Drone sightings, alongside weather conditions, delayed 18 flights and forced a further seven to be diverted at Singapore's Changi Airport Monday evening, according to the country's Civil Aviation Authority.The incident was the second in a week: on the night of…
A top United Nations official has warned of "serious implications for human rights" in parts of Myanmar after the government shut down mobile data networks.According to Telenor, a Norwegian telecoms firm which operates mobile internet services in Myanmar, on June…
Once the dust cleared, it turned out that one of the enduring lessons from the past week occurred at about 22,000 feet.The Iranian downing of an RQ-4A Global Hawk on Thursday is thought to have been the first time one…
It was a dry, sober weekend for a group of neo-Nazis in Germany after police and locals teamed up to strip them of their beer.German police confiscated more than 4,200 liters of beer at a neo-Nazi rock festival last Friday…
Europe is only three days into summer, and Mother Nature is quickly cranking up the heat.A "potentially dangerous" heat wave is forecast to engulf the continent this week.With summer 2018's devastating heat wave and droughts still fresh in the minds…
Life could have found a way to establish on Mars 4.48 billion years ago, according to a new study. That's when gigantic meteorites stopped crashing into the Red Planet and inhibiting life.Life could have thrived between 3.5 billion and 4.2…
Residents of Ahlbach, Germany, were mostly asleep about 4 a.m. Sunday when they were jolted by a sudden blast.Something seemed to have exploded, large enough to feel like an earthquake, and a massive crater in a cornfield was all that…
Two Eurofighter jets crashed in midair in northern Germany on Monday, killing one of the pilots, according to the German air force.The unarmed warplanes were on an "air combat mission" when they collided near the Laage military base in the…
New instruments on telescopes are allowing us to look back in time at the early universe, when it was only a few billion years old, including spectacular rings of light that represent halos around galaxies.Far from the center of each…
NASA's Curiosity rover encountered something new on the Red Planet last week and the results could potentially have implications for life on Mars.The rover's tunable laser spectrometer, called SAM, which stands for Sample Analysis at Mars, detected the largest amount…
Boris Johnson's final rival in the race to become Britain's next prime minister has accused him of being a coward for avoiding public scrutiny, as Johnson remains under pressure over an alleged altercation at the London apartment he shares with…
A top Chinese Foreign Ministry official said Beijing would "not allow" the Hong Kong protests to be brought up at the G20 meeting in Osaka beginning on Thursday.Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Zhang Jun told a press briefing Monday that…
A single, small slug has been blamed for a massive power failure that brought part of Japan's high-speed rail network to a standstill last month.An estimated 12,000 passengers were delayed on May 30, after power was cut on lines operated…
A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck near to Indonesia's Tanimbar islands in Banda Sea Monday, with tremors being felt as far away as northern Australia.The earthquake, which hit at a depth of about 208 kilometers (129 miles), according to the…
Roaring out of the sky, an F-16V fighter jet lands smoothly to rearm and refuel on an unremarkable freeway in rural Taiwan, surrounded by rice paddies.In different circumstances, this could be alarming sight. Taiwan's fighter pilots are trained to land…
Authorities have confirmed that a man from New York died while traveling in the Dominican Republic earlier this month, according to an official with the US State Department.The official confirmed the death in response to questions from CNN about media…
Tens of thousands of Czechs filled Prague's Letna Plain park on Sunday, taking part in what its organizers described as "the biggest protest since the fall of Communism."They were demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Andrej Babis, a controversial politician…
Change, hope, and a new beginning. That's the promise of Istanbul's newly elected mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.His slogan, "Everything will be great" is on everyone's lips in Turkey.Imamoglu's win in the repeat of the mayoral vote invigorates Turkey's fatigued opposition. It…
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The bodies of seven climbers who went missing in the Indian Himalayas late last month were recovered by rescue teams on Sunday, according to a tweet from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police.Eight climbers -- four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and…
The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is removing liquor dispensers from guest room minibars at its resort in Punta Cana, the Dominican Republic, the general manager of the resort told CNN.Hard Rock Hotel and Casino decided last week to remove…
Turkish opposition party appears set to win the rerun of Istanbul's mayoral election, according to unofficial results reported by state news agency Anadolu.With more than 97% of the votes counted, Republican People's Party (CHP) candidate Ekrem Imamoglu was in the…
Hundreds of climate change protesters broke into a huge open cast mine in western Germany Saturday to protest against the country's ongoing dependence on fossil fuels.The activists, many dressed in white overalls, evaded police officers as they crossed fields and…
Ethiopia's army chief of staff, General Seare Mekonnen, has been attacked, the country's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said in a national television address early Sunday.Wearing military fatigues, the Prime Minister did not clarify the army chief's condition or any specifics…
With bright blue eyes, fair skin and bushy brown hair, Peter Petrov doesn't look like a typical Chinese man.That's because Petrov, whose legal name is Dong Desheng, lives in his birthplace of Heilongjiang province and is an ethnic Russian, one…
