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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — About 5,200 years ago, a man’s life ended violently in a peat bog in northwest Denmark. Now, researchers have used advanced genetic analyses to tell the unexpected story of “Vittrup Man,” the oldest known immigrant in Denmark’s history. Bog bodies, the uniquely preserved “accidental mummies” discovered in Northern Europe,

By Rob Picheta, Olga Voitovych and Seb Shukla, CNN (CNN) — Russia and Ukraine exchanged air attacks on Thursday, with Moscow targeting cities across Ukraine and Kyiv striking the Russian border city of Belgorod, one day after Kyiv said it sank another Russian warship off the coast of Crimea. At least seven people were reported

By Adie Vanessa Offiong and Daniel Renjifo, CNN (CNN) — On February 4, the Grammy awards announced the first-ever winner of the new Best African Music Performance, with South Africa’s Tyla taking home the title for her hit “Water.” Yet African artists have been honored at the Grammys since fellow South African Miriam Makeba won

CNN By Adie Vanessa Offiong and Daniel Renjifo, CNN (CNN) — On February 4, the Grammy awards announced the first-ever winner of the new Best African Music Performance, with South Africa’s Tyla taking home the title for her hit “Water.” Yet African artists have been honored at the Grammys since fellow South African Miriam Makeba

By Kareem Khadder, Lauren Izso, Sana Noor Haq and Mick Krever, CNN (CNN) — Israeli special forces raided Nasser Hospital in Gaza, the largest functioning hospital in the enclave, after laying siege to the facility for days. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had detained a number of suspects in Thursday’s raid, which it

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Imagine eating a delicious, nourishing bowl of beef rice. No, not beef on rice – beef rice. That’s what a team of South Korean researchers are hoping to plate up with their newly developed hybrid rice, grown in a lab with cow muscle and fat cells inside the rice

By Aishwarya S Iyer and Rhea Mogul, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — The demolition of two mosques in India within days of each other has highlighted the deep religious divide in the country, months before voters head to the polls for a nationwide election that is expected to hand Prime Minister Narendra Modi a rare

By Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Three former police officers were sentenced in a Seoul court on Wednesday for destroying evidence related to the deadly Halloween crowd crush in the city’s Itaewon neighborhood in 2022. They are the first officers to be convicted of crimes related to the crowd crush, in which

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The Odysseus lunar lander, nicknamed “Odie” or IM-1, has embarked on a historic journey to the lunar surface — aiming to make the first touchdown of a US-made spacecraft on the moon in five decades. The launch follows closely on the heels of a separate US lunar landing mission