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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Spiders spin silken webs to capture flies and other tiny prey. They’re also trapping a wealth of DNA from the surrounding environment, a hidden resource that Australian scientists said could be used to track endangered animals and monitor ecosystems. Spiderwebs collected from two locations around Western Australia’s Perth —

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the World Cup football (soccer) tournaments. The World Cup is organized by FIFA, the Federation Internationale de Football Association. Men’s and women’s tournaments are held every four years. July 20-August 20, 2023 – The Women’s World Cup takes place in Australia and New Zealand. Spain defeats

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Phone companies are shifting away from copper landlines in a sweeping move that will most likely impact people over age 65 and small business owners. Consumers who love their landlines will eventually have to decide whether to hang up on their service or potentially face higher costs. Here’s

By Rob Picheta, Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer and will step back from public-facing duties while he undergoes treatment, Buckingham Palace announced Monday. The update came after Charles, 75, attended a London hospital for a corrective procedure for an enlarged prostate last

By Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, CNN (CNN) — A political crisis is looming in Senegal after presidential polls due to be held this month were postponed, triggering protests and a mobile internet shutdown in the country. The news of the election delay, which came as official campaigning for the February 25 elections was due

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Using sponges collected off the coast of Puerto Rico in the eastern Caribbean, scientists have calculated 300 years of ocean temperatures and concluded the world has already overshot one crucial global warming limit and is speeding toward another. These findings, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, are alarming but

By Jenna Schnuer, CNN (CNN) — Tardigrades, also known as water bears, commonly survive in some of Earth’s most challenging environments. The microscopic animals are so extraordinary that they have even traveled to the International Space Station for research. When the going gets rough, the astonishingly hardy creatures are capable of entering a form of

By Pierre Meilhan and Andrew Carey, CNN (CNN) — President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is considering replacing many of Ukraine’s leaders, including the head of the military, to “reset” the country’s path nearly two years since the full-scale Russian invasion. In an interview with Italian news outlet RAI published on Sunday, Zelensky said that “a

By David Shortell, Stefano Pozzebon and Martin Goillandeau, CNN (CNN) — El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele is headed for what appears to be a landslide victory in the presidential election, with more than 70% of the votes counted as of Monday, according to preliminary results from the country’s Supreme Electoral Court (TSE). His party is enjoying a

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Lowitja O’Donoghue, one of the most respected and influential Aboriginal activists in Australian history, has died at age 91. O’Donoghue, who passed away surrounded by her family on Sunday in Adelaide, dedicated her life to fighting for the health and rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. She

By Chris Liakos and Laura Paddison, CNN Paris (CNN) — Parisians voted in favor of tripling the parking costs for SUVs on Sunday, following a proposal by the Paris mayor’s office, as the city aims to cut air pollution and tackle the climate crisis. Citizens were asked to decide whether there should be a specific

By Angus Watson and Nectar Gan, CNN Sydney (CNN) — A Chinese-Australian writer has received a suspended death penalty in China, five years after he was detained on espionage charges, according to Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong. Yang Hengjun, an Australian citizen and democracy activist born in China, was sentenced Monday by a court in

By Lauren Izso, brahim Dahman and Ibrahim Hazboun, CNN Tel Aviv (CNN) — A video obtained by CNN shows two young ultra-Orthodox men spitting at, swearing at and insulting a Christian priest near the Zion Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday evening. Natalie Amiri, a correspondent for German TV network ARD, was interviewing Father Nikodemus Schnabel when the incident occurred, and

By Ivana Kottasová and Adi Koplewitz, CNN (CNN) — Amos Shani Atzmon says he doesn’t blame Palestinians in Gaza for hating Israel right now. “They have really good reasons. When you see cities on fire and are getting bombed … I had one close friend killed in Gaza and I am thinking about the people

By David Shortell and Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — Vote counting is underway after polls closed Sunday in El Salvador, where the strongman president Nayib Bukele is expected to easily win a second term amid a dramatic turnaround in the country’s once-sky high levels of violence. Bukele, 42, faced little in the way of organized

CNN, YOUTUBE, GOBIERNO DE CHILE, BOMBEROS DE CHILE, AFPTV, YOUTUBE/GOBIERNO DE CHILE By Heather Chen, Marlon Sorto, Omar Fajardo, Michael Rio, Juan Paz and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — At least 64 people have been killed in Chile as forest fires rage throughout the country, with authorities warning the death toll is likely to rise.

By Maria Kostenko and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — At least 28 have been killed in an attack on a building in the town of Lysychansk in the Russian-occupied region of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, the region’s Moscow-installed head said Sunday. In a statement on Telegram, the head of self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic Leonid Pasechnik said emergency services

Essay by Thomas Lake, CNN (CNN) — Facebook turns 20 years old today, and if you don’t like it, I’m sure you have your reasons. The numerous scandals. The loss of privacy. The time it drains away from other, better activities. And on and on. But I’ve been thinking about the role Facebook has played

CNN Essay by Thomas Lake, CNN (CNN) — Facebook turns 20 years old today, and if you don’t like it, I’m sure you have your reasons. The numerous scandals. The loss of privacy. The time it drains away from other, better activities. And on and on. But I’ve been thinking about the role Facebook has

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — When wildfire ripped through Hawaii’s Maui last August, the impact was devastating: a whole town reduced to ashes, more than 100 lives lost. The inferno was described as the “largest natural disaster in state history.” But some on Instagram suggested, without evidence, there was something much more nefarious at