Adults—including parents, teachers and coaches—houting at, denigrating or verbally threatening children can be as damaging to their development as sexual or physical abuse, a new study finds.

Vibrant reefs filled with colorful fish and seaweed just two years ago have been turned into a wasteland of crushed corals in the South China Sea and the Philippines says it has identified a culprit -- China's shadowy maritime militia.

Russia, the United States and China have all built new facilities and dug new tunnels at their nuclear test sites in recent years, satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN show, at a time when tensions between the three major nuclear powers have risen to their highest in decades.

The iconic Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli, which created internationally beloved films including "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Spirited Away," has been sold to Nippon TV after failing to find a successor for its legendary co-founder and director Hayao Miyazaki.

A top university in northwest China has scrapped English tests as a prerequisite for graduation, rekindling a heated debate about the role of the world's lingua franca in the country's education system after years of rising nationalist sentiment under leader Xi Jinping.

The world must learn from the mistakes made after the war in Bosnia to avoid putting Ukrainian victims of rape and conflict-related sexual violence through decades of trauma, a new expert report has warned.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva put inequality and the climate crisis at the center of a speech Tuesday that opened the annual UN General Debate in New York, lamenting that the international community has "numbed" to its responsibility to care for the world's poor.

One person has died and eight people have been hospitalized after an outbreak of botulism in a restaurant in the French city of Bordeaux, according to a statement from France's public health body on Wednesday.

Extreme heat and flooding are set to deal a massive blow to the global fashion industry, with four of the world's top garment producing countries at risk of missing out on $65 billion in earnings by 2030, according to a study from Cornell University and investment manager Schroders.

Tim Burton has hit out at "disturbing" artificial intelligence (AI), comparing its use in imitating his distinctive style as "like a robot taking your humanity, your soul."

Damar Hamlin will not play in the Buffalo Bills' opening game of the NFL season in a Monday Night Football contest against the New York Jets after being placed on the inactive list.

A famed Russian conductor allowed climate protesters who disrupted a performance at a classical music festival in Switzerland to address the crowd, despite grumbling from some members of the audience.