By Nic Robertson, CNN It was always going to be awkward — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s greeting with US President Joe Biden. Much speculated about, the image itself, from a camera position that was denied to the press traveling with Biden, was even more powerful than all the conjecture that preceded it. Like the
Continue Reading By Nic Robertson, CNN It was always going to be awkward — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s greeting with US President Joe Biden. Much speculated about, the image itself, from a camera position that was denied to the press traveling with Biden, was even more powerful than all the conjecture that preceded it. Like the
Continue Reading By Chuck Johnston, CNN The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) will transfer 4,000 beagles from a research facility in Cumberland, Virginia, to humane societies across the United States where they can be adopted, under a plan approved by a federal judge last week. A series of inspections over the course of nine months found more
Continue Reading By Will Ripley, Iqbal Athas, Kunal Sehgal and Rhea Mogul, CNN Sri Lanka’s acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said the country’s previous administration was “covering up facts” about its crippling financial crisis. Former leader Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government did not tell the truth, that Sri Lanka was “bankrupt” and “needed to go to the International Monetary
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN An elusive type of black hole has been discovered in a neighboring galaxy for the first time, according to a new study based on observations from the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Very Large Telescope. Dormant stellar-mass black holes, which form when massive stars reach the end of their lives, are particularly
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope’s first stunning images of the distant universe have been followed up by something a little closer to home. Data collected during the telescope’s commissioning period, before its science operations officially started on July 12, have been released on the Space Telescope Science Institute’s website. The publicly
Continue Reading By Artemis Moshtaghian and Benjamin Schiller, CNN A West Virginia woman has awoken from a two-year coma and identified her brother as her attacker, according to police. Wanda Palmer, 51, accused her brother of attacking her at her residence near Cottageville, West Virginia, in June 2020. Police said that Palmer was “attacked, hacked, and left
Continue Reading By Will Ripley, Iqbal Athas, Kunal Sehgal and Rhea Mogul, CNN Sri Lanka’s acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said the country’s previous administration was “covering up facts” about its crippling financial crisis. Former leader Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government did not tell the truth, that Sri Lanka was “bankrupt” and “needed to go to the International Monetary
Continue Reading By Irene Nasser and Nimi Princewill, CNN Ghana has confirmed its first two cases of the highly infectious Marburg virus disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Sunday in a statement. The announcement comes after two unrelated patients from the southern Ashanti region of Ghana, both of whom later died, tested positive for the virus.
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN When you board an airplane, the decade-old, bulky inflight entertainment screens can feel like a holdover from another era. For years, travelers have shared feedback about their outdated inflight experiences, and now it appears companies are getting closer to implementing some revolutionary concepts. In fact, if a few tech giants have
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN When you board an airplane, the decade-old, bulky inflight entertainment screens can feel like a holdover from another era. For years, travelers have shared feedback about their outdated inflight experiences, and now it appears companies are getting closer to implementing some revolutionary concepts. In fact, if a few tech giants have
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN When you board an airplane, the decade-old, bulky inflight entertainment screens can feel like a holdover from another era. For years, travelers have shared feedback about their outdated inflight experiences, and now it appears companies are getting closer to implementing some revolutionary concepts. In fact, if a few tech giants have
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson and Dakin Andone, CNN The gunman who killed 14 students and three adults at a Parkland, Florida, high school in 2018 was “cold, calculative, manipulative and deadly” in carrying out his attack, prosecutor Michael Satz said Monday in a Broward County courtroom. Three days before the shooting, Nikolas Cruz looked into his
Continue Reading By CNN’s Tim Lister and Mariya Knight Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has suspended two important figures in his government, questioning their leadership qualities and accusing many of their subordinates of treason and collaborating with Russia. The two high-ranking officials — Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova and State Security Service (SBU) head Ivan Bakanov, a long-time associate
Continue Reading By Amir Vera, Artemis Moshtaghian, Elizabeth Wolfe and Holly Yan, CNN Authorities revealed new details Monday on the weekend mall shooting in Greenwood, Indiana, including the identities of the gunman, three victims and the legally armed bystander who fatally shot the gunman. The shooting rampage took place at the Greenwood Park Mall around 6 p.m.
Continue Reading By Emiko Jozuka and Jessie Yeung, CNN At least 30 endangered green sea turtles were found on Thursday with wounds around their neck, near the remote Japanese island of Kumejima in southern Okinawa prefecture. Police began investigating the case last Friday after the sea turtles were found during low tide, according to a police official
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Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN More than 2,000 tourists have become stranded in a resort town in southern China after authorities imposed a snap lockdown to curb a Covid flare-up, as the country’s stringent zero-Covid policy continues to upend businesses and daily life. The city of Beihai, a popular summer holiday destination known for its white-sand
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, Shimon Prokupecz, Dakin Andone and Peter Nickeas, CNN In the first comprehensive look by a government agency into the Uvalde elementary school massacre, a Texas House investigative committee released a preliminary report Sunday outlining a series of failures by multiple law enforcement agencies in their response at the scene. The 77-page “interim
Continue Reading By Amir Vera, Artemis Moshtaghian and Holly Yan, CNN Authorities revealed new details Monday on the weekend mall shooting in Greenwood, Indiana, including the identities of the gunman, three victims and the legally armed bystander who fatally shot the gunman. The shooting rampage took place at the Greenwood Park Mall around 6 p.m. Sunday. Multiple
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