World

Fireworks burst into the sky over the May 1 stadium in the North Korean capital, while enormous signs proclaimed that the two countries were "true and reliable comrades.""Long live the unbreakable friendship and union between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Chinese people," one banner...

Hundreds of mostly young people surrounded police headquarters in the city's Wan Chai district Friday, after blocking several roads in the area and near government offices in Admiralty, where they had been staging a sit-in demanding the city's chief executive, Carrie Lam, resign and officially withdraw the bill....

The men were convicted of sexual abuse, the court said, but cleared of gang rape charges in December 2018 for their attack on a teenage girl, which happened at the 2016 running of the bulls in Pamplona.Prosecutors had called on the Supreme Court to upgrade their conviction, in...

Editor's Note — Editor's Note — CNN Travel's series often carry sponsorship originating from the countries and regions we profile. However, CNN retains full editorial control over all of its reports. Read the policy.(CNN) — "This fire has burned 4,000 years and never stopped," says Aliyeva Rahila. "Even...

(CNN) — The longest passenger jetliner in the world made its debut this spring -- but we won't see the Boeing 777X take to the skies until the end of the year. The jetliner uses GE Aviation's new GE9X engine, the world's largest commercial jet engine, which was...

(CNN) — With drums and with flower garlands, with wizard hats and with warm coats, up to 10,000 celebrants are expected to converge on England's Stonehenge to observe the summer solstice. When this 4,500-year-old Neolithic monument opens to the public at 7 p.m. on June 20, the gathered...

Rishikesh (CNN) — For better or worse, the holy city of Rishikesh, which rests on the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India, will always be associated with the Beatles and their sojourn to study transcendental meditation in 1968. Rishikesh is also the self-styled "yoga capital of the...

A company executive announced the milestone at the Shanghai Film Festival this week. A ByteDance spokeswoman confirmed his remarks to CNN Business on Thursday, saying the billion mark was crossed earlier this year. ByteDance has more than a dozen apps including news aggregator Jinri Toutiao, trending video platform...

Shenzhen-based Huawei has just been ranked the country's most attractive employer, beating out rivals such as Alibaba (BABA) and Tencent (TCEHY), according to a new survey of more than 50,000 Chinese students by research firm Universum.Huawei was voted the top choice among engineering students for the second year...

Industry insiders are forecasting that global cannabis sales could total $14.9 billion in 2019, up 36% from 2018, according to a new report released Thursday.For the first time, the annual "The State of Legal Cannabis Markets" report evaluated the cannabis industry as the "Total Cannabinoid Market," meaning it...