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Qatar's new rail network is fast, driverless, has a "Gold" class for premium passengers, and it's one of the most advanced metro train systems ever built.

Meditation has been practiced for thousands of years in many cultures to nurture calmness and inner peace. But what does science say about it, and how can we fit it into our busy, modern lives? CNN speaks to a psychologist about what it does to our brains and how we can do it better.

CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports on how rising sea levels are impacting one coastal town in Senegal.

Photographer Scott Fairchild captured the moment a great white shark swam past two surfers in the waters near San Diego, CA.

It's a sunny afternoon in Moravia, and people are busy weeding the communal gardens on top of El Morro de Moravia (Moravia Hill), which sits at the heart of this working-class Medellín neighborhood.

Passengers flying into Rome from 2024 onwards will be able to go airborne for their taxi ride into the city center too, if a project between the company operating its main airport and a German startup lifts off on schedule.

At the lagoon in KwaZulu-Natal, eastern South Africa, nightfall covers the Zimanga Private Game Reserve in a dark blanket. The only light comes from a new moon, slowly drifting across the cloudless winter sky, which paints the perfect backdrop for what lies in wait. Mixed in with nature's soundtrack is a beeping alarm, which sets off a quiet rush for photographers to get in position -- ready for something to happen in an instant.

New Zealand on Thursday said it would begin easing Covid-19 restrictions that have been in place on its national borders since March 2020.

A close-up of a gull's eye is the overall winner of this year's British Ecological Society photography competition, the organizers have announced.

A coast-to-coast flight was diverted to Denver on Wednesday night after a passenger "physically assaulted a flight attendant," American Airlines said in a statement.

When Sallie Kuria moved from Kenya to Germany in 2010, she met Klaus Müller, who worked in an airplane hangar. The day Klaus took Sallie flying marked the beginning of their love story.

"He has pulled a hand-grenade pin and he is ready to blow up the aircraft if he has to. We must, I repeat, we must land at Beirut."

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added just one new location to its list of "very high" risk travel destinations this week.

A cyclist lived to tell his tale after a bear attacked him while riding alone in Cantwell, Alaska.

It was the saga of Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark, or in this case Harrison Ford and the lost credit card.

It's a fact every school child knows: Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world.

Clover Moore, the lord mayor of Sydney, has presented an ambitious plan that imagines the city's legendary harbor as a swimming pool.

The streets of Madrid were filled with sheep and the clanking of bells on Sunday as shepherds guided their flocks through the heart of the Spanish capital, following ancient seasonal herding routes.

There's no denying that going on vacation has become a lot more complicated due to Covid-19.

It would've been unthinkable 12 months ago as the cruise industry reeled from the effects of Covid, but one operator is now offering an epic new voyage that will last nine months and take travelers to more than 150 destinations.