By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Flavor Flav has been many things throughout his career: rapper, reality TV star, even restaurant owner. Now, the clock-wearing musician has found a new and unlikely calling in the sports world, offering his services as hype man for the US women’s water polo team ahead of this year’s Paris
Continue Reading By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — After eight months of grueling competition, 30 teams have been whittled down to just two. The Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks are the last teams standing and will face off in the 2024 NBA Finals, which begin at TD Garden on Thursday, for a chance to etch their
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By Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — Any doubts that Spain remains the fine dining center of the world may just have evaporated with the revealing of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants for 2024 list. Five eateries from the European nation made the list – three of them in the top five. The awards – considered the
Continue ReadingOpinion by Ashish Ravinran (CNN) — For one morning on June 9, 2024, the eyes of the cricketing world will fall on a public park on Long Island, New York. India and Pakistan will take on each other in the Men’s T20 World Cup. Don’t worry. Tickets are still available for a mere $2,500 to $10,000 (other matches start at $200). Just
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un hombre murió tras caer desde un acantilado de 604 metros de altura en Noruega que apareció en una película de “Misión Imposible”. Preikestolen, conocido en inglés como “Pulpit Rock”, es un acantilado del suroeste de Noruega que domina el fiordo Lysefjord. Es una de las rutas de montaña más
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — Este domingo concluye uno de los mayores ejercicios democráticos del mundo: unos 373 millones de personas de toda la Unión Europea pueden votar en las elecciones al próximo Parlamento Europeo. Entre el jueves y hoy, los votantes de los 27 países de la UE han acudido y acudirán a las urnas
Continue Reading By Stephy Chung, CNN (CNN) — Virginie Viard is exiting Chanel after five years serving as the French luxury house’s artistic director of fashion collections. The designer took on the position following Karl Lagerfeld’s death in 2019 after working alongside him at Chanel for decades. She held one of fashion’s most coveted and elite jobs
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) –La Administración Espacial Nacional de China (CNSA, por sus siglas en inglés) publicó este jueves una foto, tomada por la cámara de un robot autónomo, de su módulo de aterrizaje lunar Chang’e 6 en la cara oculta de la Luna, según los medios estatales. La foto fue tomada el 3 de junio
Continue ReadingBy EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Mount Ibu erupted three times on Thursday, spewing red lava and clouds of grey ash. No injuries were reported. The volcano, located on an island in the eastern North Maluku province, has been erupting almost every day since early May. Authorities have raised the alert
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By Yoonjung Seo, Jessie Yeung and Manveena Suri, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korean activists sent balloons carrying K-pop and K-dramas on USB sticks to their northern neighbor on Thursday, days after North Korean balloons of trash and “filth” floated in the opposite direction. The activist group Fighters for a Free North Korea
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CNN By Yoonjung Seo, Jessie Yeung and Manveena Suri, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korean activists sent balloons carrying K-pop and K-dramas on USB sticks to their northern neighbor on Thursday, days after North Korean balloons of trash and “filth” floated in the opposite direction. The activist group Fighters for a Free North
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press SOUTH HEBRON HILLS, West Bank (AP) — More than a dozen Israeli settlers — as well as two affiliated farms and four groups — have been targeted by international sanctions over accusations of attacks and harassment against Palestinians in the West Bank. The measures are meant as
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press KALTUNGO, Nigeria (AP) — The 9-month-old twins cried nonstop and tugged at their mother, seeking attention but also food. They had received little in the past 24 hours, and there were signs of deeper hunger in the heads too big for their tiny bodies. “Not much milk comes out,” said
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have unveiled a new, solid-fuel missile in their arsenal that resembles aspects of one earlier displayed by Iran that Tehran described as flying at hypersonic speeds. The rebels fired its new “Palestine” missile, complete with a warhead painted like a Palestinian
Continue Reading By Allegra Goodwin, Abeer Salman, Mohammad Al Sawalhi, and Rob Picheta, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Dozens of people were killed by an overnight Israeli airstrike on a United Nations-run school in central Gaza, authorities said, in an attack that CNN analysis found was conducted with a US-made weapon. The school, run by the UN agency for
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed Friday after a steady Thursday on Wall Street as markets anticipated the key U.S. jobs data that will be revealed later in the day. U.S. futures and oil prices rose. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 edged 0.1% lower to 38,661.04 after Friday data
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El expresidente de Estados Unidos Donald Trump sigue eludiendo las cuestiones sobre el acceso al aborto a las que se enfrentarán los estadounidenses si es elegido, la última relacionada con el caso del Tribunal Supremo de Estados Unidos que podría limitar el acceso al aborto con medicamentos. Trump prometió el
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Al menos cuatro personas murieron y más de 20 resultaron heridas en la colisión en la ciudad de Pardubice este miércoles por la noche, dijo la Policía a primera hora de este jueves. El accidente se produjo en la ciudad checa de Pardubice, según informó la AFP citando al portavoz de
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank cut its key interest rate by a quarter-point, moving ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve as central banks around the world lean toward lowering borrowing costs — a shift with far-reaching consequences for home buyers, savers and investors. The ECB cut
Continue ReadingBy CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New South Wales has become the last Australian state to apologize for laws criminalizing homosexual acts, 40 years after decriminalization. State Premier Chris Minns said he was sorry on behalf of the New South Wales government “for every life that was damaged or diminished or
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