Prisons in developing countries can usually be characterized as hazardous and chaotic places for offenders. Due to limited resources, the prisons are left to be run by ruthless gangs.

French photographer Raphael Olivier is constantly in search of arresting visual stories -- and travels far to see them in person.

It's okay for a boy to have feelings for another boy. In fact, it's natural, says India's Health Ministry.

Hong Kong is returning nine armored troop carriers to Singapore that have been impounded since November, when they were seized by customs officials on the way back from training exercises in Taiwan.

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When it comes to desirable post-pandemic travel destinations, Hong Kong would be an obvious choice thanks to its capable handling of Covid-19 outbreaks, which has so far limited infections to just 1,300 cases in the city of 7.5 million.

Shanghai residents passing through the city's eastern Huangpu district in October might have stumbled upon an unusual sight: a "walking" building.

Teenage recruits were raped by staff and forced to rape each other as part of initiation practices in the Australian military going back to 1960, a public inquiry heard on Tuesday.

At 3.30 p.m. on Wednesday, a phone rang in a room in an uninhabited village in the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea.

Robert Chan lit his first cigarette aged 18. He quickly became hooked, smoking 15 a day for more than a decade.

A Chinese-born alleged drug kingpin accused of presiding over a multi-billion dollar narcotics operation has been arrested by Dutch authorities.

As China rapidly builds new artificial islands in the South China Sea to expand its territory claim there, Washington is adamantly refusing to recognize those claims.

There's no shortage of reasons to fall in love with Japan.

A disturbing video of a woman riding her scooter over the legs of a six-year-old girl has caused outrage in China.

Major crimes usually shake us into action. A London fire that killed five women ultimately led to the creation of 999, a precursor to our own 911 emergency system. The rape and murder of Kitty Genovese in broad daylight, meanwhile, inspired the creation of the neighborhood crime watch system. Yet wh...

CNN's Tom Foreman explains how searchers are scanning the ocean for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501.

Millions of Chinese high schoolers will sit the country's grueling two-day college entrance examination, known as the gaokao, this week.