By Jessie Yeung, CNN A surging Covid outbreak in China. Countries imposing travel restrictions on Chinese travelers, wary of the virus being imported. Scientists warning against fearmongering and xenophobia. But this isn’t early 2020. The familiar scene is playing out now as China battles its biggest-ever outbreak, after abandoning its stringent zero-Covid approach and partially
Continue Reading Oscar Holland, CNN The last year in architecture will be remembered as one of firsts, from the world’s first “upcycled” skyscraper winning World Building of the Year to Burkina Faso-born Francis Kéré becoming the first African architect to win the coveted Pritzker Prize. It was also a year in which we lost industry giants like
Continue Reading By Heather Chen, CNN Bangladesh on Wednesday launched its first metro rail service in the capital Dhaka, with officials and commuters hopeful it will help ease traffic in one of the world’s most densely populated and congested cities. The largely Japanese-funded project, known as Line 6, was inaugurated at a ceremony by Prime Minister Sheikh
Continue Reading By Gregory Wallace, Forrest Brown, Barry Neild and Karla Cripps, CNN Southwest Airlines says it’s set up to resume normal schedules on Friday after a tumultuous eight days that left hundreds of thousands of passengers delayed or stranded and prompted its executives to make apologies to the riding public and government officials. In a statement
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN Theophilus London, a rapper from Trinidad and Tobago with three studio albums to his name, has been reported missing in Los Angeles, the LAPD confirmed to CNN. The missing person’s report was filed with the department on Tuesday, according to police. “On October 15, 2022, around 12 p.m., London was last
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, CNN A Texas judge has denied a bond reduction for a suspect charged with murder in the death of Migos member Takeoff, according to the man’s attorney, Letitia Quinones. Harris County Judge Josh Hill kept Patrick Clark’s bond at $1 million, reasoning that Clark may be a flight risk, Quinones told CNN.
Continue Reading By Gregory Wallace, CNN Ask Southwest Airlines employees about their company’s technology, and one word keeps coming up: “antiquated.” While Southwest grew from a scrappy, Texas-based discount airline operating three planes into one of the nation’s largest — union officials representing Southwest workers say the company did not keep pace with technology changes. And they
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Jeremiah Green, the drummer for the band Modest Mouse, is currently being treated for cancer. The band’s frontman Isaac Brock asked people for support on Modest Mouse’s official Instagram on Wednesday, writing, “Some of you may have already heard, but I figured it would be good to hear the news directly
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Chelsea Handler is opening up about her former relationship with fellow comic Jo Koy. In an episode of Brooke Shields’ “Now What?” podcast published Tuesday, Handler said that she truly thought she was going to spend the rest of her life with Koy. “I really believed that this was my guy.
Continue Reading By Hafsa Khalil, CNN Ariana Grande has brought some festive sparkle to young patients across Manchester in England once again, after donating gifts to children’s hospitals in the city this Christmas. The One Last Time singer has had a long-standing relationship with Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Charity since the Manchester Arena attack in 2017, in
Continue Reading By Forrest Brown, Gregory Wallace and Karla Cripps, CNN As beleaguered Southwest Airlines continues to sort out stranded passengers, uncollected baggage and out-of-position airplanes, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has taken the airline to task. He’s pulling no punches, referring to the situation as a complete “meltdown” of the system. Meanwhile, the airline’s decision to
Continue Reading By Gregory Wallace and Forrest Brown, CNN The boss of Southwest Airlines has vowed he will “make good” to passengers hit by his company’s disastrous holiday meltdown as the carrier was delivering on its promise to resume better service on Friday. “This has impacted so many people — so many customers — over the holidays,”
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Billie Lourd had a message about living and grieving on the anniversary of her mother’s death. Her mom, actress and author Carrie Fisher, died December 27, 2016, at age 60. “It has been 6 years since my Momby died (feels like 2 but also like 705 at the same time?),” Lourd
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN Zach Bryan gave us all a welcome gift just in time for Christmas. The rising country star, named among Barack Obama’s favorite musicians this year, surprise dropped a new album on Saturday, a collection of live tracks titled, “All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster (Live at Red Rocks).” In the social media
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN Hugh Jackman is sharing details on how his best-known character, grisly mutant X-Man Wolverine, will interact with Ryan Reynolds’s wisecracking Deadpool in the upcoming “Deadpool 3.” In a recent Empire Film podcast, Jackman said the two characters are a “zero” in terms of compatibility, calling them “opposites” and saying that they
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have celebrated their first Christmas as Mr. and Mrs. Affleck. “We have blended families, doubled the people, doubled the fun, doubled the love, doubled the presents and tripled the chaos!!” Lopez wrote in her The J.Lo newsletter. The duo, who held their first of two wedding
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Morrissey isn’t spreading holiday cheer. The British singer took to his website on over the weekend to announce that he’d split with his label, Capitol Records. He also claimed Miley Cyrus has asked to be removed from a song they have recorded. Under a post titled “Miley Is a Punk Rocker,”
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By Forrest Brown, CNN Terrible weather. Computer glitches. Inflation. Staffing shortages. Holiday crunches. It was a tough slog for many air travelers for much of 2022. And the year went out rough as it came in with a massive winter storm the week before Christmas and the meltdown of Southwest Airlines. And 2023 couldn’t even
Continue Reading By Laura Ly and Amanda Jackson, CNN Many winter holiday travelers in the United States have had a real rough go of it — and they have some real humdinger stories to tell. Just as millions piled into cars and flooded into airports with stuffed bags in tow over the weekend, a paralyzing winter storm
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, Selina Wang and Cheng Cheng, CNN China’s partial reopening has been met with an outpouring of joy and relief from citizens — both the hundreds of millions isolated inside the country for the past three years and those overseas separated from their loved ones. Authorities announced Monday that starting January 8, China
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