Month: May 2023

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — “We’re never going to give up.” Those were the words earlier this month from the parents of Madeleine McCann, who vanished as a toddler without a trace while on vacation in Portugal in 2007. Born May 2003, Madeleine’s family were marking her 20th birthday. Now, just weeks later, police

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — New York City is sinking under the collective weight of all of its buildings, a new study has found. This gradual process could spell trouble for a city around which the sea level has been rising more than twice as fast as the global rate — and is projected

By Rob Picheta and Nathan Hodge, CNN (CNN) — The images are arresting: Russian fighters aligned with Ukraine crossing the border into Russia’s Belgorod region, seizing a checkpoint and sowing confusion and anger in Moscow. Residents of the settlements under attack in Russia’s Belgorod region have been resettled in other areas as authorities continue “clearing

By Lindsay Isaac and Jorge Engels, CNN (CNN) — Rolf Harris, the former entertainer and convicted sex offender, has died aged 93, according to the Press Association. The Australian-born TV presenter was sentenced in 2014 at the age of 84, to five years and nine months in prison for a string of indecent assaults against

By Jorge Engels and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — South Wales Police have referred themselves to a police watchdog in the wake of a road incident on Monday that killed two teenage boys and sparked violent protests in the Welsh capital of Cardiff. Riots erupted in the Ely area of the Welsh capital, with protesters

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN London (CNN) — Prince Harry has lost a legal challenge seeking the right to pay for his police protection while in the UK, London’s High Court ruled on Tuesday, in a series of lawsuits the Duke of Sussex is pursuing in the country. The duke was challenging the decision to withdraw

By Tara Subramaniam, CNN (CNN) — If the current pace of global warming goes unchecked, it will push billions of people outside the “climate niche,” the temperatures where humans can flourish, and expose them to dangerously hot conditions, according to a new study published Monday. The study, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, evaluated the

By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — India has defended its decision to host a Group of 20 (G20) meeting in the Himalayan territory of Jammu and Kashmir, despite criticism from rights groups and expected boycotts from a handful of countries. Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, is scheduled to host a tourism meeting

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 400 species only just discovered in Asia’s Greater Mekong region could soon become extinct due to loss of habitat caused by human activity, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) warned in a report published Monday. The discoveries – including an orchid that looks like a “Muppet Show” character –