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Britain's Prince William is dedicating $65 million to create a new environmental award, in an effort to inspire solutions to some of the Earth's most pressing challenges.

McDonald's US sales finally started to rise in the third quarter after months of negative numbers.

More than 2,300 people were evacuated from villages in the Russian region of Ryazan after a wildfire set off explosions at an ammunition depot, Russian state media reported Wednesday, citing the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Green bonds may have a starring role in the recovery from the coronavirus recession.

British Airway retired the last of its huge Boeing 747 airplanes on Thursday when the final two planes still in service departed from London Heathrow -- a poignant event brought upon by the coronavirus pandemic.

World No.1 Novak Djokovic is into the French Open semifinals for the 10th time in his career, but his body didn't make it easy for him.

A top North Korean diplomat who went missing in Italy two years ago is now living in South Korea, making him one of the regime's most high profile officials to defect in decades.

In the latest issue of Architectural Digest (AD) Danish architect Bjarke Ingels recalled that while on a video conference in his his family home -- which just happens to be a 450-ton ferry docked in Copenhagen -- the caller asked if he was on a spaceship.

CNN senior Washington correspondent Joe Johns was interrupted by a raccoon during an early morning live shot. Jeanne Moos reports on the raccoon invasion of the White House lawn.

The UK, France and Germany are planning to impose targeted sanctions on Russia, after an international chemical weapons watchdog confirmed that Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.

A woman being held in her Midway, Utah, home was rescued Friday after she wrote "911" on her hand to signal that she needed help.

A suspected toxic spill along a beach on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula has killed 95% of marine life on the surrounding seabed, local scientists have said, following a weeks-long campaign to investigate the mysterious incident.

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As a month-long schedule of both digital and physical shows across four major capitals comes to a close in Paris today, the mood in the fashion world is difficult to gauge. On the one hand, a number of designers have shown that against all odds beauty and creativity can thrive even in the most challenging of contexts. On the other, the industry's role -- at least as it is now -- in a world that seems defined by political conflict, and health and climate-related uncertainty -- is unclear.

On the beach, once-gleaming vessels lie dilapidated, their innards exposed, barely recognizable from their seafaring glory days.

Double Olympic gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin chats to CNN about Covid-19 and the unexpected and tragic loss of her father earlier this year.

Australia's most iconic beach is considering a plan that may result in partial privatization.