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Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has resigned

Sudan’s Prime Minister resigns amid violent anti-coup protests that have left at least 57 people dead

By Alaa Elassar and Pierre Meilhan, CNN Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has resigned, according to a video address from Hamdok posted Sunday on the verified YouTube account of the Prime Minister’s office. The announcement came after three protesters were killed by Sudanese security forces during anti-coup demonstrations near the capital Sunday, the civilian-allied Sudanese

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Here's how TikTok creators are making people laugh through science and history. Adrian Bliss is known on TikTok for his seemingly never ending wardrobe of costumes.

Where there’s a fact, there’s a joke. Here’s how TikTok creators are making people laugh through science and history

By Sherry Liang, CNN In a TikTok video with more than 30 million views and 7 million likes, a chipmunk is paying for groceries at the cashier. The rabbit cashier asks, “Paper or plastic?” The chipmunk ominously replies — and repeats, at the rabbit’s confusion, “Mouth.” In the next frame, the groceries (a pile of

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This image depicts beautiful metallic beetles

More than 500 new species, including colorful beetles and a ‘hell heron,’ discovered in 2021

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Shrimplike creatures, an extinct dinosaur called the “hell heron” and colorful beetles are among the 552 new species described this year by scientists at the Natural History Museum in London. The researchers were largely restricted from traveling to international field sites or visiting other museum collections due to the pandemic, but

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