A British Royal Air Force plane carrying the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge was forced to abandon landing twice in Pakistan due to bad weather on Thursday. The royal couple — and around 40 members of the traveling media — were returning to Islamabad on the converted RAF Voyager after a day of engagements in
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Happy Friday. A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. China’s growth dropped to its lowest level in nearly three decades as the world’s second largest economy continues to feel the pain from its trade conflict with the United States.
Continue Reading Apple CEO Tim Cook met with China’s top regulator this week for a “deep discussion” about a range of issues, according to the Chinese government. The meeting between Cook and China’s chief market regulator, Xiao Yaqing, took place just a few days after the company pulled HKmap, a real-time mapping app used by pro-democracy protesters
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President Donald Trump likes to declare that he has managed to accomplish things that other presidents had tried and failed to achieve. He did it again on Thursday — baffling experts, who said his latest claim made no sense at all. The claim was about his deal with Turkey. The deal calls for Turkey to
Continue Reading Retail and fast food work is notorious for erratic schedules. But new research finds hourly workers of color in the industries have more unpredictable hours and last-minute schedules than their white colleagues. Minority workers, particularly women of color, are “exposed to the most unstable and unpredictable work scheduling practices,” according to a report published Wednesday
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In a society where instant gratification is so highly prized, time is a commodity few can afford. That’s certainly the case in the English Premier League, where managers are often discarded as soon as results begin to suffer. Though just one coach has been fired so far this season — Javi Gracia lost his job
Continue Reading Intel plans to release data on how much its employees are paid, broken down by gender, race and ethnicity, by the end of this year, the company confirmed to CNN Business on Thursday. The disclosure is related to a new requirement by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission mandating that companies with more than 100
Continue Reading In a recent unaired, cut-for-time commercial parody on “Saturday Night Live,” Phoebe Waller-Bridge asks Aidy Bryant for a tampon, but doesn’t want to do the hand-off in their college classroom. Bryant tells her not to worry, because she carries Tampax Secrets: tampons that come wrapped inside “other things you’d rather take out of your bag
Continue Reading Much has changed since South Africa’s shock defeat by Japan at the 2015 Rugby World Cup, but the Springboks’ scars from that day in Brighton have never completely healed. Siya Kolisi, a second-half substitute back then but now the Springboks’ captain, is praying history won’t repeat itself as the two sides meet again on Japanese
Continue Reading Lady Gaga may have sung “Edge of Glory” but it was the edge of the stage that proved her undoing during her latest Enigma show in Las Vegas, when she plummeted backward into the crowd. The singer had invited a fan, Jack, up on stage to dance with her. But as she jumped into his
Continue Reading Renault has told investors to expect weaker sales in 2019, a warning that raises new concerns about the health of the French carmaker after it ousted its second CEO in less than a year. The carmaker said in a statement late on Thursday that it expects revenue to decline by up to 4%, instead of
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A Hong Kong court has ruled against redefining the meaning of marriage that would have allowed same-sex unions and civil partnerships in the city. Hong Kong’s Court of the First Instance ruled on Friday against a woman, known as MK, who complained that the government’s lack of marriage options in Hong Kong violated her constitutional
Continue Reading For more than a century, the secretive imperial palace complex has stood over Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa, closed off to everyone but the country’s leaders and the troops who protected them. Almost hidden from view on a wooded bluff, its forbidding 40-acre compound was unknown even to some of those living beneath it.
