By Sara Spary, Rob Iddiols and Derek Van Dam, CNN Storm Eunice tore down rooftops and trees, crushed cars and sent planes skidding on London’s runways as millions of people across the United Kingdom hunkered down at home to stay out of hurricane-strength winds. The UK Met Office expanded its rare “danger-to-life” weather alert on
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at St. Patrick’s Day, celebrated on March 17 every year. Facts St. Patrick’s Day is the feast day of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. Corned beef and cabbage is a staple at many St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in America. Saint Patrick St. Patrick is called a Christian
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at major ferry and ship sinking disasters throughout history. This timeline is not-all inclusive; various incidents with at least 1,000 fatalities are listed. Death tolls vary by source. Timeline April 27, 1865 – The Mississippi River steamer Sultana explodes and sinks near Memphis, Tennessee, killing between 1,450 and 1,700
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By Tara John and Isabelle Jani Friend, CNN The United States has a booster shot problem. As other nations hurtle ahead in their Covid-19 vaccination programs, lagging uptake in the US of the third vaccine is concerning public health experts. As of Sunday, uptake of the third shot in the United Kingdom (55.4% of the
Continue Reading By Tara John and Isabelle Jani Friend, CNN The United States has a booster shot problem. As other nations hurtle ahead in their Covid-19 vaccination programs, lagging uptake in the US of the third vaccine is concerning public health experts. As of Sunday, uptake of the third shot in the United Kingdom (55.4% of the
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By Sean Lyngaas and Tim Lister, CNN A cyberattack hit the websites of Ukraine’s defense ministry and armed forces, and the websites of two Ukrainian banks on Tuesday, according to Ukrainian government agencies’ statements. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the hacking incident. “It’s too early to attribute” responsibility, Victor Zhora, a
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN As global temperatures steadily rise, our planet may be changing too quickly for some of nature’s most wide-ranging organisms to adapt. Thousands of species of tiny plantlike organisms may evolve too slowly to keep up with Earth’s changes as the climate crisis continues, according to new research. These tiny organisms are
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By Katie Hunt and Ashley Strickland, CNN A rogue rocket expected to collide with the moon on March 4 was wrongly identified as a SpaceX Falcon rocket stage and, instead, is likely from a past Chinese lunar mission, according to NASA. The object now on target to hit the moon was first made public by
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By Dalal Mawad, Anaelle Jonah, Joseph Ataman and Allegra Goodwin, CNN At least seven people, including two children, were killed in an explosion in the village of Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque in France on Monday. The death toll from the blast, which also injured around 30 people, remains “provisional,” according to French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, who told
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By Sana Noor Haq, CNN A new species of crocodile dating back to the Cretaceous period has been discovered in Queensland, Australia, and its last meal was a young dinosaur, scientists say. The fossilized bones of a confractosuchus sauroktonos were excavated in 2010 from a sheep station near the Winton Formation, a geological rock bed
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN “Life will find a way.” Those words are spoken by the fictional Dr. John Hammond in the trailer for “Jurassic World Dominion,” serving as a nod to the upcoming film as it toys with an intriguing and terrifying “what if”: Could long-extinct dinosaurs and humans ever coexist, or would it be
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope is setting up shop while it chills out a million miles from Earth. The observatory shared its first selfie from space after testing its iconic gold mirror and Near Infrared Camera. Webb has been in the process of cooling down and aligning its mirror segments since
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