By Ashley Strickland, CNN Total lunar eclipses, a multitude of meteor showers and supermoons will light up the sky in 2022. The new year is sure to be a sky-gazer’s delight with plenty of celestial events on the calendar. There is always a good chance that the International Space Station is flying overhead. And if
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MARIBOR, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenian ski resort Kranjska Gora will host the two women’s World Cup races that were called off in Maribor because of a lack of snow and unfavorable weather forecasts, local officials said Friday. Organizers of the two technical races wrote on the event’s website that FIS is giving “green light for
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong has confirmed its first Omicron cluster, bringing an end to its long streak of zero locally transmitted cases and prompting fears of a wider outbreak as the city prepares to ring in the new year. Two cases of local transmission were detected on Thursday — a 76-year-old and a
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By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africans of all walks of life are paying their respects to Desmond Tutu. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning retired Anglican archbishop’s plain pine casket was on view Friday in St. George’s Anglican Cathedral in Cape Town. Anglican clergy — women and men, Black and
Continue ReadingBy Diksha Madhok and Jill Disis, CNN Business Chinese tech stocks got a big boost in Hong Kong on the last day of the year, but it’s far from enough to make up for what has been a historically tumultuous time for the sector. Shares in tech and internet giants Alibaba, Baidu and Bilibili —
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris, CNN A day after reporting its highest average daily Covid-19 case number, the US shattered the record Thursday, with an average of 355,990 infections reported every day in the past week, according to Johns Hopkins University. As the latest surge sweeps across the US, pushing cases and hospitalizations to unprecedented levels and
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Global shares are mixed after a late slide pulled major indexes into the red on Wall Street, leaving the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average slightly below record highs they set a day earlier. Paris and London were lower while Hong Kong and Shanghai
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Global shares are mixed after a late slide pulled major indexes into the red on Wall Street, leaving the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average slightly below record highs they set a day earlier. Paris and London were lower while Hong Kong and Shanghai
Continue ReadingBy Jill Disis, CNN Business Activity at China’s big factories continued to pick up this month even as the country battles stubborn Covid-19 outbreaks that threaten to hamper production. Manufacturing activity increased to 50.3 in December from 50.1 in November, according to survey data released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics on Friday. It was
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS By Jill Disis, CNN Business Activity at China’s big factories continued to pick up this month even as the country battles stubborn Covid-19 outbreaks that threaten to hamper production. Manufacturing activity increased to 50.3 in December from 50.1 in November, according to survey data released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics on Friday.
Continue Reading PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military says security forces raided two militant hideouts in a former Taliban stronghold, triggering shootings that killed four soldiers and two insurgents. The first raid was carried our in the Tank district in the northwest, killing two militants. In a statement Friday, the military said the second raid was carried
Continue ReadingCNN By Christina Maxouris and Alaa Elassar, CNN The US is ringing in the new year amid a Covid-19 surge experts warn is exploding at unprecedented speed and could alter daily life for many Americans during the first month of 2022. “Omicron is truly everywhere,” Dr. Megan Ranney, a professor of emergency medicine at Brown
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Ritchie, Teele Rebane and Eric Cheung, CNN Business Hong Kong’s flagship airline warned Friday that strict new quarantine measures in the city could lead to “dramatic disruptions” to local supply chains, as the company is forced to curb some passenger and cargo flights. Cathay Pacific’s note of caution came as the Hong Kong
Continue Reading SYDNEY (AP) — New coronavirus infections have soared again in Australia to a record of more than 32,000, just days after surpassing 10,000 for the first time. Experts say the explosion is being driven by the omicron variant and a recent relaxation of virus rules in Sydney and other areas. While hospitalizations and deaths have
Continue Reading HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airlines is suspending cargo flights for a week due to stricter quarantine requirements for air crews, potentially adding to strain on global supply chains. The airline says long-haul flights to Europe, across the Pacific and to Riyadh and Dubai are suspended through Jan. 6. On Friday, Hong
Continue Reading HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airlines is suspending cargo flights for a week due to stricter quarantine requirements for air crews, potentially adding to strain on global supply chains. The airline says long-haul flights to Europe, across the Pacific and to Riyadh and Dubai are suspended through Jan. 6. On Friday, Hong
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By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — At some point near sunset and the start of the fourth quarter of the 108th Rose Bowl, the football fans in Arroyo Seco will rise together in memory of Ty Jordan and Aaron Lowe. Instead of joining in a moment of silence, Utah and Ohio
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — At some point near sunset and the start of the fourth quarter of the 108th Rose Bowl, the football fans in Arroyo Seco will rise together in memory of Ty Jordan and Aaron Lowe. Instead of joining in a moment of silence, Utah and Ohio
Continue Reading By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Colts center Ryan Kelly held nothing back when he returned to the team facility this week. From the deeply personal message for his wife to the grief-stricken long pauses between words, Kelly shed the tough-guy image. Instead. he choked back tears as he explained how
Continue Reading By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer Green Bay’s Matt LaFleur didn’t need much time as a head coach to discover the importance of letting his assistant coaches and players do their jobs without feeling undue restrictions. That approach has the Packers coach on the verge of making NFL history. LaFleur’s 38 regular-season victories match George
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