Germany offers booster shots to everyone amid ‘very worrying’ surge in cases
By Rob Picheta and Nadine Schmidt, CNN German health officials have warned the country is in the grips of a “very worrying” spike in…
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‘All they’ve done is carry dead bodies out.’ Despair at site of Lagos luxury apartment collapse as families watch rescue effort
By Tamara Qiblawi and Stephanie Busari CNN Families of the victims of Monday’s high-rise building collapse in Lagos have accused the Nigerian…
Continue Reading Generation Climate: How the crisis made young people the adults in the room
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Vanessa Nakate was 21 when deadly floods inundated vast swaths of East Africa in 2018. She didn’t consider herself a…
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E-commerce industries projected to grow the most
Clyde reviewed data from Statista to break down the top five e-commerce industry segments and the forces shaping the future of e-commerce…
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Countries with the lowest income inequality
Stacker spotlights 30 countries with the lowest income inequality based on data from the World Inequality Database and explores contributing…
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50 facts and figures about D-Day
Stacker compiled a list of 50 facts and figures that defined D-Day, using resources like the D-Day Center and the Department of…
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What 25 historic battlefields look like today
These places witnessed brutal fighting, but when the bloodshed stopped, the battlefields remained. Stacker compiled photos to show what they look…
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States where roads are in the worst condition
Uplift Legal Funding identified the states with the lowest percentage of acceptable roads based on 2019 data from the Bureau of Transportation…
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10 gorgeous homes built with alternative materials
UpNest compiled a collection of 10 images showcasing gorgeous homes built with alternative materials, such as straw bales, glass, and shipping…
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How agent-assisted home sales compare with for-sale-by-owner home sales
UpNest compared data from the National Association of Realtors’ 2020 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers to see how sales compare between homes that…
Continue Reading 2 dead in dramatic shootout near upscale Mexican resorts
By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A commando of masked drug gang gunmen stormed ashore at a beach on Mexico’s Caribbean…
Continue Reading 7 takeaways from Day 4 of COP26: 1.8 degrees within reach, a deal on coal, activists request fewer police
By Ivana Kottasová, Amy Cassidy, Ingrid Formanek and Angela Dewan, CNN It was energy day at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow on Thursday…
Continue Reading Generation Climate: How the crisis made young people the adults in the room
Three young climate activists reveal how they got involved in the cause and what they hope politicians at COP26 will do to enact…
Continue Reading First ancient fossil of Homo naledi child found in the Cradle of Humankind
By Ashley Strickland, CNN For hundreds of thousands of years, the fossil of a small child has been hidden in the darkness of South Africa’s…
Continue Reading Europe facing 500,000 more Covid deaths by February, WHO warns
By Rob Picheta and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN Europe is facing a potentially devastating winter that could see half a million people die with Covid-19,…
Continue Reading Element found in our teeth detected for the first time in galaxy 12 billion light-years away
By Ashley Strickland, CNN We truly are made of star stuff, as astronomer Carl Sagan once said. For the first time, astronomers have detected an…
Continue Reading Identifying ‘habitable worlds’ is a top priority for astronomers in the decade ahead
By Ashley Strickland, CNN It’s quite a large to-do list. Over the next decade, scientists aim to unlock the secrets of the universe and…
Continue Reading US mandates vaccines or tests for big companies by Jan. 4
By DAVID KOENIG Associated Press Tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be vaccinated against…
Continue Reading Man charged over abduction of 4-year-old Cleo Smith
Police in Western Australia have released an audio recording of the moment four-year-old Cleo Smith was found. The toddler went missing from a…
Continue Reading Man charged over abduction of 4-year-old Cleo Smith
After two weeks of searching, four-year-old Cleo Smith has been found alive. Officials say a 36-year-old man with no connection to the family is in…
Continue Reading Fireballs may be visible as meteor shower peaks tonight
By Megan Marples, CNN A spectacle of light will shine Thursday evening as the South Taurid meteors shoot across the sky. The meteor shower peaks in…
Continue Reading The world is not adapting fast enough to the climate crisis, UN reports
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The gap is widening between the impacts of the climate crisis and the world’s effort to adapt to them, according to a…
Continue Reading Man charged over abduction of 4-year-old Cleo Smith
By Pauline Lockwood and Rob Picheta, CNN Police in Western Australia have charged a 36-year-old man in relation to the disappearance of 4-year-old…
Continue Reading Humanity needs to ditch coal to save itself. It also needs to keep the lights on.
Austria is one of only three European countries to break its dependency on burning coal for electricity. Yet even with a head start on renewable…
Continue Reading China doubles down on zero-Covid as it battles most widespread outbreak since Wuhan
By Jessie Yeung, CNN China is scrambling to contain its most widespread Covid-19 outbreak since the first wave of infections that began in Wuhan in…
Continue Reading Humanity needs to ditch coal to save itself. It also needs to keep the lights on.
By Angela Dewan, Angus Watson, Lauren Kent and Phil Black, CNN Graphics by Daniel Wolfe and Christopher Hickey Video by Tom Nicholson, Paul Devitt…
Continue Reading Chinese tennis star accuses former top Communist Party leader of sexual assault, triggering blanket censorship
By Nectar Gan and Yong Xiong, CNN A Chinese tennis star’s explosive #MeToo allegation against a former state leader has been muffled by blanket…
Continue Reading Judge says ‘there appears to be intentional discrimination’ in Arbery jury selection, but allows trial to move forward with 1 Black juror
By Devon M. Sayers, Alta Spells and Christina Maxouris, CNN After a long and contentious jury selection process in a coastal Georgia county in…
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Democrat Murphy narrowly re-elected New Jersey governor
TRENTON, New Jersey — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has won re-election over Republican Jack Ciattarelli. Murphy eked out a victory that…
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‘Not true’: Biden says families separated at border under Trump won’t get $450,000
WASHINGTON, DC — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that families separated at the border under the Trump administration’s so-called…
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