By Catherine Nicholls and Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — A 10-year-old boy has been rescued near Madrid after spending the night clinging to a tree to escape severe flooding as Storm Dana lashed the country with torrential rains in recent days, killing at least three people. The boy disappeared with his mother, father, and sister
Continue Reading By Lauren Mascarenhas and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Chester County, Pennsylvania (CNN) — The manhunt for Danelo Cavalcante that has communities in southeastern Pennsylvania on high alert has shifted after the escaped murderer was spotted just south of the original search area, state police said Tuesday. Cavalcante escaped from Chester County Prison on Thursday morning and
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Four astronauts have returned from a six-month stay on the International Space Station, splashing down off the coast of Florida on Monday. The astronauts oversaw research projects and hosted three paying customers aboard the station as NASA seeks to increase the amount of commercial activity in low-Earth orbit. Here’s
Continue Reading By Melissa Bell, Daria Tarasova-Markina and Pierre Bairin, CNN Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine (CNN) — The T0408 was once a country lane that led peacefully southward through the open fields of Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region, from Orikhiv through Robotyne and on to Tokmak. Now, the men of Ukraine’s 47th Mechanized Brigade have renamed it “the road
Continue Reading By Chris Lau and Jerome Taylor, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kong’s top court has ordered the city’s government to set up a new framework to legally recognize the rights of same-sex couples in a partial victory for LGBTQ activists that stopped short of their demands for full marriage equality. Five judges from Hong
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Invasive species cost the world at least $423 billion every year as they drive plant and animal extinctions, threaten food security and exacerbate environmental catastrophes across the globe, a major new United Nations-backed report has found. Human activity – often through travel or global trade – is spreading these
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Hundreds of thousands of teachers are protesting in South Korea after the suspected suicide of a teacher that was widely blamed on the burden on educators in a country notorious for its high-pressure education system. Angry teachers say they face overly
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — With his hands cuffed, Ned Kelly Emeralds scribbles awkwardly on a piece of paper inside a Brisbane courthouse as he hurriedly tries to tell his story after years of immigration detention. It’s 2019, and Emeralds can’t speak, not because guards are waiting outside the meeting room door,
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of Burning Man attendees finally made their mass exodus after intense rain over the weekend flooded camp sites and filled them with thick, ankle-deep mud – stranding more than 70,000 free-spirited revelers as they waited for the Nevada desert city to dry out. Organizers officially announced the driving
Continue Reading CNN By Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of Burning Man attendees finally made their mass exodus after intense rain over the weekend flooded camp sites and filled them with thick, ankle-deep mud, stranding more than 70,000 free-spirited revelers as they waited for the Nevada desert city to dry out. It wasn’t until Monday afternoon
Continue Reading By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — A surgical tool the size of a dinner plate was found inside a woman’s abdomen 18 months after her baby was delivered by cesarean section, according to a report by New Zealand’s Health and Disability Commissioner. An Alexis retractor, or AWR, which can measure 17 centimeters (6 inches) in
Continue Reading CNN By Rhea Mogul, Vedika Sud and Sania Farooqui, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” said 56-year-old Jayanti Devi as she attempted to salvage what was left of her belongings
Continue Reading By Rhea Mogul, Vedika Sud and Sania Farooqui, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” said 56-year-old Jayanti Devi as she attempted to salvage what was left of her belongings in
Continue Reading CNN, KSL By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Four astronauts have returned from a six-month stay on the International Space Station, splashing down off the coast of Florida on Monday. The astronauts oversaw research projects and hosted three paying customers aboard the station as NASA seeks to increase the amount of commercial activity in low-Earth
Continue Reading By Amy Simonson and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Nearly two dozen people were injured Monday after a vehicle plowed into the wall of a Houston-area Denny’s restaurant, police in Texas said. Calls started around 11:22 a.m. CT about a vehicle that crashed into the south wall of the restaurant, police in Rosenberg, Texas, said
Continue Reading By Jean Casarez and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — One of the women depicted in drawings done by the self-proclaimed BTK serial killer, Dennis Rader, has possibly been identified, according to a sheriff in Oklahoma. Osage County Sheriff Eddie Virden would not disclose further details on the possible ID of the woman, who was
Continue Reading KAKE By Jean Casarez and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — One of the women depicted in drawings done by the self-proclaimed BTK serial killer, Dennis Rader, has possibly been identified, according to a sheriff in Oklahoma. Osage County Sheriff Eddie Virden would not disclose further details on the possible ID of the woman, who
Continue Reading By Catherine Nicholls (CNN) — The Eritrean Defense Forces committed war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity in Tigray, Ethiopia, immediately before and after signing a ceasefire last year, a new Amnesty International report has alleged. The crimes are said to have happened between October of 2022 and January this year, during an ongoing conflict
Continue Reading CNN By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A suspected drunken driver accidentally called Nebraska law enforcement on himself, leading to his arrest. The man called 911 to report another driver who he thought was driving on the wrong side of the highway, according to a Facebook post from the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s
Continue Reading CNN By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A group of Mississippi hunters have broken the state record for the longest alligator ever captured in the state with a 14-foot-3-inch reptile weighing just over 800 pounds. Hunters Tanner White, Don Woods, Will Thomas and Joey Clark of Red Antler Processing, a game processing and hunting store,
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