CNN's Hala Gorani looks at how the Sydney hostage crisis unfolded and the dramatic police action that ended it.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's latest charm offensive with China has generated decidedly mixed reviews.

Around 100 demonstrators sit in the road, saying they're ready to be arrested, as bailiffs armed with court orders clear Hong Kong's main pro-democracy protest site.

The report into the CIA's brutal interrogation tactics against detainees captured after the September 11, 2001, attacks is drawing mostly criticism from around the world.

The New South Wales Bar Association has confirmed Katina Dawson is one of the victims of the Sydney hostage crisis.

At the height of his power, Zhou Yongkang controlled police forces, spy agencies, court systems and prosecution offices across China -- and the domestic security czar wasn't shy in deploying his vast assets to crush dissent and unrest in the name of "preserving social stability."

John Sutter confesses he can't resist the convenience of using Uber even as he worries about the company's way of doing business

The deadly storm that battered the Philippines for days weakened as it rumbled from one island to another, passing close to Manila.

The world seems to be going crazy for Pokémon GO.

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A 29-year-old U.S. citizen denounces his home country at a press conference in Pyongyang after entering the country illegally. His mother says he's mentally unstable.

To thunderous and sustained applause, Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai and India's Kailash Satyarthi received the Nobel Peace Prize on Wednesday.

A suicide bomber detonated explosives Thursday inside a French-funded school in Kabul during a play that condemns suicide attacks, leading to deaths and numerous injuries, the French foreign minister said.