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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of professional soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo. Personal Birth date: February 5, 1985 Birth place: Funchal, Portugal Birth name: Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro Father: Jose Dinis Aveiro, a gardener Mother: Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro, a cook Children: with Georgina Rodriguez: Alana Martina, 2017;

By Celine Alkhaldi, Allegra Goodwin and Richard Allen Greene, CNN (CNN) — A road being built by the Israeli military splitting Gaza in two has reached the Mediterranean coast, a CNN analysis of satellite imagery shows. It’s part of a security plan to control the territory for months and possibly years to come, Israeli officials

By Amarachi Orie and Gul Tuysuz, CNN (CNN) — Archeologists in Turkey say they have discovered the world’s oldest known bread, dating back to 6600 BC. A largely destroyed oven structure was found in an area called “Mekan 66,” where there are adjoining mudbrick houses, at the archeological site of Çatalhöyük in the southern Turkish

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A peculiar fossil has helped scientists discover an unusual bird that lived among the dinosaurs 120 million years ago, and the find is changing the way researchers think about avian evolution. The previously unknown species has been named Imparavis attenboroughi, which means “Attenborough’s strange bird” in Latin in honor

By Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder, Khader Zaanoun, Sophie Tanno, Paul P. Murphy and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN (CNN) — At least five people were killed and 10 others injured when airdropped aid packages fell on them in the Al Shati camp west of Gaza City, according to a journalist on the scene. Khader Al Zaanoun told

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — For more than a century, many people of Irish descent have faced a daunting predicament when searching for details about their families’ pasts. A 1922 fire at the Public Records Office in Dublin at the outset of Ireland’s Civil War destroyed census, vital and probate records. While some

By Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver, David von Blohn and Lacey Russell, CNN Port-au-Prince (CNN) — They have the calm of people who have lived through terrible things. But they are just kids. As gangs rampage in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, several children and teenagers tell CNN they have been orphaned, wounded, raped and even recruited by members of these armed

CNN By Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver, David von Blohn and Lacey Russell, CNN Port-au-Prince (CNN) — They have the calm of people who have lived through terrible things. But they are just kids. As gangs rampage in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, several children and teenagers tell CNN they have been orphaned, wounded, raped and even recruited by members of these

CNN By Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver, David von Blohn and Lacey Russell, CNN Port-au-Prince (CNN) — They have the calm of people who have lived through terrible things. But they are just kids. As gangs rampage in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, several children and teenagers tell CNN they have been orphaned, wounded, raped and even recruited by members of these

CNN By Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver, David von Blohn and Lacey Russell, CNN Port-au-Prince (CNN) — They have the calm of people who have lived through terrible things. But they are just kids. As gangs rampage in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, several children and teenagers tell CNN they have been orphaned, wounded, raped and even recruited by members of these

By Mick Krever, CNN (CNN) — Ultra-Orthodox Israelis have long held a privileged position in that society. Their religious schools, or yeshivas, get generous government subsidies. And yet young men of the Haredim, as they are known in Hebrew, are in all practical terms exempt from mandatory military service. That exemption has bedeviled Israeli society

By Elliott Gotkine, Mia Alberti and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s military has said its investigation into the deadly humanitarian aid incident in Gaza last month found Israeli troops did not fire at the aid convoy, but at “a number of suspects” who approached and posed a threat to nearby forces, a conclusion swiftly

By Nimi Princewill and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — At least 287 school children, some as young as eight years old, are being held by gunmen who raided their school in Nigeria’s northwestern Kaduna State early Thursday, a police spokesperson told CNN Friday. More than 300 students were taken early Thursday by the armed bandits