Standing tall over pretty much every airport in the world, a reassuring presence reminding us that planes are being guided safely along set paths, is the air traffic control tower. But not at Sweden’s new Scandinavian Mountains Airport. It’s one of the first airports in the world to pioneer new remote air traffic control technology,
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He’s 24 years old. He parties with Rihanna and Bella Hadid. He watches basketball games with Yao Ming. And on Tuesday, he became a billionaire. Eric Tse, who recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s prestigious Wharton School of Finance, was gifted about $3.88 billion in his family company’s shares on Tuesday. Tse’s parents are
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(CNN) — El incendio de Old Water, en San Bernardino, California, ha consumido al menos 30,4 hectáreas en ese condado, según dijo Zach Behrens, de los bomberos de California, a la afiliada de CNN, KTLA. Hasta el momento el fuego no ha sido contenido. Los bomberos en el condado de San Bernardino están luchando contra
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The tornadoes that tore through northern Texas on Sunday will be the costliest tornado outbreak in Texas history, according to the Insurance Council of Texas. That historic bill is expected to be about $2 billion for the damage caused by the outbreak of at least nine tornadoes in northern Texas, council spokeswoman Camille Garcia told
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During a speech on American energy in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, President Donald Trump ticked through his usual issues before making an unusual remark about his long-promised border wall. “We’re building a wall on the border of New Mexico. And we’re building a wall in Colorado,” Trump said. Colorado, located directly north of New Mexico, is
Continue Reading Hong Kong is a global financial capital, a haven for foodies — and also a place where it can be more expensive to keep a car than to own a home. Case in point: on October 24, businessman Johnny Cheung reportedly sold a 135-square-foot parking space for a whopping $969,000 to an as-yet-undentified buyer, according
Continue Reading Archaeologists unearthed two 500-year-old skeletons of a woman and child underneath the Tower of London’s chapel, the curator of the Historic Royal Palaces announced. The Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula is known as the burial place for famous Tower prisoners, including three queens of England: Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard and Jane Grey. All
Continue Reading Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun made no concrete concessions in his first public address since nationwide protests erupted against the country’s political elites a week ago, as his speech was met with jeers from demonstrators. Calls for the government’s resignation have grown since protests engulfed Lebanon on October 17. But officials have argued that the nation
Continue Reading In the Roaring ’20s, jazz raged, glamor thrived, and consumerism reigned supreme. That is, until October 1929, when the booming market took a swift nosedive, flinging the American public into a panic. It began on Thursday, October 24 — known as Black Thursday — when almost 13 million stock shares were traded, kicking off the
Continue Reading The Florida Senate on Wednesday voted to officially remove Scott Israel from his elected position as the Broward County sheriff. The 25-15 vote finalizes Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order suspending Israel from the position due to allegations of neglect of duty and failures in his department’s responses to mass shootings in 2017 at the Fort
Continue Reading Australia was supposed to have held the world’s first climate election. In the end, Canada beat it to the punch. Justin Trudeau’s win this week did not give him a governing majority. But it did issue an overwhelming mandate for more aggressive policy measures to save the planet. “We are seeing two-thirds of Canadians voting
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Nokia is struggling to keep pace with its rivals in the race to 5G. The Finnish telecoms equipment maker on Thursday cut its profit outlook for this year and next, and scrapped dividend payments. It warned investors of slumping orders in China and intense competition for 5G sales. The barrage of negative news sent shares
Continue Reading The grounding of the Boeing 737 Max will cost American and Southwest airlines at least $1 billion between them, the airlines reported Thursday. And that price tag is expected to climb. Southwest said the seven-month grounding cost it $435 million through the end of September. It has 31 of the troubled jets, more than any
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La Asamblea Nacional Constituyente (ANC) de Venezuela aprobó este martes el allanamiento de la inmunidad parlamentaria al diputado de la Asamblea Nacional (AN) Juan Pablo Guanipa por su supuesta participación en el levantamiento cívico-militar del 30 de abril. Según la estatal VTV, la ANC “autorizó al Poder Judicial para dar continuidad a
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In a potentially groundbreaking move, the women’s world squash champion will win more money than her male counterpart this year. This week, the world’s best female squash players will compete for a first prize of $48,640 out of a purse of $430,000 at the CIB PSA Women’s World Championship in the shadow of the Great
