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By Sara Spary, CNN An album of recorded birdsong has managed to beat Christmas classics from Mariah Carey and Michael Bublé to make it into the top five of Australia’s music charts, also leapfrogging ABBA and Justin Bieber. “Songs of Disappearance,” which features the call of 53 of Australia’s most threatened bird species, has soared

CNN By Cheryl Ho, CNN Five children died and four suffered serious injuries when they fell 32 feet (10 meters) from a bouncy castle lifted into the air by wind at a school event in Australia on Thursday. Children at Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport, on the north coast of Tasmania, were attending an end-of-school

By Max Foster and Jack Guy, CNN Queen Elizabeth II has canceled a pre-Christmas family lunch as a precaution because of a surge in Covid-19 cases in the United Kingdom, a source at Buckingham Palace told CNN on Thursday. According to the source, the decision is a precautionary one as it is felt the lunch

By Cheryl Ho, CNN Five children died and four suffered serious injuries when they fell 32 feet (10 meters) from a bouncy castle lifted into the air by wind at a school event in Australia on Thursday. Children at Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport, on the north coast of Tasmania, were attending an end-of-school activity

By Jessica Hasbun, CNN Nine people were killed on Wednesday after a private aircraft crashed while making an emergency landing in the Dominican Republic, according to the plane’s operator, Helidosa Aviation Group. Among the victims was Puerto Rican music producer Jose A. Hernandez, better known as “Flow La Movie,” as well as his wife and

Leah Dolan and Megan C. Hills, CNN Another year of masks, “Zoom” face and excessive screen time appears to have knocked the beauty industry off its axis. In 2021, TikTok — the video platform with a track record of catapulting cosmetics to such success that they remain sold out for weeks — was awash with

By Ben Westcott and Caitlin McGee, CNN Australia’s largest state, New South Wales (NSW), has announced its highest number of new Covid-19 cases in three months, with local officials attributing the rise to an outbreak of the highly transmissible Omicron variant. The latest outbreak comes as multiple governments across Australia are moving to relax Covid-19

By Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN So you’ll be home for Christmas? It looks like a lot of people are telling their families “you can plan on me.” New projections say winter holiday travel is about to roar back with a vengeance. AAA estimates more than 109 million Americans will travel over the long

By Paula Newton, CNN Toronto Police have released a video of a person they say is a suspect in the murders of Barry and Honey Sherman, the billionaire couple found murdered in their home in late 2017. “Through our investigation, we have been unable to determine what this individual’s purpose was in the neighborhood. The

By Etant Dupain, CNN At least 71 people have been killed and dozens injured after a tanker transporting gasoline exploded in Cap-Haitien, Haiti’s second largest city on Monday, authorities said. The situation remains “critical,” Deputy Mayor Patrick Almonor said on Tuesday, who also extended an appeal for blood donations. Almonor said the fuel tanker exploded

By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business As you make your way through the soda aisle, you may notice a lot less of the word “diet” than you used to. That’s because some diet sodas are disappearing — or at least, that packaging is gone. Instead you’ll find those beverages under their new branding: zero sugar. “Zero

By Lilit Marcus, CNN One of America’s most popular national parks — Arches National Park in Utah — is rolling out a timed entry system in a bid to prevent overtourism. “By implementing a temporary, timed entry reservation system, our goal is to better spread visitation throughout the day to reduce traffic congestion and visitor

By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN A UN-backed investigation has found that Colombian police were directly responsible for the deaths of 11 people protesting police brutality in September 2020. Announcing the results of the report on Monday, Chief investigator Carlos Negret accused Colombian National Police (PNC) of committing a “massacre.” “The PNC openly dismissed any principle of

By Vasco Cotovio, CNN Anne Sacoolas, the US woman accused of killing a British teenager while driving on the wrong side of the road in England, is expected to face criminal proceedings in the UK early next year, the UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Monday. The 44-year-old is charged with causing 19-year-old Briton Harry

By Reuters Starbucks on Monday apologized and said it would carry out inspections and staff training across all its roughly 5,400 stores in China after a state-backed newspaper said two of its outlets used expired ingredients. The Beijing News newspaper, in what it described as an undercover investigation, said the incidents occurred at two stores