CNN-Other

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN The UK government’s Home Office has admitted for the first time to forcibly deporting Chinese sailors who served in the nation’s merchant Navy during World War II, in the latest stain on the country’s migration department. A 22-page Home Office investigation into the deportations shared with CNN describes how some

Rob North and Livvy Doherty, CNN In the latest moves aimed at curbing air travel chaos, Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has extended its summer passenger cap and British Airways has suspended short-haul ticket sales from London’s Heathrow Airport. Schiphol Airport announced Tuesday it will be continuing its passenger cap through September and October. The maximum number

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Basically everyone else is doing it, so you’d think it would be tempting for Tito’s Handmade Vodka to enter the canned cocktail craze. Instead, they’re doing the complete opposite. The vodka brand is selling a completely empty can that encourages customers to make canned cocktails however they like them, preferably

Amy Woodyatt, CNN Three women who believe their images were used in a Spanish “body positivity” campaign have said their likenesses were used and edited without permission — including a woman whose prosthetic leg was edited out of the image, and a woman who believes her face was edited onto the body of a woman

By Lilit Marcus, CNN Hyperion, certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s tallest living tree, is officially off-limits to visitors. California’s Redwood National Park issued a statement last week that anyone who is caught near the tree can face up to six months in jail and a $5,000 fine. The tree, which is deep

Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN She’s got more than 130,000 followers on Instagram, where she posts photos of her globetrotting adventures. Her makeup is always impeccable, her clothes look straight off the runway. She sings, dances and models — and none of it is real. Rozy is a South Korean “virtual influencer,” a digitally

By Silvia Marchetti, CNN When dozens of towns across Italy started selling crumbling buildings for the cost of an espresso, people from all over the world were prompted to grab a slice of the action — and for many different reasons. It’s not always about chasing the idyllic dream of living La Dolce Vita in

Jack Guy and Sana Noor Haq, CNN The Spanish government has launched a summer campaign encouraging women of all shapes and sizes to go to the beach. “Summer is for us too. Enjoy it however, wherever and with whoever you want,” the Ministry of Equality tweeted Wednesday. “Today we raise a toast to a summer

By Anna Cooban, CNN Business Nestlé hiked its prices by 6.5% in the first half of 2022 as it grapples with an “unprecedented” rise in costs. The world’s largest food company raised its prices the most in North America — a 9.8% increase — followed by Latin America at 9.4%, Nestlé said in a statement

By Alex Stambaugh, CNN James Lovelock, the British environmental scientist and creator of the Gaia theory, which hypothesizes Earth acts as a single living organism, has died at the age of 103. Lovelock died on Tuesday “surrounded by his family on his 103rd birthday,” a statement from his family released to the Guardian and shared

By Marlon Sorto, CNN Nicaraguan opposition leader Yubrank Suazo, who participated in protests against the government of President Daniel Ortega in 2018, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH) said Wednesday. The sentence was imposed by Judge Ulisa Tapia Silva at a court in the capital, Managua.