LONDON (AP) — Sony’s PlayStation Network is down, frustrating gamers around the world who complain they weren’t able to sign in to their accounts. PlayStation Network said on its website that “some services are experiencing issues” and that players “might have difficulty” logging in, creating accounts, launching games or getting video content. Playstation said it’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press GENEVA (AP) — The scientific center that is home to the world’s largest particle accelerator and is billed as the world’s biggest machine is celebrating its 70th anniversary. Over the last seven decades, CERN, the sprawling research center on the Swiss-French border at Geneva, has become a household name in Europe, the West
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Dozens of Tibetans living in India protested outside China’s embassy against the human rights situation in their homeland, which China annexed in 1951. Police blocked the protesters from entering the embassy and detained some after chasing them and wrestling them to the ground. The protest came as China marks its 75th
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By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Week 4 of the NFL season came to a close on Monday night with another double-header, with one encounter between teams flying high and the other between two looking to kickstart their seasons in earnest. Sunday’s action was filled with dramatic finishes, outstanding individual performances and shock results, and
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation in the 20 countries that use the euro fell to 1.8% in September, below the European Central Bank’s target of 2% for the first time in more than three years. Tuesday’s official figure coupled with an anemic growth outlook could pave the way for faster interest rate
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By Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden offered a 100th birthday greeting to former President Jimmy Carter, celebrating a predecessor he said he admires “so darn much.” Calling the former president a “moral force for our nation and the world,” Biden heralded Carter as “a voice of courage, conviction, compassion, and most of
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — AI hasn’t quite delivered the job-killing, cancer-curing utopia that the technology’s evangelists are peddling. So far, artificial intelligence has proven more capable of generating stock market enthusiasm than, like, tangibly great things for humanity. Unless you count Shrimp Jesus. But that’s all going to change, the
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TODAY: A cold front is actively moving through the region as I type this early Tuesday morning. This front will leave us dry and cool, with highs forecast near 70. Very low humidity settles into the region via a north breeze that may gust to 20-30 mph at times. TONIGHT: Clear and calm conditions settle
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — El líder de China, Xi Jinping, reiteró su promesa de lograr la “reunificación” con Taiwán en la víspera del 75° aniversario de la China comunista, mientras Beijing desplegaba su poderío militar en vísperas de la fiesta nacional. En un banquete de Estado para celebrar la fundación de la República Popular este
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An apparent Russian artillery strike has hit a market in the southern Ukraine city of Kherson, killing at least six people and wounding three others. Authorities say the strike happened Tuesday when Ukrainians across the country were observing a minute’s silence for their military and war dead. The regional
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By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has made his first public remarks since his release after he struck a deal with the United States, saying he is free because he pleaded “guilty to journalism.” The 53-year-old on Tuesday traveled to the French city of Strasbourg to appear before the Parliamentary Assembly
Continue Reading By Eric Cheung and Robert Shackelford, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — Taiwan has put its military units on standby and closed schools and offices across several counties on Tuesday, as the island braces for a powerful typhoon set to make landfall in the next couple days, after bashing the Philippines. Super Typhoon Krathon, equivalent to
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — El fundador de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, hizo sus primeras declaraciones públicas desde su liberación tras llegar a un acuerdo con Estados Unidos, afirmando que está libre porque se declaró “culpable de periodismo”. Assange, de 53 años, viajó este martes a la ciudad francesa de Estrasburgo para comparecer ante la Asamblea Parlamentaria
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — A bus carrying young students with their teachers caught fire in suburban Bangkok on Tuesday, with more than 20 of those on board feared dead, officials and rescuers said. The bus was carrying 44 passengers from central Uthai Thani province for a school trip in Ayutthaya and Nonthaburi provinces, Transport Minister Suriya
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Baseball lost a legend on Monday — one with a tarnished reputation.
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Part of the border between Italy and Switzerland is set to be redrawn as the glaciers that mark the boundary melt, in yet another sign of how much humans are changing the world by burning planet-heating fossil fuels.. The two countries have agreed to change the border under the
Continue Reading By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Up and down the United Kingdom, parents have been packing their cars with bedding, crockery and much more as they hold back the tears and drive their children to university. But the usual concerns about how they will fend for themselves have taken on an added dimension for some.
Continue Reading By Helen Regan and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Israel has launched a ground operation across its northern border into Lebanon targeting the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, opening a new and dangerous phase in almost a year of war. The incursion, which Israel’s National Security Cabinet has called the “next phase” of its war with Hezbollah,
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — El precio de una experiencia más tranquila al pasar por los aeropuertos estadounidenses acaba de subir un 20%. El Servicio de Aduanas y Protección de Fronteras de EE.UU. (CBP, por sus siglas en inglés) aumentó de US$ 100 a 120 el costo para solicitar o renovar sus Programas de Viajero de
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HONG KONG (AP) — World shares were mixed on Tuesday, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 index regaining some of its sharp losses from a day earlier. In early European trading, France’s CAC 40 slipped 0.3% to 7,614.13, and Germany’s DAX added 0.4% to 19,395.93. In London, the FTSE 100 gained 0.3% to 8,261.83. Investors
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