There’s nothing quite like exploring the world on its oldest form of transportation. From horseback safaris in Botswana’s Okavango Delta to riding through the landscapes of Cappadocia, Turkey, here are some of the best equine-themed treks across the globe. Okavango Delta, Botswana You may spot crocodiles as you splash through the canals while tracking zebra,
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Sri Lanka’s former defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been elected as the country’s new President, winning 52.2% of the vote, according to the chairman of Sri Lanka’s Election Commission. A record 35 candidates competed to replace outgoing President Maithripala Sirisena, whose term was marred by the Easter bombings and a failed attempt to remove Prime
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(CNN) — Ariana Grande les dijo a sus fanáticos que está “muy enferma” y que podría tener que cancelar su concierto de este domingo. En una publicación de Instagram el sábado, la estrella del pop dijo que su garganta y su cabeza “todavía duelen mucho” y que es difícil respirar durante un espectáculo. Ella dijo
Continue Reading (CNN) — Will.i.am afirmó que él y su equipo fueron víctimas de un incidente racista, cuando un malentendido llevó a una asistente de vuelo a llamar a la policía por el músico. El líder de Black Eyed Peas acudió a Twitter a expresar su frustración y contó que estaba en un vuelo de la aerolínea
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El cuestionado presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, dijo que la dolarización informal es una “válvula de escape” para un sector de la economía venezolana. Este domingo, en una entrevista con la televisora privada Televén, comentó que “ese proceso que llaman de dolarización puede servir para la recuperación y despliegue de las fuerzas
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Legisladores del Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS), del expresidente Evo Morales, convocaron este domingo “a todos los jefes de bancada de la oposición” a instalar el lunes una mesa de diálogo con el fin de pacificar Bolivia y llamar a nuevas elecciones, reportó la oficial Agencia Boliviana de Información (ABI). La convocatoria propone
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Whenever US President Donald Trump turns on Fox News, he’ll usually see a stream of positive coverage. In the United Kingdom, there’s no television equivalent because of rules requiring impartiality and accuracy from broadcasters, particularly during election campaigns. But Prime Minister Boris Johnson does have a cheerleader in print and online — The Daily Telegraph
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EL PASO, Texas — The fiancée of the motorcyclist killed in a collision Sunday morning described him as a family man who put them before himself. 27-year-old Jontrell Ash Bernard died after he was thrown from his motorcycle along Interstate 10, according to El Paso police. ABC-7 was able to contact his fiance, Marcela Rodirguez,
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A man accidentally shot his brother while they were deer hunting in Michigan Saturday. The two men were hunting in Boston Township, about 130 miles northwest of Detroit, when they were looking for a deer that one brother had shot earlier, a release from the Ionia County Sheriff’s Office said. Around 5:30 p.m. they had
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Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index ended up 1.4% Monday, the biggest daily gain in two weeks, continuing a slight rebound after last week’s losses. Although the index closed higher Friday, it slid nearly 4.8% overall last week. That was the Hang Seng’s biggest weekly drop since August. The city has been rattled by violent protests
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Max Verstappen won a brilliant Brazilian Grand Prix as the drama unfolded behind him like an episode of Wacky Races. The Ferraris pressed the self-destruct button, Lewis Hamilton lost his spot on the podium, and there were champagne moments for Pierre Gasly and Carlos Sainz Jr. How did it all happen? Well, with the championship
Continue Reading One of Asia’s most famous tourist attractions is taking a major stand for animals. Following pressure from animal activist groups, Apsara, the management authority for the Angkor Archaeological Park in Siem Reap, Cambodia announced in June 2019 it would ban elephant rides in early 2020. Now, the process has already begun. Local outlet the Khmer
Continue Reading Protesters set fire to the entrance of Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University early Monday in a last ditch attempt to stop riot police from entering, as the siege of the heavily fortified campus entered its second day. The flames followed a night of violence as students hurled petrol bombs at Hong Kong police, who deployed water
Continue Reading A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. This weekend had me thinking about how our political language has changed in the Trump age. Fifteen years ago never talked about “never-Bushies.” Ten years ago, five years ago, we rarely heard the term “pro-Obama.”
