National-World

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Head lice have been constant, if unwanted, human companions for as long as our species has been around. Evidence of this ancient connection includes a 10,000-year-old louse found on human remains at an archaeological site in Brazil and an inscription on a 3,700-year-old ivory lice comb that might be

By Stephanie Busari and Nimi Princewill, CNN Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) — Nigeria’s Lagos state marked a historic moment by making Africa’s inaugural appearance at the renowned Lord Mayor’s Show in London – an annual procession, steeped in 800 years of tradition, that celebrates the history and commerce of the city. The debut signals the state

By Niamh Kennedy and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Roughly 100 civilians were reportedly killed during a massacre on a village in the West African country of Burkina Faso, the European Union’s diplomatic service said Monday. “Nearly a hundred civilians, including women and children, are reported to have been killed in a massacre in the village

By Hafsa Khalil, CNN (CNN) — NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara marked their first spacewalk this month with a tool bag floating through space. The pair concluded their maintenance work outside the International Space Station (ISS) in six hours and 42 minutes, according to the space agency. The spacewalk on November 1 saw

By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — In the Bardiya region of Nepal, near the western border with India, Bhadai Tharu grew up with tales of tigers. They were not common in the forests around his home. At the turn of the 20th century, more than 100,000 tigers roamed Asia. But by the time Tharu was

By Rebecca Cairns, CNN; video by Hazel Pfeifer, CNN (CNN) — Far from the watchful eyes of the coastguard, Scotland’s waters are home to a growing number of offshore wind farms, alongside their oil and gas rigs – and working on this remote infrastructure brings many risks. Accidents are all too common, and often deadly, says

CNN By Rebecca Cairns, CNN; video by Hazel Pfeifer, CNN (CNN) — Far from the watchful eyes of the coastguard, Scotland’s waters are home to a growing number of offshore wind farms, alongside their oil and gas rigs – and working on this remote infrastructure brings many risks. Accidents are all too common, and often deadly,

By Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak carried out a dramatic Cabinet reshuffle on Monday, firing his divisive home secretary and bringing back former premier David Cameron to the heart of government after a seven-year absence from politics. The hardline Home Secretary Suella Braverman was fired early on Monday

By Kathleen Magramo and Jinky Jorgio, CNN (CNN) — A Philippine court has granted bail for Leila De Lima, one of the most vocal critics of ex-President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody “war on drugs” after being held in police custody for over six years. “I have to rebuild my life. My life that they have tried to destroy,” De Lima

By Hamdi Alkhshali, Jo Shelley, Helen Regan, Abeer Salman and Kareem Khadder, CNN (CNN) — Premature babies at Gaza’s largest hospital are being wrapped in foil and placed next to hot water in a desperate bid to keep them alive in “catastrophic” conditions, the hospital director has warned, as Israeli firepower pounds surrounding streets and

CNN By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Iceland has declared a state of emergency and more than 3,000 residents have been urged to evacuate the small, coastal town of Grindavík as the country’s authorities anticipate the imminent eruption of a volcano in its southwestern peninsula. Scientists monitoring the situation, including those at Iceland’s Met Office,

By Radina Gigova and Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across France on Sunday to call out a sharp rise in antisemitic acts since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. In Paris, an estimated 105,000 demonstrators joined the march, making it the largest mobilization against antisemitism since

By Aishwarya Iyer, Rhea Mogul and Manveena Suri, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — A frantic effort is underway in northern India to rescue dozens of workers trapped after a mountain tunnel they were helping to construct collapsed on Sunday, leaving them confined behind a pile of rubble with little oxygen and water. As many as