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During the Cold War, this plane could fly higher and faster than any other -- and 55 years after its first flight, it still does.

Hong Kong is launching a new Nasdaq-like technology index. It's a sign that the Asian financial hub, caught in a battle for its future between East and West — is prepared to embrace its role as a gateway for China's tech industry to the world.

China's massive box office began to reopen on Monday after the coronavirus pandemic spurred a shutdown lasting roughly six months.

A "wartime" state has been declared in the capital of Xinjiang, home to China's persecuted Muslim-majority Uyghur ethnic group, as authorities implement strict and sweeping measures to stem a spike in coronavirus cases.

When the Netherlands introduced lockdown measures in mid-March, Amsterdam's Red Light District transformed into a ghost town overnight. Coronavirus dealt a devastating blow to the Dutch capital's notorious window brothels and left over 300 legally operating sex workers without an income for almost four months.

Malaysia has discovered 110 containers of illegally dumped toxic waste in what authorities are calling "the biggest finding of its kind" in the country's history, according to state media Bernama.

In just three years since its launch outside of China, TikTok's popularity has skyrocketed.

The United Arab Emirates successfully launched its Mars-bound Hope Probe on Sunday, marking the the Arab world's first interplanetary mission -- and the first of three international missions to the Red Planet this summer.

A hospital in Brooklyn received a special delivery this week during the coronavirus pandemic: A truckload of 1,800 paintings, one for every employee, each representing a flower.

They are the two nations that can't seem to bend the Covid-19 curve to save their own lives: the US and Brazil.

Residents of Wuhan, China stayed indoors last week not because of another lockdown posed by a reemerging coronavirus threat, but because the worst flooding in decades has threatened their city.

To the upbeat sounds of a blue-uniformed brass band, the rally proceeded through downtown Hong Kong.

Four California high school students are helping children color their way through the coronavirus pandemic.

An arson investigation has been launched into a fire that broke out in a cathedral in the western French city of Nantes. CNN's Jim Bittermann reports.

A man nicknamed "Black Forest Rambo" has been arrested in Germany's southwest Black Forest region after five days on the run, Baten-Wurttemberg police said Friday.

When Mandy Stewart established the Love Your Neighbor Ministries just over a month ago, she made sure that her mission was right in the name.

When the UK announced its U-turn on allowing the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei to play a part in the country's 5G network, it signaled an end to the so-called "golden era" of UK-China relations. To the delight of US President Donald Trump, the UK would seemingly no longer equivocate on its national security in order to balance its relationship with China -- and would instead adopt something closer to a US-style hard line.

Nelson Mandela was loved and admired the world over -- profiled in books and movies and showered with awards and accolades. But even the most public of personalities have little-known facts buried in their biographies.