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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business When future generations write about the history of space travel, 2021 may well get its own chapter. “The year of the billionaires,” it might be called. Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson each took supersonic joy rides to the edge of space, finally bringing their competing private-sector spacecraft into operation after
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By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain’s 13-point lead midway through the season is far less comfortable than it appears. Despite a strong summer recruitment drive PSG has been fortunate to lose only once in the French league and relied heavily on individual talent and a strong bench to scrape late
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El lanzamiento del nuevo tren Orient Express La Dolce Vita puede tardar todavía en llegar, pero parece que el esperado servicio merecerá la pena. Se han desvelado imágenes del tren de 11 vagones, que rinde homenaje a la época de “La Dolce Vita” de los años 60, y que revela un
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran and Annie Grayer, CNN Congress has a lengthy to-do list that lawmakers will have to tackle when they return to Washington for the new year after the holiday season. Democrats, who control the White House and hold narrow majorities in the House and Senate, are under growing pressure to deliver on promises
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden regresará a la Casa Blanca después de unas breves vacaciones de invierno y se enfrentará a una serie de obstáculos que pondrán a prueba sus habilidades políticas, diplomáticas y de gestión en un momento difícil para su presidencia. La furiosa pandemia, una crisis con Rusia y la
Continue ReadingBy Anneken Tappe, CNN Business America is finishing the year with decades-high inflation. That doesn’t bode well for 2022. Prices have climbed so high it will take some time for them to come back down to earth. In other words, the uncomfortable inflation numbers of 2021 will likely stay with us well into the New
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business It’s New Year’s Day, and many of us are probably staying cocooned in our homes, contemplating the year ahead. But others among us might need to go about our regular weekly routines, including venturing out to shop for groceries, diapers, treats for the pooch and picking up prescription refills. If
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By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An advertisement by a French automaker has stirred up controversy in Egypt after activists said it promotes sexual harassment in a country where the practice is rampant. The ad by the Egyptian branch of Citroën was released last month and features popular Egyptian singer and actor Amr
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden will return to the White House from an abbreviated winter break facing a set of hurdles that will test his political, diplomatic and management skills at a trying moment for his presidency. The raging pandemic, a crisis with Russia and uncertainty surrounding his prized domestic priorities all await
Continue Reading By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has used his New Year’s Day appearances to encourage people to focus on the good which unites them and to decry violence against women. Thousands of Rome residents and tourists wearing face masks gathered in St. Peter’s Square to hear Francis lay out his
Continue Reading BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of people chanting anti-American slogans have rallied in the Iraqi capital to mark the anniversary of the killing of a powerful Iranian general and a top Iraqi militia leader in a U.S. drone strike. The crowd called on Saturday for the expulsion of remaining American forces from Iraq. The demonstration commemorated
Continue Reading By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Amid a wave of COVID-19 cases driven by the omicron variant, dozens of colleges are making plans to move classes online for at least the first week of the semester. Harvard University is moving classes online for the first three weeks of the new year. The University of Chicago
Continue Reading By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has been remembered at his funeral for his Nobel Peace Prize-earning role in ending South Africa’s apartheid regime of racial oppression and for championing the rights of LGBTQ people. Tutu died last Sunday at age 90. His plain pine
Continue ReadingBy Gawon Bae and Angus Watson, CNN North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has again admitted there is a “food problem” in the country, during a speech which brought an important five-day meeting of his Korean Worker’s Party to a close. The year-end address, summarized by state media outlet KCNA on Saturday, made brief reference
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El lanzamiento del telescopio espacial James Webb fue apenas el principio. Anunciado como el principal observatorio espacial de la NASA de la próxima década, el telescopio se lanzó el día de Navidad, y todavía le queda un camino por recorrer antes de entrar en órbita y observar el universo. La agencia
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — Dos cohetes disparados desde Gaza este sábado por la mañana cayeron en el mar frente a Tel Aviv, dice el ejército israelí. Dada la trayectoria de los cohetes, las sirenas no sonaron y el sistema de defensa aérea Iron Dome no se activó, de acuerdo con el procedimiento normal, agregó un
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Exploding fireworks killed a man in Germany and another in Austria on New Year’s Eve. A 37-year-old man died in Hennef near Germany’s western city of Bonn on Friday night. A 39-year-old was severely injured in the same incident and taken to the hospital. In Austria, a 23-year-old man died southwest of
Continue ReadingCNN By Allison Chinchar and Alaa Elassar, CNN As we ring in the new year, severe storms and flooding will be hitting some of the same areas ravaged by tornadoes just two weeks ago, and some parts of the Midwest will be looking at their biggest snowstorm of the season so far. “Both winter weather
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — Familiares, amigos y dignatarios se reunieron para el funeral de estado oficial del arzobispo Desmond Tutu el día de Año Nuevo en Ciudad del Cabo, culminando una semana de eventos en honor a un hombre considerado durante mucho tiempo como la brújula moral de Sudáfrica. Tutu murió el domingo pasado a
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Betty White wasn’t supposed to play Rose Nylund on “The Golden Girls,” but we are so grateful that she did. White was originally supposed to portray the hot-to-trot widow Blanche Devereaux on the comedy series about four senior women living together in Miami. It ran from 1985 to 1992. The
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