By Rob Picheta, CNN Australian actress Nicole Kidman has matched Daniel Craig‘s £10,000 ($13,760) donation to three British fathers, who have completed a 300-mile walk for a suicide prevention charity after their daughters took their own lives. Kidman said she was “profoundly moved” by the efforts of the three men, who spent two weeks walking
Continue ReadingBy Sharon Braithwaite and Kara Fox, CNN Five British police officers will face misconduct action over social media messages sent in relation to Sarah Everard, who was raped and murdered by a serving police officer, the UK’s police watchdog said Friday. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which oversees the police complaints system in
Continue ReadingBy Martin Goillandeau and Kara Fox, CNN A man has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism-related offenses in connection with the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, which killed 22 people and injured hundreds more, according to police. A 24-year-old, from the Fallowfield area of Manchester, was arrested “shortly after arriving back in the UK” and remains
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN A pug’s predictions go viral, a massive fish almost breaks scientists’ scale, and John Legend is serenaded by a street performer. These are the must-watch videos of the week. ‘No bones’ to pick A 13-year-old adopted pug has over 1.7 million followers on TikTok for his hilarious forecasts of the future.
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN A pug’s predictions go viral, a massive fish almost breaks scientists’ scale, and John Legend is serenaded by a street performer. These are the must-watch videos of the week. ‘No bones’ to pick A 13-year-old adopted pug has over 1.7 million followers on TikTok for his hilarious forecasts of the future.
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN A pug’s predictions go viral, a massive fish almost breaks scientists’ scale, and John Legend is serenaded by a street performer. These are the must-watch videos of the week. ‘No bones’ to pick A 13-year-old adopted pug has over 1.7 million followers on TikTok for his hilarious forecasts of the future.
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN A pug’s predictions go viral, a massive fish almost breaks scientists’ scale, and John Legend is serenaded by a street performer. These are the must-watch videos of the week. ‘No bones’ to pick A 13-year-old adopted pug has over 1.7 million followers on TikTok for his hilarious forecasts of the future.
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN A pug’s predictions go viral, a massive fish almost breaks scientists’ scale, and John Legend is serenaded by a street performer. These are the must-watch videos of the week. ‘No bones’ to pick A 13-year-old adopted pug has over 1.7 million followers on TikTok for his hilarious forecasts of the future.
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By Ben Westcott, CNN At midnight, Australia’s second-largest state emerged from what some experts and local media called the world’s longest lockdown. Victoria is the third state or territory — after New South Wales (NSW) and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) — to begin living with Covid-19 after reaching its target of a 70% adult
Continue Reading By Ben Westcott, CNN At midnight, Australia’s second-largest state emerged from what some experts and local media called the world’s longest lockdown. Victoria is the third state or territory — after New South Wales (NSW) and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) — to begin living with Covid-19 after reaching its target of a 70% adult
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By David Wilkinson and Max Foster, CNN Queen Elizabeth II spent Wednesday night at a hospital while undergoing “preliminary investigations,” according to a Buckingham palace spokesperson, after abruptly canceling a planned trip to Northern Ireland this week. The 95-year-old UK monarch entered the hospital on Wednesday and returned to Windsor Castle on Thursday, the spokesperson’s
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By Caitlin Hu, AnneClaire Stapleton, Matt Rivers, Natalie Gallón and David Shortell, CNN The leader of the gang that kidnapped 17 US and Canadian missionaries in Haiti has threatened to kill them if he doesn’t get what he wants, according to a video released Thursday. The video appears to show Wilson Joseph — who goes
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By Hannah Ritchie, CNN London has more public sculptures of animals than it does of women or people of color, a new study has revealed. Across London, 8% of public sculptures depict animals, while only 4% depict women, according to the study from the British charity Art UK, which was published on Thursday. People of
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By Paula Newton, CNN Canada is launching a standardized proof of vaccination credential in the coming weeks for both domestic and international travel. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement outside a children’s hospital in Ottawa Thursday, saying Canada is among the world’s leaders in vaccination rates and Canadians want to begin traveling again.
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By Sharon Braithwaite, CNN A man charged with the murder of British politician David Amess had links to the ISIS terror group and targeted the MP due to his support for air strikes on Syria, a court in London heard Thursday. Ali Harbi Ali, 25 and from London, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court for a
Continue Reading By Caitlin Hu, AnneClaire Stapleton, Matt Rivers, Natalie Gallón and David Shortell, CNN The leader of the gang that kidnapped 17 US and Canadian missionaries in Haiti has threatened to kill them if he doesn’t get what he wants, according to a video released Thursday. The video appears to show Wilson Joseph — who goes
Continue Reading By Sharon Braithwaite, CNN A man charged with the murder of British politician David Amess had links to the ISIS terror group and targeted the MP due to his support for air strikes on Syria, a court in London heard Thursday. Ali Harbi Ali, 25 and from London, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court for a
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By Rob Picheta, CNN Britain’s doctors’ union has accused Boris Johnson’s government of being “willfully negligent” in its handling of the latest wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, as ministers refuse to introduce mitigation measures despite the country recording more than 50,000 new infections on Thursday. The United Kingdom has recently registered far more cases than
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By Helen Regan and Hilary Whiteman, CNN The Western Australian government has offered a 1 million Australian dollar ($750,000) reward for information that leads to the whereabouts of a 4-year-old girl missing for six days in a remote coastal area. Cleo Smith vanished from her family’s tent at Blowholes campsite in Macleod, about 50 kilometers
Continue ReadingBy Mick Krever, Nada Bashir and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN Five days after UK Member of Parliament David Amess was stabbed to death, lawmakers in the UK are now believed to face a “substantial” threat, the Home Secretary said Wednesday evening in the House of Commons. “The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre has conducted an independent review
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