By Matias Grez, CNN The Champions League has been whittled down to just eight contestants as the remaining teams found out their quarterfinal fate in Friday’s draw at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. After comfortably dispatching Liverpool in the previous round, holder Real Madrid was drawn against another English club in Chelsea. Real will be
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN Spanish tennis star Carlos Alcaraz has big ambitions — and one of those is to be able to emulate some of the game’s greats such as Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal by winning titles immediately after coming back from injury. The 19-year-old didn’t play a competitive match for more than three
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, Jennifer Feldman and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A Missouri sheriff and two of his deputies were arrested Thursday and charged in connection with an alleged plot to help a father kidnap his daughter from her mother after an argument last month, charging documents show. The father, Rick Gaston, 62, was also arrested and
Continue ReadingBy Annette Choi and Han Vu, CNN Telehealth and social media are playing a significant role in driving demand for Ozempic, a prescription drug that treats Type 2 diabetes, experts told CNN. The current drug shortage has limited access for patients with diabetes who rely on it to control their blood sugar. Digital health companies
Continue ReadingBy Jack Forrest, CNN A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that a temporary block on a portion of a law pushed by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis restricting what can be taught in Florida’s public colleges and universities will remain in place. The three-judge panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals denied
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and Anna Chernova, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping will fly to Moscow next week to meet with President Vladimir Putin in his first visit to Russia since Putin launched his devastating invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago. The visit will be seen as a powerful show of Beijing’s support for
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By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Centuries-old cultural artifacts that had been illegally smuggled out from Cambodia have been welcomed home at a celebration led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who offered thanks for their return and appealed for further efforts to retrieve such stolen treasures. Many, if not all, of
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN The world will look a bit greener today as many people wear the color to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. In the US and other countries, the holiday is mainly thought of as a celebration of Irish pride — but, interestingly, St. Patrick wasn’t actually Irish. Here’s what else you need to know
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, Theresa Waldrop and Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN The fate of nearly 200,000 American students’ education will soon be controlled not by locally elected leaders but by state-appointed managers yet to be named. The Texas Education Agency said it plans to appoint a board of managers to take over the Houston Independent School
Continue Reading By KARL RITTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to visit Moscow next week, a major boost for Russian President Vladimir Putin amid sharpening East-West tensions over the war in Ukraine and the latest sign of Beijing’s emboldened diplomatic ambitions. Western leaders have tried to isolate Putin over the conflict,
Continue Reading By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A United States envoy has urged Serbia and Kosovo to implement a European Union-facilitated agreement on normalizing their relations, calling it the best option to preserve peace and security in the region. Gabriel Escobar visited Pristina Friday ahead of a summit meeting between
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of elite officers in Israel’s military reserves say they will not show up for duty starting on Sunday in protest over the ruling coalition’s planned overhaul of the judicial system. The firm date is the first time set for an unprecedented political protest within the security services. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN Sometimes newfound flower species are lurking where scientists least expect to see them — in parks, gardens and even in planters on balconies. That’s where researchers in Japan recently identified a new species of orchid, its pink-and-white blooms so delicate and fragile they look like they were spun from glass. The
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN China’s central bank has made a surprise cut to the amount of money that banks must keep in reserve, in an effort to keep money flowing through the financial system and prop up the economy. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said it would cut the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for
Continue Reading By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Protesters disrupted traffic in Paris on Friday as angry critics, political opponents and labor unions around France blasted President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to force a bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 through parliament without a vote. Opposition parties were expected to start procedures later
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s response to the failure of two large banks has already involved hundreds of billions of dollars. So will ordinary Americans end up paying for it, one way or another? And what will the price tag be? It could be months before the answers are fully
Continue ReadingBy Carlos Suarez and Devon M. Sayers, CNN As she watched construction workers dismantle the amusement park ride where her 14-year-old son died from a horrific fall, Nekia Dodd hoped no families will suffer as she has this last year. Tyre Sampson plummeted to his death from the Orlando FreeFall drop tower in ICON Park
Continue ReadingJacqui Palumbo, CNN A former photojournalist, Aïda Muluneh now creates images that pose questions, rather than offering answers. Muluneh has spent years creating surrealist photographs of stately African women bearing symbols that reckon with conflict, history and power. Painted eye motifs — as well as her subjects’ unflinching gaze — represent the need to bear
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN Seeing surprise guests at sporting events is not uncommon. You often catch a glimpse of a movie star at a grand slam tennis event or a musician at a golf major. Soccer is no different. On Thursday, reality TV star Kim Kardashian sprinkled celebrity gold dust over Arsenal’s Europa League game
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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark has looked over the women’s NCAA Tournament bracket, eyed the potential matchups facing her second-seeded Hawkeyes and the rest of their Big Ten brethern, and come to a rather optimistic conclusion. “The Big Ten can certainly place two in the Final Four,” she said. “I
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