Have you ever pressed the pedestrian button at a crosswalk and wondered if it really worked? Or bashed the "close door" button in an elevator, while suspecting that it may, in fact, have no

Written by Alicia Eler, CNN Alicia Eler is the author of "The Selfie Generation: How Our Self-Images Are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent, and Culture," and the visual art critic at the

(CNN)What used to be an "extraordinarily rare occurrence" has already happened twice this month -- the death of a child in the custody of US border officials.Now the head of Customs and Border Protection

(CNN)Fifty-seven years later, Gabriel Bach still pauses to compose himself when he tells the story of the girl in the red coat. Bach took time to speak with me last week about his experience

(CNN)Abbas Edalat, a British-Iranian professor who was arrested and detained in Iran for eight months, has returned to the UK, according to British authorities."We can confirm that a British-Iranian dual national who was detained

(CNN)Three people were killed and 13 others wounded when a car bomb exploded in an outdoor market in the city of Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq on Tuesday, according to Iraqi military Brig. Gen.

New York (CNN Business)Wall Street, markets and business crave certainty. For the past month, they have been contending with confusion and disorder. Uncertainty abounds at the end of a volatile year: Investors question the

London (CNN Business)Global markets are having a rough 2018. What's worse, there's little relief in sight. From Shanghai to Tokyo, and Frankfurt to Milan, some of the world's biggest stock indices are in bear

Hong Kong (CNN Business)The recent turbulence in US stock markets pales in comparison with China's dismal 2018.While the Dow and other major US indexes have plunged in recent weeks, the sell-off in China started

(CNN)Bapu Suwarna had just wrapped up a work meeting at a hotel in Indonesia's Banten province when he heard a sound like thunder and saw people running and screaming, "Tsunami! Waves! Waves!" He'd soon