National-World

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Ancient humanity was almost wiped out about 900,000 years ago when the global population dwindled to around 1,280 reproducing individuals, according to a new study. What’s more, the population of early human ancestors stayed this small for about 117,000 years. The analysis, published August 31 in the journal Science,

By Chris Liakos, Louise McLoughlin and Brandon Miller, CNN (CNN) — Greece is being lashed with torrential rains which have flooded homes, businesses and roads and left at least one person dead after a wall collapsed in the extreme weather. Hundreds of millimeters of rainfall have been dumped over some areas in the last 24

By Catherine Nicholls and Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — A 10-year-old boy has been rescued near Madrid after spending the night clinging to a tree to escape severe flooding as Storm Dana lashed the country with torrential rains in recent days, killing at least three people. The boy disappeared with his mother, father, and sister

By Melissa Bell, Daria Tarasova-Markina and Pierre Bairin, CNN Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine (CNN) — The T0408 was once a country lane that led peacefully southward through the open fields of Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region, from Orikhiv through Robotyne and on to Tokmak. Now, the men of Ukraine’s 47th Mechanized Brigade have renamed it “the road

By Chris Lau and Jerome Taylor, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kong’s top court has ordered the city’s government to set up a new framework to legally recognize the rights of same-sex couples in a partial victory for LGBTQ activists that stopped short of their demands for full marriage equality. Five judges from Hong

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Invasive species cost the world at least $423 billion every year as they drive plant and animal extinctions, threaten food security and exacerbate environmental catastrophes across the globe, a major new United Nations-backed report has found. Human activity – often through travel or global trade – is spreading these

By Jessie Yeung, Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Hundreds of thousands of teachers are protesting in South Korea after the suspected suicide of a teacher that was widely blamed on the burden on educators in a country notorious for its high-pressure education system. Angry teachers say they face overly

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — With his hands cuffed, Ned Kelly Emeralds scribbles awkwardly on a piece of paper inside a Brisbane courthouse as he hurriedly tries to tell his story after years of immigration detention. It’s 2019, and Emeralds can’t speak, not because guards are waiting outside the meeting room door,

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — A surgical tool the size of a dinner plate was found inside a woman’s abdomen 18 months after her baby was delivered by cesarean section, according to a report by New Zealand’s Health and Disability Commissioner. An Alexis retractor, or AWR, which can measure 17 centimeters (6 inches) in

By Rhea Mogul, Vedika Sud and Sania Farooqui, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” said 56-year-old Jayanti Devi as she attempted to salvage what was left of her belongings in

CNN By Rhea Mogul, Vedika Sud and Sania Farooqui, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” said 56-year-old Jayanti Devi as she attempted to salvage what was left of her belongings