By Rebekah Riess A couple was attacked by a bear and treated for injuries Wednesday evening on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, North Carolina, according to a release from parkway officials. The couple was picnicking on a grassy hill near the Folk Art Center, a museum of Appalachian arts and crafts, when their unleashed
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By Jane Levere, CNN It certainly won’t come cheap, but Richard Branson’s new private-island getaway in the British Virgin Islands — where you can stay in a luxurious villa staffed by a private chef and resident manager who creates a “hyper-personalized” itinerary for each guest — is the stuff of daydreams and bucket lists. British
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By Sara Spary, CNN Princess Beatrice of York, the grandaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, has revealed the name of her baby daughter — and it includes a touching tribute to the British monarch. Beatrice and husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi announced on Friday that their first child had been named Sienna Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi. The child
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN An Amazon delivery goes hilariously wrong, a man captures an alligator in a trash can, and a rock legend rolls through a bar unnoticed. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Signed, sealed … thrown on the roof? When an Amazon delivery driver accidentally hurled a package onto the recipient’s
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN An Amazon delivery goes hilariously wrong, a man captures an alligator in a trash can, and a rock legend rolls through a bar unnoticed. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Signed, sealed … thrown on the roof? When an Amazon delivery driver accidentally hurled a package onto the recipient’s
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN An Amazon delivery goes hilariously wrong, a man captures an alligator in a trash can, and a rock legend rolls through a bar unnoticed. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Signed, sealed … thrown on the roof? When an Amazon delivery driver accidentally hurled a package onto the recipient’s
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN An Amazon delivery goes hilariously wrong, a man captures an alligator in a trash can, and a rock legend rolls through a bar unnoticed. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Signed, sealed … thrown on the roof? When an Amazon delivery driver accidentally hurled a package onto the recipient’s
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By Allegra Goodwin, Sarah Dean and Amy Cassidy, CNN London’s Metropolitan Police has issued advice to women approached by lone police officers in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder, including telling them to run “into a house,” “wave down a bus” or call the police on 999 if they do not believe the officer is
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By Ryan Prior, CNN Each day Stephanie Land got down on her hands and knees to scrub a toilet, she was buoyed by love for her child — and a dream that one day she would be a writer. Land had escaped an abusive relationship and lacked support from her family. At one point she
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By Ben Westcott and Angus Watson, CNN Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday, October 1 announced plans to reopen the country’s borders to fully vaccinated citizens and permanent residents, moving from a strict zero-Covid strategy to a model of living with the virus. The move — expected to take effect in November — comes
Continue ReadingLilit Marcus Australian airline Qantas has set a company record by flying a one-off direct flight from Buenos Aires to the city of Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory. The flight repatriated 107 Australians and set two Qantas records in the process: longest distance covered (15,020 km or 9,333 miles) and longest time in the air
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By Marcia Reverdosa and Juliana Koch A Brazilian hospital chain has been ordered to pay 2 million BLR (USD370,500) to the family of a Covid-19 patient after giving him unproven treatment for the deadly virus without his knowledge. The Sao Paulo court sentenced the healthcare company Prevent Senior to pay the compensation after hearing that
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By Nicole Chavez and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN Canada observed its first national holiday honoring victims and survivors of the country’s residential school system. The statutory holiday came a day after a federal court upheld a 2016 ruling ordering the Canadian government to compensate Indigenous children who were placed into foster care. Thursday’s National Day for
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By Juliana Kochs, CNN So-called “vaccine passports” have been reinstated in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, just one day after a local judge suspended them for being too divisive. At the request of the city government, Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday annulled a ruling by Judge Paulo Rangel that had briefly prohibited requiring
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By Allegra Goodwin and Kara Fox, CNN A man charged with the “predatory” murder of 28-year-old London school teacher Sabina Nessa appeared in court on Thursday. Koci Selamaj, a 36-year-old garage worker, is alleged to have attacked Nessa as she walked the short distance from her home in southeast London to a local pub, where
Continue ReadingBy Ben Westcott and Chandler Thornton, CNN Fans who gathered to watch two Victoria-based rivals play in one of Australia’s top sporting events are partly to blame for a more than 50% increase in the state’s daily reported Covid-19 cases, local officials said Thursday. Victoria reported 1,438 new infections Thursday, up from 948 the previous
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN The London apartment where Diana Spencer lived before she became the Princess of Wales has been commemorated with an official blue plaque. The plaque was posted on the Coleherne Court building on Old Brompton Street in Kensington on September 29 following a successful campaign led by the London Assembly. “Diana had,
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By Stefano Pozzebon and Abel Alvarado, CNN Violent clashes that erupted in an Ecuadorian prison on Tuesday have killed 118 people and wounded 79, the country’s prison agency said late Thursday. The death toll represents a significant uptick from earlier estimates after the disturbances at the Litoral Penitentiary, located on the outskirts of the coastal
Continue Reading By Stefano Pozzebon and Abel Alvarado, CNN Violent clashes that erupted in an Ecuadorian prison on Tuesday have killed 118 people and wounded 79, the country’s prison agency said late Thursday. The death toll represents a significant uptick from earlier estimates after the disturbances at the Litoral Penitentiary, located on the outskirts of the coastal
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By Allegra Goodwin, Sarah Dean and Amy Cassidy, CNN London’s Metropolitan Police has issued advice to women approached by lone police officers in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder, including telling them to run “into a house,” “wave down a bus” or call the police on 999 if they do not believe the officer is
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