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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Humans originated in Africa, but when exactly our earliest ancestors left the continent and how they spread around the world has been intensely debated by archaeologists. Two fossils unearthed in a cave in northern Laos suggest that Homo sapiens, our own species, was living in the region some 86,000

By Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — A 76-year-old woman who was declared dead at a hospital in Ecuador was found to be alive and knocking on her coffin during her own wake in the city of Babahoyo. “I lifted up the coffin, and her heart was pounding, and her left hand was hitting the coffin…

By Ingrid Formanek, Zahid Mahmood and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — At least 46 people, including 23 children, were killed and six were wounded at a displacement camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to network of observers based in the country. The Kivu Security Tracker said the incident happened in the Djugu

By Catherine Nicholls, Niamh Kennedy and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Three people were killed in a sprawling attack in the central English city of Nottingham on Tuesday, including two students, according to local authorities. A 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, Nottinghamshire Police said. Police were first alerted to an

By Helen Regan and Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — Myanmar’s ruling junta has suspended humanitarian access to western Rakhine state, where more than a million vulnerable people are in urgent need of aid a month after a powerful cyclone devastated the region, the United Nations said. The UN’s humanitarian office (OCHA) said the decision to

By Tim Lister, Josh Pennington and Maria Kostenko, Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Russian and Ukrainian forces are reporting intense fighting along the border of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and southern Zaporizhzhia regions as Kyiv’s military attempts to break through the front lines and recapture territory in an ongoing counteroffensive. The new reports came as Russian

CNN By Stefano Pozzebon, Ruba Alhenawi, Maria Plaza and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — The oldest of four children who survived a plane crash in the Amazon jungle has been praised for her “heroic role” in keeping her siblings alive throughout the ordeal, their grandfather said, as search efforts turn to locating Wilson, a missing

By Stefano Pozzebon, Ruba Alhenawi, Maria Plaza and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — The oldest of four children who survived a plane crash in the Amazon jungle has been praised for her “heroic role” in keeping her siblings alive throughout the ordeal, their grandfather said, as search efforts turn to locating Wilson, a missing search

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — A British woman who used medication to induce an abortion after the United Kingdom’s legally allowed limit has been sentenced to prison for 28 months, the PA Media news agency reported. In a case that sparked calls for an overhaul of reproductive justice laws in the country, the

By Mostafa Salem and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Three British tourists died after a boat in Egypt’s Red Sea caught fire on Sunday, British holiday company Scuba Travel said on Monday. “It is with great regret that we, as Tour Operator, with heavy hearts, must accept that three of our much-valued dive guests, who

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Deep ocean water in the Antarctic is heating up and shrinking, with potentially far-reaching consequences for climate change and deep ocean ecosystems, according to a report. “Antarctic bottom water” is the coldest, saltiest water on the planet. These waters play a crucial role in the ocean’s ability to act

By Saskya Vandoorne, Oliver Briscoe, Joseph Ataman and Aurore Laborie, CNN Paris (CNN) — An 11-year-old British girl was shot dead in Saint-Herbot in Brittany, western France, on Saturday, during a dispute between two neighbors over their gardens, according to the local mayor’s office. The girl’s parents were seriously wounded in the gun attack. Her

By Valentina Di Donato, Barbie Latza Nadeau, Laura Smith-Spark, Peter Wilkinson, Antonia Mortensen and Rob Picheta, CNN Rome (CNN) — Silvio Berlusconi, the flamboyant billionaire and former Italian prime minister who once described himself as the “Jesus Christ of politics,” has died at a Milan hospital at the age of 86, his press office confirmed

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China last year recorded its lowest number of marriages since public records became available, furthering a nearly decade-long decline in matrimony that has coincided with falling birth rates and triggered government concern of a demographic crisis. Some 6.83 million couples married in 2022, according to data released

By Gawon Bae, Yoonjung Seo and Jake Kwon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A British man made it more than halfway up the exterior of the world’s fifth tallest building Monday before he was stopped and handed to police, according to South Korean authorities. The man, in his twenties, was forced to abandon his

CNN By Kathleen Magramo, Jake Kwon and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — The Philippines’ most active volcano began spewing lava and sulfuric gas Sunday, prompting the evacuation of nearly 13,000 residents in the southeast of the country’s main island, authorities said. Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) recommended everyone within a 6-kilometer (3.7-mile) radius

By Brad Lendon, Andrew Carey, Kostan Nechyporenko, Uliana Pavlova and Maria Kostenko, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has lost 16 US-supplied armored vehicles in the past several days, according to open-source intelligence analysis, as the country’s military announced its forces had captured three villages from Russia in an offensive in the eastern Donetsk region. The 16