By Larry Madowo and Stephanie Halasz, CNN South African rapper Costa Titch died suddenly this weekend, his family said on Instagram, hours after performing at a music festival. The musician, whose real name is Constantinos Tsobanoglou, was 28. Footage circulating on social media appeared to show Tsobanoglou fall over on stage before being lifted up
Continue Reading By Hadas Gold and Amir Tal, CNN Half a million Israelis took to the streets in the tenth consecutive week of protests against plans by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to overhaul the country’s judicial system, organizers claimed. Israel has a population of just over 9 million, so if organizers’ estimates are correct, about 5%
Continue Reading By Janelle Davis, CNN An unexpected rainstorm. A traffic jam on your morning commute. Realizing you forget to put on deodorant. There are many things that can turn your day from good to bad. But there is one thing you’re probably not thinking about. Being called “ma’am.” I was completely unaware of how much women
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh and Holly Yan, CNN Another round of storms is headed to flood-ravaged California, where residents are still grappling with impassable roads, overflowing rivers, inundated neighborhoods and a levee breach that forced hundreds to evacuate. By Sunday afternoon, parts of California’s famed Highway 1 already looked like ponds — prompting authorities to shut
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, CNN A radiographic camera containing radioactive material has gone missing in Houston, Texas, officials said Saturday. The 53-pound camera — which is commonly used in the construction industry — went missing on March 9 and was last seen on Little York Road in Houston, the Texas Department of State Health Services said
Continue Reading By Josh Pennington and Heather Chen, CNN A group of Russian wives and mothers have called on President Vladimir Putin to stop sending their husbands and sons “to the slaughter” by forcing them to join assault groups without adequate training or supplies. In a video shared by the independent Russian Telegram channel SOTA, the women
Continue Reading By Heather Chen and Jennifer Hauser, CNN One of Scotland’s oldest fox hunts has come to an end after 252 years following the introduction of new law on hunting. The Hunting with Dogs bill, which went into effect earlier this week after being passed in January, outlaws hunting and killing wild mammals using packs of
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN Six months after US authorities in New York seized three metal swords and a stone axe head that had been stolen from Ukraine, the cultural artifacts were returned to the people they belong to. The Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, DC, accepted the artifacts Friday, according to a Twitter post. “Honored to
Continue Reading By Jay Croft, CNN A Maryland man who just won his second lottery prize has a simple explanation for his good luck. It’s his long hair. William Daniels Jr., 31, of Middle River won $50,000 last week on a Maryland Lottery Gold X50 scratch-off. He also won $100,000 on a Baltimore Ravens-themed scratch-off back in
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Two weeks after a boat packed with migrants sank off the coast of southern Italy, there is still no peace for the living or the dead, and the missing — mostly children — continue to wash up on the beaches. The latest — a girl aged five or six —
Continue Reading By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Heather Chen, CNN Iran has arrested more than 100 people “in connection with” the suspected poisoning of hundreds of schoolgirls across the country, according to the state-run IRNA news agency. Citing a statement from Iran’s Interior Ministry, IRNA said the people had been “identified, arrested and investigated” in several cities, including
Continue Reading By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Heather Chen, CNN Iran has arrested more than 100 people “in connection with” the suspected poisoning of hundreds of schoolgirls across the country, according to the state-run IRNA news agency. Citing a statement from Iran’s Interior Ministry, IRNA said the people had been “identified, arrested and investigated” in several cities, including
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso, CNN The parents of Maxwell “Max” Gruver — the Louisiana State University student who died in a 2017 hazing incident — prevailed in their wrongful death lawsuit and were awarded $6.1 million by a jury in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this week, the family’s attorney, Jonathan Fazzola, told CNN. Max died on September
Continue Reading By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Behind the gleaming skyscrapers and multimillion-dollar homes that have made this city the world’s most expensive property market lies a far less attractive parallel reality: one of the world’s seemingly most intractable housing crises. Welcome to Hong Kong, where the average home sells for well north of a million dollars —
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN In one of the first major legal tests of laws cracking down on abortion since Roe v. Wade was overturned, a Texas man filed a lawsuit against three women claiming they illegally assisted his ex-wife in her abortion. Marcus Silva argued in his wrongful death lawsuit, which was filed Thursday in
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN The four astronauts who make up the Crew-5 team aboard the International Space Station returned home from a five-month stay in space Saturday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule disembarked from the space station at 2:20 am ET, beginning the final leg of the astronauts’
Continue Reading By Polo Sandoval, Melissa Alonso, Emma Tucker and Andrew Millman, CNN Three women are believed to be missing in Mexico after they crossed the US border traveling from Texas to sell clothes at a flea market more than two weeks ago, police told CNN on Saturday. Mexican authorities are investigating the disappearance of the three
Continue Reading By Jay Croft, CNN You can live like American royalty in the capital kingdom of Washington, DC. For just $26.5 million. That’s the price tag for the sale of three Georgetown mansions, which have been combined into one property with a total area of 16,000 square feet. An early Georgetown mayor and a former Miss
Continue Reading By Joshua Berlinger, CNN The City of Lights has a garbage problem. Massive strikes in Paris against pension reform this week are affecting trash pickup services in the French capital, with piles of waste sitting on many of the city’s normally picturesque streets, including those just steps from monuments like the Eiffel Tower and the
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN Scientists met this week in London at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing to discuss advances in the field — and the thorny ethical issues posed by a cutting-edge technology. The last time the high-profile forum took place was in 2018 in Hong Kong. There, Chinese scientist He Jiankui
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