By Lilit Marcus, CNN A collection of treasures from Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctica voyage has been sold at auction in London this week. The timing couldn’t be better, as the wreck of his ship HMS Endurance was finally located in the Weddell Sea earlier this year, 107 years after it sank. The highest priced item (£176,400,
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Searching for a better night’s sleep? A digital app to treat insomnia is an effective alternative to sleeping pills, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in the United Kingdom. The recommendation from NICE last week means that doctors in the UK’s National Health Service can prescribe the
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Josh White pitched seven scoreless innings and Dylan Beavers hit an inside-the-park home run to help California beat UCLA 4-1 on Wednesday night — and into Thursday morning — in the first round of the inaugural Pac-12 Baseball Tournament and win its seventh consecutive game. No. 6 seed Cal (29-25) plays
Continue Reading SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Josh White pitched seven scoreless innings and Dylan Beavers hit an inside-the-park home run to help California beat UCLA 4-1 on Wednesday night — and into Thursday morning — in the first round of the inaugural Pac-12 Baseball Tournament and win its seventh consecutive game. No. 6 seed Cal (29-25) plays
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By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — After days of discussions about Russia’s war in Ukraine, a global food crisis, climate change and other hot-button issues, the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting was set to conclude Thursday with one of the highest-profile guests to journey to Davos: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The yearly
Continue ReadingBy Xiaofei Xu, Wahany Sambo and Nimi Princewill, CNN A hospital fire that killed 11 newborn babies in Senegal may have been caused by an electrical short circuit, the country’s health minister said Thursday. Diouf Sarr told local radio station RFM: “When we heard about it, we called the management to find out what happened.
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Un juez federal de Arkansas sentenció el miércoles a la exestrella de reality shows Josh Duggar a más de 12 años en una prisión federal, según documentos judiciales. El juez federal de distrito Timothy Brooks también sentenció a Duggar a 20 años de libertad supervisada, una multa de US$ 10.000 y se
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By Meera Senthilingam, CNN Postpartum depression (PPD) is estimated to affect more than one in ten women who have a baby and is just one of many mood disorders that a woman can get during pregnancy or in the first year after birth, known as the perinatal period. Yet these conditions, known as perinatal mood
Continue Reading CNN By Meera Senthilingam, CNN Postpartum depression (PPD) is estimated to affect more than one in ten women who have a baby and is just one of many mood disorders that a woman can get during pregnancy or in the first year after birth, known as the perinatal period. Yet these conditions, known as perinatal
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN Español) — La senadora electa de Colombia Piedad Córdoba fue retenida en Honduras este miércoles en vías de investigación luego de que ingresara al país con unos US$ 68.000 que no habrían sido declarados, informó en un comunicado el Instituto Nacional de Migración del país centroamericano. Según el comunicado, Piedad Córdoba dijo que
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy and Lizzy Yee, CNN China has proposed a sweeping regional security deal with a number of Pacific Island nations, according to documents seen by CNN, amid concern from the United States and its allies about Beijing’s expanding reach in the region. The draft proposal sent by China to potential partners in the
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s energy and climate minister says the Group of Seven wealthy nations can lead the way on ending the use of coal. Coal is a heavily polluting fossil fuel that’s responsible for a large chunk of global greenhouse gas emissions. Senior officials from the G-7 countries are
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Stacker ranked all of Clint Eastwood’s films according to their IMDb user rating as of May 2022. Ties were broken by the number of votes.
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Stacker compiled this list of songs of the summer from Billboard’s analysis of past years’ charts dating back to 1958. One hundred points were awarded to songs that charted at #1 for a week and one point to songs that charted at #100.
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Stacker reveals the real names of celebrities.
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Using IMDb ratings, Stacker has compiled a list of the best Emmy-nominated shows of all time.
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AdmissionSight identified the 25 colleges and universities that have produced the most Fulbright students using data from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
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HealthMatch finds that although breast and cervical cancer screenings are the most effective tools for early detection, the U.S. needs to address gaps that discourage preventative screening.
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By Eric Levenson, Holly Yan and Joe Sutton, CNN The 18-year-old gunman who killed 21 people at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, was not confronted by police before he entered the school, a Texas law enforcement official said Thursday, contradicting earlier comments from authorities and raising further questions about the police response to the
Continue Reading SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is visiting Sarajevo to reaffirm the U.K.’s commitment to peace and stability in Bosnia amid growing fears of malign influence from Russia in the ethnically-divided Balkan country. The U.K. Foreign Office said in a statement that Truss’ one-day trip on Thursday will include meeting with top
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