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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have taken their first glimpse of a sample collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu — and stumbled upon a good bit more than they expected. When they opened the canister containing the sample on September 26, the researchers discovered an abundance of dark, fine-grained material on the inside

By Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — On September 19, the day Azerbaijan began its offensive in the majority Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Marut Vanyan heard an ominous noise in the sky over his hometown. “I’m not a military expert,” Vanyan, a journalist, recalled. “But I heard very, very clearly… the roar above me. I’m sure

By Akanksha Sharma and Sania Farooqui, CNN (CNN) — Five people have died and 23 Indian Army personnel are missing in India’s northeastern state of Sikkim after a cloudburst led to flash floods. The flooding happened in the Teesta River in Lachen valley, Sikkim, due to a “sudden cloudburst” over Lhonak Lake in the northern

By Christian Edwards, Katie Hunt and Ed Upright, CNN (CNN) — The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who worked to discover and develop quantum dots, used in LED lights and TV screens, as well as by surgeons when removing cancer tissue. Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei

By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — Italian authorities were on Wednesday investigating the cause of a horrific bus crash near Venice that killed at least 21 people including two children. A spokesperson for the Italian fire brigade told CNN that authorities had yet to find the cause of Tuesday’s crash in

By Kocha Olarn and Helen Regan, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — A teen suspected of shooting two people dead at an upscale shopping mall in Thailand has been charged with six counts including premeditated murder, police told CNN Wednesday. The 14-year-old boy was arrested on Tuesday shortly after the shooting rampage at the busy Siam

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China appears to have censored a photograph of two Chinese hurdlers embracing after a race because their lane numbers formed an accidental reference to the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. The image captures Lin Yuwei, from lane 6, and Wu Yanni, in lane 4, hugging following the women’s

By Brad Lendon and Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — Western militaries are running out of ammunition to give to Ukraine, NATO and British officials warned Tuesday, as they urged the bloc’s nations to ramp up production to “keep Ukraine in the fight against Russian invaders.” The news of possible ammunition shortfalls comes after money to

By Kathleen Magramo and Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s lunar mission to bring back the first samples ever collected from the moon’s far side is on schedule for next year, officials say, as Beijing ramps up its ambitious plan to send astronauts to the moon this decade and build an international lunar

By Sophia Saifi and Jessie Yeung, CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan, home to more than 1.7 million people who have fled violence in neighboring Afghanistan, is launching a mass deportation of “illegal immigrants,” authorities said Tuesday. In a news conference, caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti announced a November 1 deadline for those residing in

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded in Norway on Friday, as Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine rages on and other flashpoints threaten to ignite across the globe. Given that many efforts to promote peace have grown increasingly frustrated, to some observers this seems an inauspicious time to award

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — The Philippines is investigating the deaths of three Filipino fishermen after they were killed in a collision with a “foreign” vessel in the South China Sea, authorities in the country said on Wednesday. Philippine fishing boat FFB Dearyn was struck at around 4:20 a.m. on Monday near Scarborough Shoal,

By Sharon Braithwaite, Tara John and Hande Atay Alam, CNN (CNN) — At least 21 people were killed, including two children, when a passenger bus plunged from a bridge in Mestre, Italy, near Venice on Tuesday, in what has been described as an “apocalyptic scene.” The bus was traveling from Venice to nearby Marghera and

By Barbie Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck south of Naples, Italy, on Tuesday, just days after the volcanic region saw its strongest earthquake in 40 years, according to Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). Italy’s fire brigade said there was slight damage to buildings in the latest earthquake,

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An annular solar eclipse will make its appearance in the skies over North, Central and South America on October 14, creating a singular spectacle for those in its path — and a rare opportunity for scientists. The dazzling celestial event will allow millions of people to witness “the awe

By Nimi Princewill, Stephanie Busari, Manveena Suri and Jessie Gretener, CNN (CNN) — Concerns over Kenya’s human rights record have cast a shadow over a UN decision that gave Kenya the go ahead to lead an armed multinational force to Haiti amid brutal gang violence in the Caribbean country. For a year, the multinational force, comprising

By Kocha Olarn and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — Police in Thailand arrested a 14-year-old boy after a shooting at a luxury shopping mall in the capital Bangkok on Tuesday left at least two people dead and five others injured, causing terrified shoppers to flee the scene. Video shows crowds of people running

By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Daniel Hodge and Kostyantin Gak, CNN Donetsk region, Ukraine (CNN) — A Ukrainian solider rushes through the front-line in Klishchiivka, eastern Ukraine, as gun and artillery fire erupt around him. Armed with an American-made M16 rifle, he and his unit storm an area that moments before was held by Russian

CNN By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Daniel Hodge and Kostyantin Gak, CNN Donetsk region, Ukraine (CNN) — A Ukrainian solider rushes through the front-line in Klishchiivka, eastern Ukraine, as gun and artillery fire erupt around him. Armed with an American-made M16 rifle, he and his unit storm an area that moments before was held by

By Christian Edwards, Katie Hunt and Ed Upright, CNN (CNN) — The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a team of scientists who created a ground-breaking technique using lasers to understand the extremely rapid movements of electrons, which were previously thought impossible to follow. Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “demonstrated