Continue Reading Some of the world’s biggest soccer clubs will travel to China in 2021 after the country was announced as host of the first expanded edition of the Club World Cup. The competition, which currently features seven teams — the winner from each confederation’s major continental tournament — will be expanded to 24 teams for the
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President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense has come to this. His Republican shock troops storm secure hearing rooms, he blasts Republican doubters as “human scum” and his aides slam diplomats who testify about his alleged abuses of power as “radical bureaucrats” at war with the Constitution. Yet neither Trump nor his White House has come up
Continue Reading Conor McGregor says he will make his long-awaited comeback to UFC on January 18, 2020. The 31-year-old has been out of action since 2018 when he was defeated by Khabib Nurmagomedov, but he says he will return at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. McGregor refused to disclose the name of his opponent. “As
Continue Reading President Donald Trump said in a speech Wednesday morning that the ISIS prisoners who escaped in Syria have been “largely recaptured.” His anti-ISIS envoy, James Jeffrey, testified about an hour earlier that he does not know the whereabouts of the escaped prisoners. “We do not know where they are,” Jeffrey, who serves as both Special
Continue Reading Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota is the latest candidate to qualify for the next Democratic presidential debate in November after receiving 3% in a new Quinnipiac University poll out Thursday. The fifth Democratic presidential primary debate will be held on Nov. 20 in Georgia and co-hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post. Klobuchar had reached
Continue Reading Most football fans would agree a raucous atmosphere is conducive to the thrill of watching their team play. Which is why German soccer club Freiburg received a shock earlier this week after it was told it would not be allowed to host night matches at its brand new $85 million stadium because of fears over
Continue Reading Happy Thursday. A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. Every earnings season, companies score some surprise wins and unfortunate losses. Major stock moves are never completely off the table — and the past 24 hours have been a big
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Students at Jacksboro Elementary School will have food to eat for the next year thanks to Jennifer Lopez and her fiancé Alex Rodriguez. The pair stepped up with a generous donation after being touched by Jacksboro Elementary School teacher Brooke Goins emotional Facebook post about having to buy a student food which went viral. On
Continue Reading In the last few months, the Venice authorities have had to deal with tourists swimming in the canals, headbutting gondoliers and brewing a pot of coffee by the Rialto Bridge (pictured above). And while peak visitor season may be dying down, bad tourist behavior is continuing to blight the Italian city. The latest incident: a
Continue Reading Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has continued his ongoing spat with fellow player Casper Ruud in an explosive tweet Thursday. Kyrgios labeled the Norwegian “boring” in response to comments made by Ruud about the pair’s first meeting at this year’s Italian Open, in which the Australian was disqualified for throwing a chair in rage. Ruud,
Continue Reading Attorneys for Carlos Ghosn are asking the Tokyo District Court to throw out charges against the former auto titan, citing “illegal prosecutorial misconduct.” Ghosn’s lawyers said in a statement Thursday that Tokyo prosecutors formed “a secret task force” with Nissan executives and government officials who “colluded” to oust him from the global auto alliance he
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Se inició una investigación de asesinato después de que se encontraron 39 cuerpos en un camión en Essex, sureste de Inglaterra, en la mañana del miércoles, dijo la policía. Un hombre de Irlanda del Norte de 25 años ha sido arrestado. Un concejal local lo identificó como Morris Robinson. La policía cree
Continue Reading Pete Buttigieg is done waiting. After rising from relative obscurity earlier this year, the South Bend, Indiana, mayor has found his campaign steadily atop the second tier candidates in the 2020 Democratic primary, but consistently unable to break into the top tier with former Vice President Joe Biden, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Sen.
Continue Reading The demonstrations seemingly began with a single spark. In Chile it was a hike in metro fares. In Lebanon it was a tax on WhatsApp calls. In Hong Kong it was a proposed extradition bill. Now those flickers have ignited wider protest movements, lifting the lid on deeper inequalities, frustrations and lack of autonomy that
Continue Reading Olivia Gant was a local celebrity, a terminally ill 7-year-old who spent her final months riding along with police and firefighters and taking on criminals at a Denver-area school as “the bat princess.” But it was all part of a lie, prosecutors say. The girl was never terminally ill; it was her mother who killed
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