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Saudi Arabia welcomes over 2 million people to Mecca every year for the Hajj pilgrimage. New train networks are making getting around easier.

Residents in Taiwan and Japan are bracing for Typhoon Lekima, which could become a super typhoon by the time it hits a Japanese island chain on Friday.

One of Hollywood's best-known villains, Danny Trejo, came to the rescue of a baby that was trapped in an overturned vehicle in Los Angeles.

The nation watched with horror last November as wildfire in northern California ravaged the town of Paradise and surrounding communities.

An artisan vodka will be produced with grain and water from Chernobyl's exclusion zone. Its creators insist it is safe to drink.

Fans gathered on Abbey Road on Thursday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' iconic cover shoot, CNN's Simon Cullen reports.

Venice is to start rerouting cruise ships away from its historic center, in a victory for residents tired of the enormous vessels towering over the city's skyline.

Bahaa, a 33-year-old Syrian textile worker, has a new morning commute.

As Sweden's population ages, the country faces a challenge: how can it maintain support for its citizens without breaking the bank?

Hannah Kennedy wakes up in the morning, turns to Alexa — a smart speaker — and asks, "What's the weather like today? What are the traffic conditions?"

Warnings are sounding in global financial markets, punctuated by a cascade of selling in everything from stocks and crude oil to metals like iron ore.

The gleaming white bullet train whips through the Chinese countryside, past endless construction sites and new towns.

Asian markets broadly rose Thursday as investors digested several signs that policymakers across the region are taking steps to protect their economies from slowing global growth.

It has become a war of attrition. Ahead of the tenth consecutive weekend of protests in Hong Kong, neither the government nor demonstrators are giving an inch of ground.

If your friends and allies won't tell you what they really think, check their travel advisories.

British scientist Natalie Christopher went missing after going for a jog during her vacation on the Greek island of Ikaria.

Pakistan's military has condemned India's move to strip Indian-controlled Kashmir of its special status, and will "go to any extent" to fight the change, the country's chief of army staff said Tuesday.

Nothing reflects the lasting potency of the iconic "Tank Man" photo quite like the dogged attempts to censor it on China's internet. Practically any image that so much as gestures at the famed photograph of a man in front of a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square risks deletion from the country's closely monitored web; recreations showing a line of books approaching a cigarette package, a swan before an oncoming truck and a grasshopper in front of a tire have all been removed.