CTV NETWORK, ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, CNN By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Shipwreck hunters have found the vessel Quest — once captained by renowned Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton — largely intact on the ocean floor, 15 nautical miles off the coast of Canada, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society has announced. Shackleton was aboard the famed
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has long been associated with human sacrifice, with hundreds of bones unearthed from temples, a sacred sinkhole and other underground caverns. A long-held misconception is that the victims were often young and female — an impression that has
Continue ReadingBy Brian Patrick Flynn for HGTV Rustic-style decorating, whether year-round or holiday-based, is achieved through a heavy use of texture, neutral hues and natural materials. Incorporate modern, rustic elements into your holiday decor with ideas from designer Casey Noble. Mason Jar Lights Blogger Hannah Slaughter brings understated elegance to this disparate grouping of Mason jars and discarded
Continue ReadingBy Tatiana Arias Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is heading to China on a state visit this week, with talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping expected to focus largely on trade, as well as the war in Ukraine. The 77-year-old Lula had originally planned to visit Beijing last month, but was hospitalized with
Continue ReadingTamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN He’d spent years backpacking around the world, and Japanese traveler Daisuke Kajiyama was finally ready to return home to pursue his long-held dream of opening up a guesthouse. In 2011, Kajiyama arrived back in Japan with his Israeli partner Hila, who he met in Nepal, and the pair set about finding the
Continue ReadingBy Max Foster, Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Florence Davey-Attlee, CNN Buckingham Palace on Sunday revealed further details ahead of the coronation of King Charles III, which will take place in London in less than a month’s time. The new British sovereign will be crowned alongside his wife, Camilla, in a deeply religious service at Westminster Abbey
Continue ReadingBy Sam Fossum While China and Russia have strengthened ties since the Kremlin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, the US has not seen evidence that China has provided systemic material support to the Kremlin as Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government look for avenues to evade Western sanctions and backfill its military, according to senior
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace and Catherine Nicholls, CNN South African authorities are applauding a pilot’s courage for safely landing an aircraft after feeling a venomous stowaway cobra slithering on his body mid-flight. The pilot, Rudolf Erasmus, told CNN he was piloting a small aircraft on Monday with four colleagues aboard when he felt a “cold sensation
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace and Catherine Nicholls, CNN South African authorities are applauding a pilot’s courage for safely landing an aircraft after feeling a venomous stowaway cobra slithering on his body mid-flight. The pilot, Rudolf Erasmus, told CNN he was piloting a small aircraft on Monday with four colleagues aboard when he felt a “cold sensation
Continue ReadingBy Luke McGee, CNN US President Joe Biden will visit Belfast, Northern Ireland, this week to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA), a peace deal that brought an end to decades of sectarian violence on the island of Ireland known as “the Troubles.” A lot has changed since 1998, when the deal was reached, but the accord lives large in the imaginations of
Continue ReadingBy Allegra Goodwin, CNN Britain’s King Charles III has shown his support for research into the British monarchy’s historical ties to transatlantic slavery, the UK’s Guardian newspaper reported Thursday, after it published a document which researchers say shows evidence of a stake in a slave-trading company belonging to King William III. The document, published by
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN A 26-year-old man has been charged with allegedly removing a platypus from its natural habitat in Morayfield, a town in Australia, Queensland Police said on Thursday following a hunt for the suspect and animal. Police allege that the man, accompanied by a woman, took the platypus from a local waterway on
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam and Junko Ogura, CNN Police in Japan have arrested two men for contaminating a communal bowl of pickled ginger at a fast food restaurant, after a video of the prank was shared widely on social media. The arrests come as similar acts involving food, dubbed online as “#sushitero” or “#sushiterrorism”, appear to
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Japan has lost so many chickens to bird flu, it’s now running out of land to bury them. Japanese state broadcaster NHK reported Tuesday that 16 out of 26 prefectures in the country did not have enough land to dispose of culled birds properly. All 26 had reported experiencing avian flu
Continue ReadingBy Heather Chen, CNN A Russian tourist has been deported from Bali after a semi-nude photo he took on top of a sacred mountain went viral and sparked heated public debate about misbehaving tourists on the island. The 24-year-old Russian national, identified by Balinese immigration authorities as Yuri Chilikin, was deported on Tuesday, April 4
Continue ReadingBy Florencia Trucco, CNN Four children have been killed and four more injured in an ax attack at a day care center in the southern Brazilian city of Blumenau. Those killed — three boys and a girl — were between the ages of 5 and 7, local police say. Jorginho Mello, the governor of the
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, Lauren Kent and Jessie Gretener, CNN The husband of former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Peter Murrell, was arrested on Wednesday in connection with an investigation into the funding and finances of the Scottish National Party. Murrell, 58, stepped down as the SNP’s chief executive last month after more than two decades
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN A man who admitted abducting a four-year-old girl from a remote campsite in Western Australia and holding her for 18 days during a massive police search has been sentenced to 13 years and 6 months in prison. Terence Kelly, 37, pleaded guilty to abducting Cleo Smith from the tent she was
Continue ReadingBy Max Foster and Tara John, CNN Buckingham Palace released King Charles’ coronation invitation on Tuesday, in which his wife was titled Queen Camilla for the first time. The intricate invitation, which is printed on recycled card and includes an illustrated border of wild flowers and the Green Man from British folklore, was headed with
Continue ReadingBy Bertha Ramos and AJ Davis, CNN Four people were found dead near a hotel in Cancun on Monday, according to Mexican officials, the latest bout of violence in the popular tourist destination. Two people have been arrested for their possible involvement in the deaths of four people, according to the attorney general of the
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