Continue Reading All social activities of fraternities at Syracuse University have been suspended for the rest of the fall semester following the latest in a string of incidents involving racism, according to a statement from the university’s chancellor. The last day of the fall semester is December 13. The statement from Chancellor Kent Syverud was posted to
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Details about a gruesome triple homicide at a Massachusetts residence in 2011 that a friend of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev said they took part in were revealed this week in federal court documents. The documents were filed Wednesday in connection with a pending appeal by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tamerlan’s younger brother and Boston bombing co-conspirator,
Continue Reading The Monday morning commute may be difficult in parts of the Northeast. The National Weather Service has issued winter weather advisories for nine states in that region, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Coastal cities like Boston and Providence will mostly experience rain, CNN meteorologist Allison
Continue Reading After her school district went on lockdown during the Santa Clarita school shooting last week, a high school senior put her feelings into words. “I don’t want to live with this fear on my chest,” Jilli Spencer, 17, wrote in a poem. “This guilt. I wasn’t there. I was down the street. Hoping they weren’t
Continue Reading The Washington Department of Ecology said that cleanup of a small crude oil spill in Fidalgo Bay finished early Sunday. “There were no impacts to the shoreline or wildlife,” department spokeswoman Cheryl Ann Bishop said in an email. The spill happened Friday night when a Crowley Maritime barge was transferring 5 million gallons of oil
Continue Reading The Daily Northwestern, the independent student newspaper at Northwestern University, recently wound up in the news for all the wrong reasons. But some good could come out of the controversy. This episode “underscores the need for us to embark on a campaign of media literacy,” says Charles Whitaker, the dean of Northwestern’s prestigious Medill School
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On Nov. 19, one of the most anticipated political books of the year hits store shelves with the publication of “A Warning” by Anonymous. CNN obtained an advance copy and gave it a read. Overall the book is sparse on the revelations it provides, especially given the buildup. Part of that is due to the
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The US Ambassador to the European Union kept several Trump administration officials briefed on his attempts to get Ukraine to launch investigations later discussed in Trump’s July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, emails reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show. The emails reviewed by the Journal show Gordon Sondland — who testified last month
Continue Reading A massive crash sent 19 people to hospitals as thick fog and ice covered a Virginia highway Sunday. The crash happened around 4:30 a.m. on the eastbound lanes of Interstate 64 near the Nelson-Augusta county lines, Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said. “Heavy fog and icy road conditions are to blame,” Geller said. The
Continue Reading Hillary Clinton was aboard an American Airlines flight from New York that suffered a mechanical issue and needed to return to the gate Sunday afternoon, according to a law enforcement source. A separate law enforcement source confirmed Clinton was aboard a plane which experienced a mechanical issue that needed to return to the gate. American
Continue Reading When a teenager dying of cancer said his last wish was a sports car funeral procession, his community did not disappoint him. Alec Ingram, a 14-year-old from Washington, Missouri, died on November 7 after battling cancer for over four years. Alec was diagnosed in 2015 with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. More than
Continue Reading New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday assailed former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s decision to apologize for “stop and frisk” on the verge of a possible 2020 run, casting the decision in an interview with CNN as politically craven and referring to it as a “death bed conversion.” De Blasio, who dropped out of
Continue Reading A Republican member of one of the House committees involved in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump said Sunday that information provided about Trump during a closed-door deposition of a former National Security Council official “is alarming” and “not OK.” “Well, of course, all of that is alarming. As I’ve said from the beginning,
Continue Reading Michael Bloomberg apologized Sunday for the New York Police Department’s use of “stop and frisk,” a policing tactic the former mayor and potential 2020 candidate has repeatedly defended as helping to lower the murder rate during his time in office while critics have slammed the measure as racist because it overwhelmingly impacts men of color.
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El cuerpo diplomático venezolano que se encontraba en Bolivia regresó la madrugada de este domingo a su país, días después de que el gobierno interino de Bolivia anunciara la ruptura de relaciones entre ambas naciones y ordenara la salida de los diplomáticos. De acuerdo con un comunicado emitido por el gobierno del
Continue Reading Tyler Stallings was 4 years old when he first learned that some veterans are homeless. Veterans are part of the Maryland boy’s extended family and he always thought of them as heroes. Homeless veterans didn’t make sense to him. He wanted to do something to help them right away, so he asked his mom if
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