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By Anna Cooban, CNN Business Nestlé hiked its prices by 6.5% in the first half of 2022 as it grapples with an “unprecedented” rise in costs. The world’s largest food company raised its prices the most in North America — a 9.8% increase — followed by Latin America at 9.4%, Nestlé said in a statement

By Alex Stambaugh, CNN James Lovelock, the British environmental scientist and creator of the Gaia theory, which hypothesizes Earth acts as a single living organism, has died at the age of 103. Lovelock died on Tuesday “surrounded by his family on his 103rd birthday,” a statement from his family released to the Guardian and shared

By Marlon Sorto, CNN Nicaraguan opposition leader Yubrank Suazo, who participated in protests against the government of President Daniel Ortega in 2018, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH) said Wednesday. The sentence was imposed by Judge Ulisa Tapia Silva at a court in the capital, Managua.

By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN The future of two American citizens detained in Russia could hinge on the release of a convicted Russian arms dealer, nicknamed the “Merchant of Death” by his accusers, whose life story inspired a Hollywood film. Viktor Bout, a former Soviet military officer, is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence in the

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Two Saudi sisters found dead in their Sydney apartment in “unusual” circumstances last month have been identified by police, as authorities appealed for more information. Police discovered the bodies of Asra Abdullah Alsehli, 24, and Amaal Abdullah Alsehli, 23, on June 7, following a concern for welfare report, according to a

Inke Kappeler, Chris Stern and Alex Stambaugh, CNN More than 1,000 Lufthansa flights have been canceled so far due to this week’s strike action, with more than 130,000 passengers impacted. The German airline announced yesterday it would cancel nearly all of its German-based flights in Germany on Wednesday. Given that a strike of ground staff

By Hafsa Khalil, CNN Photos by Toby Hancock, CNN The sweltering heat did little to stop 53-year-old Eileen Hilton from topping up her tan last Tuesday as the UK recorded its highest temperature in history. As the sun beat down on her back garden in Dagenham, east London, the smell of smoke filled the air.

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN A professor who has dedicated decades to solving one of Australia’s most enduring mysteries claims he has discovered the identity of the Somerton man. Derek Abbott, from the University of Adelaide, says the body of a man found on one of the city’s beaches in 1948 belonged to Carl “Charles” Webb,

By Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added six destinations to its “high” risk category for travel on Monday. Two Central American countries — El Salvador and Honduras — received a Level 3, “high” risk designation. Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland and Fiji were also added to

By Hira Humayun, Lindsay Isaac and Paula Newton Victoria McIntosh unfurls a little girl’s white winter coat from her handbag and smooths it out on the table. Her grandmother sewed it for her when she was four years old, she says, before she was sent to Fort Alexander residential school in the 1960s. But a

By Niamh Kennedy The two final candidates in the race to become the UK’s new prime minister, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, have both vowed to expand the government’s controversial Rwanda immigration policy. Former finance minister Rishi Sunak announced his plans to tackle illegal immigration in a nearly 5-minute video posted on Twitter Sunday, during

By Hira Humayun and Karen Smith, CNN Rescuers in the Bahamas have found the bodies of 17 Haitian migrants thought to have died after their vessel capsized in rough seas during a “suspected human smuggling operation,” the country’s leader said. The bodies of 15 females, a male and an infant were found in the water

By Rob Picheta, Livia Borghese and Cecilia Armstrong, CNN Pope Francis departed Rome on Sunday for a week-long trip to Edmonton, Canada, where he’s set to apologize for the Catholic Church’s role in the abuse of Canadian Indigenous children in residential schools. The Vatican has called the trip a “penitential pilgrimage,” and the Pope will