Canada has warned its citizens of the risk of "arbitrary enforcement" of local laws in China after a Canadian man convicted of drug trafficking was suddenly retried and sentenced to death, and Beijing denied

Nearly 80 percent of junior doctors across New Zealand have walked off work at public hospitals, after a breakdown in union talks with the government over working conditions and wages. The strike on Tuesday

Bekaa Valley, Lebanon - Syrian refugees in Lebanon are struggling with the aftermath of a storm that drenched the country's eastern and northern regions, delivered floodwaters and damaged hundreds of makeshift camps. Storm Norma, which last week

Tehran, Iran - Monir Farmanfarmaian, the grand dame of Tehran's vibrant art scene, has set a new record for a local female artist after an untitled mirror mosaic of hers fetched almost $1m at

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, have discussed the situation in northern Syria over the phone amid rising tensions over the fate of Kurdish fighters in the war-torn country. The

(CNN)A Milwaukee bus driver went above the call of duty when she stopped to save an unlikely would-be passenger: a toddler.Irena Ivic was driving on a freeway overpass when she spotted a barefoot toddler,

(CNN)Dramatic footage of a helicopter partially landing on a mountain side shows the incredible moment a skier was rescued from the French Alps. The adrenaline-inducing video, posted on Facebook by Nicolas Derely, documents the

(CNN) — The spectacular Azure Window rock arch on Malta's island of Gozo was once a Mediterranean must-see sunset spot that formed the backdrop to scenes in "Game of Thrones." Now an innovative new

Written by Oscar Holland, CNN Before the arrival of photography, the Western imagination of China was based on paintings, written travelogues and dispatches from a seemingly far-off land. From the 1850s, however, a band

Simon Stålenhag's paintings are a strange, irresistible mix of mundane scenes from the Swedish countryside and haunting scenarios involving abandoned robots, mysterious machinery and even dinosaurs. They are the product of his childhood memories