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By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN As many as 23 people have been killed in clashes between rival guerrilla groups in Colombia’s northern Arauca area, according to a spokesperson from the Attorney General’s office. “We are proceeding with the preliminary figure of 23 victims, but the information is still not [fully] clear. It’s very hard to enter

By Marcos Moreno and Jack Guy, CNN Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was admitted to a hospital early Monday morning with a blockage in his intestine. Bolsonaro is suffering an “intestinal subocclusion,” a statement from the Vila Nova Star Hospital in São Paulo said. It’s the latest medical issue linked to a 2018 incident in which

By Kris Fordham, CNN Though 2021 was not exactly the year of jet-setting travel that we’d hoped for, we have our fingers crossed for 2022. From cool urban hideaways in Oslo, Sydney and New York to far-flung island escapes in Mozambique, Indonesia and the Maldives, there’s an exciting array of hotels opening across the world.

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN Footprints discovered on a beach in Wales are believed to have been made by an early dinosaur more than 200 million years ago, experts say. Paleontologists at London’s Natural History Museum said the footprints, which date back to the Triassic period, were thought to belong to a very early sauropod

By Kara Fox, Ryan Prior and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Leading British Covid-19 experts have joined the likes of James Bond, Tony Blair and Emma Raducanu in receiving awards in the Queen’s New Year’s honors list. England’s Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty and deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam are to be knighted for

By Andrew Oglesby, CNN New Year’s Eve might find most people glued to their television screens waiting for an orb to descend in the heart of New York City’s Times Square, but that’s not my plan. My mother and I have been counting down the days for season four of Netflix’s “Cobra Kai” to drop

By Lilit Marcus, CNN One of the world’s most famous clocks is returning to service in time to ring in the new year. Big Ben last bonged regularly on August 21, 2017, before undergoing an intensive, much-needed repair project. The Cumbria Clock Company, located in England’s Lake District, took on the task of cleaning the

Jeevan Ravindran, CNN A Māori journalist has made history in New Zealand by becoming the first person with traditional facial markings to host a primetime news program on national television. Oriini Kaipara made headlines worldwide after hosting her first 6 p.m. bulletin for Newshub on the TV channel Three, with many lauding the milestone as

By Radina Gigova and Jack Guy, CNN The Dean of Westminster personally appealed to Buckingham Palace to allow British star Elton John to sing a version of his hit song “Candle In The Wind” at the funeral of Princess Diana, according to newly released government files. Papers released by the UK National Archives suggest there

By Flora Charner, Susannah Cullinane and Vasco Cotovio, CNN Heavy flooding has left at least 18 people dead and more than 280 injured in the northeast region of Brazil, officials say. The floods have affected nearly 40 cities throughout the state of Bahia, Gov. Rui Costa told reporters in the city of Ilheus, one of

By Ivana Kottasová and Arnaud Siad, CNN An armed intruder was arrested in the grounds of Windsor Castle where Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and some members of her family were spending Christmas, Thames Valley Police said on Saturday. A 19-year-old man from Southampton who was in possession of “an offensive weapon” was captured shortly after