Month: August 2025

By Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — From a little garden in New Zealand, comes a lonely snail looking for love. Ned is ying to another mollusc’s yang, but finding a match for him has become a nationwide effort. That is because Ned’s shell spirals left, while almost all other snails have right spiraling shells. It’s

By Laura Sharman, Svitlana Vlasova, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Catherine Nicholls, Betsy Klein Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — European leaders expressed outrage after Kyiv was bombarded by Russia’s second-biggest aerial attack since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with at least 23 people killed, including four children, according to officials. Buildings belonging to the European Union and the British

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Russia and China have conducted their first-ever joint submarine patrol in the Pacific, according to reports in state-run media. The patrol by diesel-electric submarines began in early August, and the Russian sub involved, the Volkhov, covered around 2,000 miles during its voyage from its Vladivostok base, according to a

By Chris Lau and Nectar Gan Hong Kong (CNN) — The judges in the trial of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai on Thursday retired to consider their verdict on three national security charges that could see the 77-year-old pro-democracy firebrand jailed for life. Lai, the outspoken founder of the Apple Daily – a tabloid

By Nectar Gan, Yong Xiong and Gawon Bae, CNN (CNN) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin will be among more than two dozen foreign leaders to attend China’s massive military parade next week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced Thursday. The parade, to be held in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on