundreds of angry protesters loyal to the powerful nationalist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr broke into Baghdad's heavily protected Green Zone on Wednesday, denouncing the nomination of a new prime minister.

Sprite is retiring its green plastic bottles after more than 60 years.

Astronomers have spied the heaviest neutron star to date 3,000 light-years away from Earth. The "black widow," a dense, collapsed star that's devouring its stellar companion, also spins 707 times per second, which also makes it one of the fastest spinning neutron stars.

When bombshell "Baywatch"-era one-pieces and teeny bikinis reigned in the 1990s, relief for many women came in the form of the tankini -- a tank-top silhouette that offered more coverage than most two-pieces, but could still be modest, sporty or sexy. It was one of the few innovations at a time when women's swim styles only catered to few body types and style preferences -- and even got the stamp of approval on Sports Illustrated's 1990 Swimsuit Issue cover.

South Korea's second biggest conglomerate is investing $22 billion into the United States, in high-priority areas including chips and clean energy.

Startup ByFusion's machine uses steam and compression to create standard building blocks from virtually all types of plastic waste. The company hopes its machines will provide solutions to both infrastructure and the environmental effects of non-recyclable plastics.

More than 1,000 Lufthansa flights have been canceled and more than 130,000 passengers have been impacted by a nationwide strike by its ground staff, according to the airline. CNN's Frederick Pleitgen reports.