Continue Reading Three Muslim families were not allowed to board a New York City ferry after they were told they posed a “security issue,” according to a discrimination complaint filed with the New York City Commission on Human Rights this week. The complaint was filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on behalf of the families,
Continue Reading Kansas City Chiefs players had their heads in their hands. Even some Denver Broncos players took a knee as a mark of respect. Patrick Mahomes’ knee “didn’t even look like a knee,’ according to one teammate, after the NFL’s reigning MVP suffered a freak dislocation. It should have been a night of celebration for the
Continue Reading In July, Bhuwan Ribhu received some very good news. The child labor activist, who works for Indian NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan, had launched a pilot program 15 months prior to match a police database containing photos of all of India’s missing children with another one comprising shots of all the minors living in the country’s
Continue Reading The US and Turkey announced a five-day break in fighting in Northern Syria today. Referred to as a “ceasefire” by the US and as a “pause” by Turkey, the agreement is unclear about how it would be implemented in one of the most complex battlefields on Earth. Here’s what you need to know. The significance
Continue Reading Regular nonstop flights between the east coast of Australia and London or New York could soon become a reality — and in preparation, Australian airline Qantas has announced the first of three test flights will takeoff this Friday. The aim? To see how the human body copes with 19-20 solid hours of air travel. This
Continue Reading When it comes to business travel, astronauts take the cake. The six space scientists and engineers who live and work in the International Space Station are traveling at a speed of five miles per second — orbiting Earth once every 92 minutes. As far as we know, they don’t earn frequent flyer miles, but they
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(CNN) — Los huracanes y los terremotos son lo suficientemente malos por sí solos. Ahora imagínalos combinados. Eso es un ‘stormquake’, un fenómeno recién descubierto por un equipo de investigadores dirigido por Wenyuan Fan, profesor y sismólogo de la Universidad Estatal de Florida. Los hallazgos fueron publicados el lunes en la revista científica Geophysical Research
Continue Reading Te contamos por qué perder peso puede tener consecuencias a largo plazo. Además: ¿qué es el cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación? Conoce cuál es la predicción de Moody’s para la elección de 2020 en EE.UU. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. 1. Pánico en Sinaloa El jueves en la tarde en
Continue Reading Go ahead, pass Go, collect $200. Monopoly has leaped off the board and is now a fully immersive, real-world attraction. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.)
Continue Reading (CNN) — En la batalla entre la afición adolescente por presionar el botón de ‘snooze’ o posponer el reloj despertador y el deseo de los padres de subirlos a un autobús escolar temprano por la mañana, los expertos dicen que la ciencia está cada vez más del lado del posponer. El reloj biológico de los
Continue Reading Two weeks’ worth of testimony in the House impeachment probe paints a much deeper and detailed picture into how the President directed his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to effectively supplant US policy in Ukraine — and to push the country toward investigating the President’s potential 2020 political opponent. The testimony shows that Trump played a
Continue Reading British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he has secured a “great new deal” on Brexit. But the agreement he’s struck with the European Union would erect significant trade barriers for companies operating in the United Kingdom, reduce growth and leave the country poorer. The deal must still be approved by the UK parliament, which will
Continue Reading (CNN) — A medida que envejeces, una mirada en el espejo puede revelar algunas líneas finas, arrugas, manchas y piel flácida. Puedes preocuparte más por el grosor de tu cabello, tus crujientes articulaciones o la pérdida de músculo. MIRA: Vitaminas vía intravenosa, un nuevo método para mejorar la salud Se dice que el colágeno ingerible, el
Continue Reading (CNN) — Metales pesados tóxicos que dañan el desarrollo cerebral de los bebés podrían encontrarse en los alimentos que le das a tus hijos, de acuerdo con una nueva investigación publicada el jueves. Pruebas a 168 alimentos para bebés de los principales fabricantes de EE. UU. encontraron que el 95% contenía plomo, el 73% contenía
Continue Reading Call three friends, jump in the bubble gum pink Jeep, and hop on the Pacific Coast Highway. The Barbie Malibu Dreamhouse is available to rent. It is beachy and dreamy, and it is very, very pink. Better yet? It’s only $60 per night on Airbnb. Panoramic ocean views and glamorous décor bring the plastic playset
Continue Reading A version of this story first appeared in CNN’s Impeachment Watch newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. A stunning admission on Thursday from a top aide to President Donald Trump marked a major moment in the impeachment inquiry. Catch up on all the day’s news here: WH chief of
Continue Reading More than half a million petty criminals will be pardoned in Japan next week to mark the enthronement of Emperor Naruhito, the government announced Friday. However due to extensive damage caused by Typhoon Hagibis, the imperial procession — during which the Emperor and Empress Masako were to be paraded before the public in a Tokyo
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