By Sana Noor Haq, CNN Leonardo DiCaprio has an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe awards under his belt. But his latest accolade comes from a group of international scientists at London’s Royal Botanic Kew Gardens and the National Herbarium of Cameroon, who have honored the Hollywood actor and environmental activist by naming a
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By Sharif Paget and Forrest Brown, CNN Royal Caribbean International announced on Friday it has canceled voyages on four ships because of “ongoing Covid-related circumstances around the world.” “In abundance of caution, Royal Caribbean International is pausing operations” on some ships, the company said in a statement. The cruise line said it moved forward with
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN Zoo animals take a snow day, skiers rescue a lucky dog from an avalanche, and rule-breaking partyers are grounded in Cancun. These are the must-watch videos of the week. A wild snow day Animals at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo enjoyed the first snowfall of 2022 in the Washington, DC, area, including
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN Zoo animals take a snow day, skiers rescue a lucky dog from an avalanche, and rule-breaking partyers are grounded in Cancun. These are the must-watch videos of the week. A wild snow day Animals at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo enjoyed the first snowfall of 2022 in the Washington, DC, area, including
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN Zoo animals take a snow day, skiers rescue a lucky dog from an avalanche, and rule-breaking partyers are grounded in Cancun. These are the must-watch videos of the week. A wild snow day Animals at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo enjoyed the first snowfall of 2022 in the Washington, DC, area, including
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN Zoo animals take a snow day, skiers rescue a lucky dog from an avalanche, and rule-breaking partyers are grounded in Cancun. These are the must-watch videos of the week. A wild snow day Animals at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo enjoyed the first snowfall of 2022 in the Washington, DC, area, including
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By Amy Cassidy and Ivana Kottasová, CNN The British government is tapping into the military to ease staffing shortages across London hospitals caused by a fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced Friday it would deploy 200 personnel to hospitals across the capital, where the number of people hospitalized with Covid-19 reached
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By Natalie Gallón and Matt Rivers, CNN The bodies of two Haitian journalists killed on Thursday, were retrieved Friday and removed from the mountainous terrain of the Laboule 12 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, a source in Haiti’s security forces told CNN. Despite initial information from Haitian National Police shared internally and reported by CNN and other
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By Forrest Brown, CNN Hong Kong Disneyland has announced that the park will temporarily close from Friday, January 7, to Thursday, January 20. On its website, the park pointed to the latest global surge of Covid-19 saying the move was “required by the government and health authorities and in line with prevention efforts taking place
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By Hannah Ryan, CNN When most people go looking for love, they turn to dating apps or matchmaking websites, or they ask friends to set them up — but Muhammad Malik is taking a different approach entirely. The 29-year-old bachelor from London has been using billboards in the UK city of Birmingham to advertise himself
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By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Four people have been cleared of causing criminal damage to a statue of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston, which was pulled down and thrown into England’s River Avon, PA Media news agency reports. Demonstrators in the city of Bristol tied the bronze monument with rope before tearing it down during a
Continue Reading By Hannah Ryan, CNN When most people go looking for love, they turn to dating apps or matchmaking websites, or they ask friends to set them up — but Muhammad Malik is taking a different approach entirely. The 29-year-old bachelor from London has been using billboards in the UK city of Birmingham to advertise himself
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By Matt Rivers, Jamie Crawford, Florencia Trucco and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN The United States has arrested a Colombian man for his alleged involvement in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, who was killed in his bedroom last July. Mario Palacios was extradited to the US from Panama on Tuesday, Colombian National Place said in
Continue Reading By Matt Rivers, Jamie Crawford, Florencia Trucco and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN The United States has arrested a Colombian man for his alleged involvement in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, who was killed in his bedroom last July. Mario Palacios was extradited to the US from Panama on Tuesday, Colombian National Place said in
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By Forrest Brown, CNN In its first update of travel advisories for 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added just one new destination — a popular Caribbean winter getaway — to its highest-risk category. The CDC advises travelers to avoid Aruba, a Dutch island just off the coast of South America,
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By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN As many as 23 people have been killed in clashes between rival guerrilla groups in Colombia’s northern Arauca area, according to a spokesperson from the Attorney General’s office. “We are proceeding with the preliminary figure of 23 victims, but the information is still not [fully] clear. It’s very hard to enter
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By Marcos Moreno and Jack Guy, CNN Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was admitted to a hospital early Monday morning with a blockage in his intestine. Bolsonaro is suffering an “intestinal subocclusion,” a statement from the Vila Nova Star Hospital in São Paulo said. It’s the latest medical issue linked to a 2018 incident in which
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By Kris Fordham, CNN Though 2021 was not exactly the year of jet-setting travel that we’d hoped for, we have our fingers crossed for 2022. From cool urban hideaways in Oslo, Sydney and New York to far-flung island escapes in Mozambique, Indonesia and the Maldives, there’s an exciting array of hotels opening across the world.
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq, CNN Footprints discovered on a beach in Wales are believed to have been made by an early dinosaur more than 200 million years ago, experts say. Paleontologists at London’s Natural History Museum said the footprints, which date back to the Triassic period, were thought to belong to a very early sauropod
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By Kara Fox, Ryan Prior and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Leading British Covid-19 experts have joined the likes of James Bond, Tony Blair and Emma Raducanu in receiving awards in the Queen’s New Year’s honors list. England’s Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty and deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam are to be knighted for
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