On U.S. Election Day, traffic to the international edition of CNN.com increased 789 percent on Wednesday November 5 as compared to the same day the previous week. (Wednesday October 29) with live video streams on CNN.com Live, the Internet's only multi-stream, live video news service skyrocketing 2750 percent.

CNN.com delivered the largest daily audience in its history with 30 million unique visitors on U.S. Election Day, more than doubling the previous record of 13.4 million generated on Super Tuesday of this year.

CNN was the most-watched network on U.S. television from 8-12:30a on Election Night with 13.3 million total viewers, ABC followed with 12.5 million, NBC had 11.9 million, Telemundo had 8.5 million, FNC posted 8.1 million, CBS averaged 7.5 million, MSBNC had 6.4 million and FOX posted 4.7 million.

As momentum builds towards the climax of the biggest event in the 2008 world political calendar, CNN International is putting viewer comment at the centre of its U.S presidential election coverage with its ‘World View' initiative.

As part of CNN's international newsgathering expansion and content ownership strategy, the network today announced the opening of its third editorial operation in Mumbai, India, as well as the appointment of Mallika Kapur, currently a London-based reporter, as the network's Mumbai-based international correspondent effective immediately.

CNN International today announces the launch of CNNMobile.com, its most comprehensive mobile news site to-date across 49 countries and territories in Asia Pacific.  It rounds out CNN's 360 degree mobile solution offering, integrating live streaming mobile TV, video on demand content, and SMS breaking news alert services.  Available direct to consumers free of charge*, it is custom designed to guarantee user-friendly navigation and interaction ensuring that the network's award-winning content can be assessed in a matter of seconds.