Month: November 2019

Astronomers have uncovered increasing evidence that some bodies in our solar system, like Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus, are actually ocean worlds. And those oceans could potentially host life — even if they formed in a way that is completely different from what we know about similar bodies of water on Earth. To

In a small overcrowded classroom in Pwani village, rural Kenya, Peter Tabichi teaches his students science. Born in Kiisi, 37-year-old Tabichi is from a family full of teachers. In March, he won the Varkey Foundation 2019 Global Teacher Prize for his achievements in the remote and overpopulated Keriko Mixed Day Secondary school where he teaches

The nominations for this year’s Grammy Awards were announced yesterday. Debate, complain or gloat accordingly. 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.) 1. Impeachment investigation It seems

This story was originally published in the November 21 edition of CNN’s Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Sign up here to receive it every weekday morning. That almighty crash you heard coming from the direction of the United States was the implosion of President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense.

An Illinois student is facing a hate crime charge after he placed a photo of a black classmate on Craigslist with the caption “slave for sale,” authorities said. The 14-year-old suspect has not been identified because he’s a juvenile. He’s been charged with two counts of committing a hate crime and one count of disorderly

K-pop megastars BTS will have to serve their compulsory military service, after South Korea’s Defense Ministry announced that it would not be issuing a change to its exemption rules. South Korea has compulsory conscription, and almost all healthy men are required to serve time in the army. Top artists, musicians and sports players can get

The original Gerber baby with sparkling eyes and a cherubic face is all grown up — with a full head of white hair and the same contagious smile. And that iconic baby, Ann Turner Cook, just turned 93 on Wednesday. “Happy birthday to the OG — that’s Original Gerber — baby, Ann Turner Cook!” the

Chinese officials and state media have reacted with fury to the almost-unanimous passage of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act by the US House of Representatives on Wednesday. Though the bill has yet to go before US President Donald Trump for consideration, China wasted little time in condemning the vote, with the state-owned

An off-duty Indiana deputy constable has been fired, police say, after he was shown on video hassling two African American shoppers for their identification while repeatedly refusing to identify himself or provide details on why he was stopping them. Seventeen minutes of the November 12 interaction outside the Nordstrom Rack in Indianapolis’ Rivers Edge shopping