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It was August 2011 and Natasha Fisher was 17 and traveling from her home in England to the United States for the first time, desperate to spend a summer in New York living out a fantasy she'd only ever seen in TV and film.

China's escalating crackdown on the country's once-mighty technology sector shows no signs of abating, leaving investors to wonder: Where does the market rout end?

A new bridge that will link Russia and China's railway systems was completed on August 17, 2021, seven years after its much-heralded groundbreaking.

With the Taliban in control of several access points to Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport, residents desperate to flee Afghanistan have overwhelmed the airport's north gate. Stun grenades light up the night and US troops have had to forcefully repel the gathering crowds. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.

More than just a spicy staple served in Korean households and restaurants around the world, kimchi -- the iconic fermented vegetable dish -- has once again become the subject of a cultural feud between China and South Korea.

Grace plowed through the Yucatan Peninsula on Thursday and weakened to a tropical storm but is expected to regain hurricane strength as it approaches the Gulf coast of Mexico, said the National Hurricane Center.

It's been a month since England dropped most of its coronavirus restrictions, a move that was welcomed by much of the country's hard-pressed business sector but criticized by thousands of scientists as a "dangerous and unethical experiment."

Hospitals in Haiti are completely overwhelmed by survivors of Saturday's 7.2-magnitude earthquake and urgently need help to treat them, medical staff say.

China's crackdown on private business has taken a new, more intrusive turn with government plans to dictate how live-stream shopping influencers speak and dress.

In almost 40 years with Tata Consultancy Services, N. Ganapathy Subramaniam and his team hardly ever worked remotely.

A Singapore court sentenced a British man to six weeks in prison on Wednesday, local media reported, after he repeatedly breached coronavirus protocols by refusing to wear a face mask in public.

Extradition hearings for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou have concluded more than two years after she was arrested in Vancouver, Canada.

Tropical Storm Grace is barreling toward Mexico Wednesday, threatening to bring with it hurricane-force winds, life-threatening rip tides and up to half a foot of rain.

"Your skin's a bit dry," one user commented on a video posted by Angie, a popular influencer who first appeared on Chinese social media last fall. "You should apply a face mask."

Archaeologists in Pompeii have discovered an extremely well-preserved skeleton of a man who lived just decades before Pompeii was destroyed.

Tencent reported a 29% rise in second-quarter profit, even as Beijing expands its scrutiny of the private sector.

The 2021 Japanese Formula One Grand Prix has been canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic for the second successive year, race organizers said on Wednesday.

When British traveler Zoe Stephens flew into the South Pacific island nation of Tonga last March, she was only planning to stay for the weekend.

The JD Malat Gallery in London's Mayfair is everything you'd expect an exclusive art space to be. The premises are immaculate and highly ordered, the owner and staff even more so.