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By Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Record-breaking rainfall paralyzed much of Hong Kong on Friday, with flash flooding submerging metro stations and trapping drivers on roads, as authorities suspended schools and urged the public to seek safe shelter. Photos and videos showed residents wading through murky brown floodwaters as heavy rain continued to

CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When the Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February 2021, it wasn’t alone. In addition to the Ingenuity helicopter, the rover carried a suite of science instruments designed to search for ancient signs of life. And tucked in its chassis, Percy also had MOXIE — the Mars Oxygen

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Senior NASA officials say that the agency’s Space Launch System — the massive rocket designed to propel its ambitious Artemis program to establish a base on the moon — is “unaffordable,” according to a report Thursday from the US Government Accountability Office. The report, which breaks down SLS program expenditures,

By Brad Lendon and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea claims to have launched a new “Korean-style” tactical nuclear attack submarine that it says heralds “the beginning of a new chapter” for its navy. But analysts say those claims should be taken with a large pinch of salt, with South Korean

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The first experiment to produce oxygen on another planet has come to an end on Mars after exceeding NASA’s initial goals and demonstrating capabilities that could help future astronauts explore the red planet. The microwave-size device called MOXIE, or Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, is on the Perseverance

By Claudia Colliva, Chris Liakos and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Paris (CNN) — France’s highest court on Thursday upheld the government’s ban on students in public schools from wearing the abaya, a long, robe-like garment often worn by Muslim women, in a decision that rights groups warn will lead to more discrimination. “As things stand, the

By Krupskaia Alís and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Mexico seems set to elect its first female president in next year’s election after the country’s leading parties both unveiled women candidates. Ruling party Morena said Wednesday that Claudia Sheinbaum will be its nominee for the 2024 general election. She is set to take on Senator

By Chris Liakos and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — More than 800 people have been rescued over the past two days from severe floods in Greece, local officials said, after extreme rainfall turned streets into deadly rivers, tore down buildings and bridges and left whole villages submerged. The rainstorms also hit neighboring Bulgaria and Turkey,

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — During this summer of dangerous, record-shattering heat almost no one on Earth escaped climate change-fueled temperatures, a new analysis has found. Researchers from climate research group Climate Central mapped the influence of climate change on temperatures in more than 200 countries and territories. They found that between June and

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The inaugural Africa Climate Summit drew to a close on Wednesday, with the host, Kenya’s president William Ruto, saying that a total of $23 billion had been pledged to green projects by governments, investors, development banks and philanthropists. The summit, which focussed on driving green growth and climate finance

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — After completing a historic landing on the lunar surface, putting India in the tiny club of countries that have safely placed a spacecraft on the moon, the Chandrayaan-3 lander is now asleep — resting through the 14-day lunar night before mission controllers attempt to reawaken the spacecraft later this