Seeing Komodo dragons now costs $250 and tourism workers are striking over it
By Reuters and Lilit Marcus, CNN Hundreds of Indonesian tourism workers were on strike on Tuesday over a hefty hike in ticket prices to see the…
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UK government admits to forcibly deporting Chinese sailors who served the nation in WWII
By Sana Noor Haq, CNN The UK government’s Home Office has admitted for the first time to forcibly deporting Chinese sailors who served in the…
Continue Reading More curbs to air traffic in London and Amsterdam
Rob North and Livvy Doherty, CNN In the latest moves aimed at curbing air travel chaos, Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has extended its summer…
Continue Reading More curbs to air traffic in London and Amsterdam
Long queues, cancellations and disruptions — European travelers are facing unprecedented air travel chaos during the summer. CNN’s Anna Stewart…
Continue Reading Tito’s is trolling canned cocktails with $20 empty cans
Refusing to follow the current ready-to-drink trend, Vodka brand Tito’s is selling $20 empty cans to encourage consumers to make their own canned…
Continue Reading Tito’s is trolling canned cocktails with $20 empty cans
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Basically everyone else is doing it, so you’d think it would be tempting for Tito’s Handmade Vodka to…
Continue Reading Guatemalan authorities raid newspaper offices and detain journalist José Rubén Zamora
By Kiarinna Parisi, David von Blohn, Karol Suarez, and Ana Cucalon, CNN Police in Guatemala City arrested prominent journalist José Rubén Zamora…
Continue Reading CDC adds 3 places to its ‘high’ risk list for Covid-19
By Forrest Brown and Marnie Hunter, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday added three destinations to its…
Continue Reading Help wanted: $78,000 a year to taste candy while sitting on your couch
By Alexandra Peers, CNN Business A Canadian candy company is offering a very sweet gig. Candy Funhouse, an online retailer of confectionery treats…
Continue Reading Three women say Spanish body positivity campaign used their images without permission
Amy Woodyatt, CNN Three women who believe their images were used in a Spanish “body positivity” campaign have said their likenesses were…
Continue Reading Visitors to the world’s tallest tree face $5,000 fines
By Lilit Marcus, CNN Hyperion, certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s tallest living tree, is officially off-limits to visitors.…
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California’s iconic Giant Sequoias, nearly indestructible trees that can live for thousands of years, are under threat from a range of factors…
Continue Reading Forever young, beautiful and scandal-free: The rise of South Korea’s virtual influencers
Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN She’s got more than 130,000 followers on Instagram, where she posts photos of her globetrotting adventures. Her…
Continue Reading Their job is saving lives. But can these Argentinian doctors revive a whole Italian village?
By Silvia Marchetti, CNN When dozens of towns across Italy started selling crumbling buildings for the cost of an espresso, people from all over the…
Continue Reading Scientists say temperatures are getting ‘hotter faster’ than their tools can calculate
By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN The UK’s recent heat wave was the Great British Bake Off that no one wanted — and it was made at least 10…
Continue Reading Inflation-exhausted Americans: Let’s just go out for steak
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Inflation is soaring. And yet restaurant-goers are having a love affair with a high-budget item: Steak. In…
Continue Reading ‘A summer for every woman’: Spain launches beach body positivity campaign
Jack Guy and Sana Noor Haq, CNN The Spanish government has launched a summer campaign encouraging women of all shapes and sizes to go to the beach.…
Continue Reading Nestlé has kept hiking prices this year
By Anna Cooban, CNN Business Nestlé hiked its prices by 6.5% in the first half of 2022 as it grapples with an “unprecedented” rise in…
Continue Reading British environmental scientist and creator of the Gaia theory James Lovelock dies at 103
By Alex Stambaugh, CNN James Lovelock, the British environmental scientist and creator of the Gaia theory, which hypothesizes Earth acts as a single…
Continue Reading Nicaraguan opposition leader Suazo sentenced to 10 years in prison
By Marlon Sorto, CNN Nicaraguan opposition leader Yubrank Suazo, who participated in protests against the government of President Daniel Ortega in…
Continue Reading Peru extends visitor capacity at Machu Picchu after tickets sold out
By Daniela Gonzalez-Roman, Karol Suarez and Jose Armijo, CNN After Peru’s Ministry of Culture announced that tickets the country’s most…
Continue Reading UK sanctions British blogger over videos from Ukraine
By Joseph Ataman The UK government has sanctioned a British blogger over content that it says “destabilizes” Ukraine, according to the…
Continue Reading Who is Viktor Bout, Russian arms dealer known as the ‘Merchant of Death’, touted for US prisoner swap?
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the US has offered convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout in exchange for the release of two Americans…
Continue Reading Who is Viktor Bout, Russian arms dealer known as the ‘Merchant of Death’, touted for US prisoner swap?
By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN The future of two American citizens detained in Russia could hinge on the release of a convicted Russian arms dealer,…
Continue Reading Police identify Saudi sisters found dead in Sydney flat
By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Two Saudi sisters found dead in their Sydney apartment in “unusual” circumstances last month have been…
Continue Reading Lufthansa cancellations impact more than 130,000 passengers
Inke Kappeler, Chris Stern and Alex Stambaugh, CNN More than 1,000 Lufthansa flights have been canceled so far due to this week’s strike…
Continue Reading The UK’s hottest day destroyed their homes. They fear it’s a sign of worse ahead
By Hafsa Khalil, CNN Photos by Toby Hancock, CNN The sweltering heat did little to stop 53-year-old Eileen Hilton from topping up her tan last…
Continue Reading Somerton man mystery ‘solved’ as DNA points to man’s identity, professor claims
By Hilary Whiteman, CNN A professor who has dedicated decades to solving one of Australia’s most enduring mysteries claims he has discovered…
Continue Reading The Pope went to Canada to apologize. For some indigenous school survivors, he triggered more pain
CNN’s Paula Newton speaks with survivors who suffered decades of physical, sexual, and mental abuse in Canadian residential schools with ties to the…
Continue Reading CDC adds 6 places to its ‘high’ risk category for travel, including 2 Central American countries
By Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added six destinations to its “high” risk…
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