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In September, Timnit Gebru, then co-leader of the ethical AI team at Google, sent a private message on Twitter to Emily Bender, a computational linguistics professor at the University of Washington.

Kenichi Kurosawa clung precariously to a tree as the water rose around him, entirely flooding the roads below.

In March 2020, companies across the US abruptly shuttered their offices and instructed employees to work from home indefinitely as a result of the pandemic.

Desperate to save their economies from complete collapse, governments borrowed unprecedented amounts of money on the cheap to support workers and businesses during the pandemic. Now, with recovery in sight, a big risk looms: interest payments.

When my plane finally touched down in Sydney, I was overwhelmed by a sense of disbelief.

After summiting the stoner comedy genre with movies like "Pineapple Express" and "This is the End," actor Seth Rogen and screenwriter-director Evan Goldberg have set their sights on the US cannabis market.

A devastating independent report accusing China of across-the-board genocide in Xinjiang leaves the rest of the world with two questions: What to do, and will it make any difference?

A retired Canadian teacher is giving some of his former students a look back at their childhoods by returning long-forgotten diaries they wrote decades ago in his class.

France will speed up the declassification of secret defense archives, including those related to its war with Algeria, as it continues to grapple with its colonial history. France colonized Algeria from 1830 until its independence in 1962 following a seven-year war.

Former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday launched a stinging attack against President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of Covid-19, days after a judge cleared the way for his political comeback.

A Saudi court has rejected an appeal by prominent women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul that would have allowed her to travel freely, her family and supporters said.

Russia moved to slow down the speed of Twitter on Wednesday after the social media company failed to remove what the country's media watchdog described as prohibited or harmful content.

All visitors to Thailand must currently spend 14 days in quarantine on arrival, but now they can choose a more luxurious way to wait it out -- by staying onboard a yacht.

When graphic designer Mike Winkelmann started producing a drawing a day in 2007, he was simply looking for a way to improve his art skills. At best, the resulting "Everydays" project would help him promote his freelance work, which includes creating concert visuals for the likes of Justin Bieber and Katy Perry. But selling the digital images was not on his mind.

Dubai is a desert phenomenon. In the space of 50 years, it has grown from a small trading outpost into one of the planet's most iconic cities.

China's latest 5-year master plan gives insight on how Chinese authorities plan to strengthen its high-tech might. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout explains.

Throughout Myanmar's month-long demonstrations against the resumption of military rule, artists have helped shape how the protests are expressed visually, from moving illustrations of demonstrators who have died, to huge murals, roadside artworks and satirical protest signs mocking coup leader General Min Aung Hlaing.

Jeff Wasserstrom is a self-proclaimed China specialist who is seriously considering never returning to China -- at least, he says, not while President Xi Jinping is in power.