By Madeline Holcombe, CNN When you hear “diet culture,” you probably think of models, movies and magazines. But it’s much too insidiously far reaching to be limited to what we take in from entertainment. Much of the world is entrenched in ideas that controlling food and movement to get closer to an ideal body type
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Cambodia’s foreign minister arrived Monday in Myanmar’s capital Naypyitaw on his mission as a special regional envoy seeking to facilitate peacemaking in the fellow Southeast Asian nation. Myanmar was plunged into an extended violent political crisis after the army seized power last year. Prak Sokhonn is representing
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they now believe that the suspect in a knife attack on a train in November that left four people wounded had an Islamic extremist motive. The attack took place on an ICE high-speed train traveling from Passau, on the Austrian border, to Hamburg on Nov. 6. Authorities said that
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN The Cleveland Browns have defended their signing of embattled quarterback Deshaun Watson, saying they carried out a “comprehensive evaluation” beforehand. The trade of 26-year-old Watson from the Houston Texans was confirmed on Sunday. The quarterback heads to Cleveland along with a fifth round draft pick, while the Texans receive three first
Continue ReadingBy KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday, officials said, setting off a forest fire visible from space in the country’s worst air disaster in nearly a decade. More than 18 hours after communication
Continue ReadingJacopo Prisco, CNN The oldest registered trademark in the United States dates back to 1870, when it was filed by paint manufacturer Averill. Against the backdrop of Chicago, an eagle is depicted holding a paintbrush in its beak. The words “Durable, Beautiful, Economical” appear in a banderole. It has, to modern eyes, a very quaint
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Los actores Mila Kunis y Ashton Kutcher han recaudado más de 30 millones de dólares para los refugiados ucranianos que huyen del país en medio de la actual invasión rusa. La pareja, que saltó a la fama por primera vez en la serie de comedia “That ’70s Show”, prometió anteriormente igualar todas
Continue ReadingBy CNN’s Beijing bureau, Yong Xiong, Lizzy Yee and Wayne Chang, CNN A China Eastern Airlines jetliner carrying 132 people crashed in the mountains in southern China’s Guangxi region on Monday afternoon, according to the country’s Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC). The Boeing 737 was en route from the southwestern city of Kunming to Guangzhou when
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — Socceroos head coach Graham Arnold has been fined 25,000 Australian dollars ($18,500) for taking a walk on a Sydney beach while he was supposed to be self isolating after testing positive for COVID-19. Football Australia confirmed that Arnold had breached New South Wales state COVID-19 isolation protocols after a Sydney radio station
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) –– Un avión de China Eastern Airlines, con 132 personas a bordo, se estrelló en las montañas de la región de Guangxi, en el sur de China, durante la tarde de este lunes, según la Administración de Aviación Civil de China (CAAC). El Boeing 737 viajaba de la ciudad suroccidental de Kunming hacia
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Por segunda vez en más de 60 años, la escurridiza serpiente índigo oriental se ha deslizado en Alabama. El descubrimiento de una serpiente índigo oriental nacida en la naturaleza representa el éxito de un programa intensivo para reintroducir los reptiles en el estado. Una rara serpiente índigo oriental fue encontrada en Alabama.
Continue ReadingThe battle for the strategic Ukrainian port city of Mariupol is raging on as Russia’s war on Ukraine, now in its 26th day, shows no signs of abating. Ukraine has rejected a Russian offer to evacuate its troops from the besieged city and Russian bombardment continues. One refugee says 90% of the city has been
Continue ReadingCNN By Amir Vera and Joe Sutton, CNN While firefighters grapple with wildfires across Texas, a bit of good news emerged Monday: the Big L Fire is now “under control,” Hood County officials said. “It burned more than 11,000 acres. The evacuation order for the City of Lipan has been lifted,” Hood County officials tweeted
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — El juez de la Corte Suprema de EE.UU. Clarence Thomas ingresó en el Hospital Sibley Memorial en Washington, el viernes por la noche, “después de experimentar síntomas similares a los de la gripe”, dijo la oficina de información pública de la corte el domingo por la noche, pero no tiene covid-19. “No
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle, CNN Confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will begin Monday, with Democratic leaders setting a goal of reaching a final Senate vote by early April. If the historic nomination process is successful, Jackson will be the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court.
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN Chinese Indonesian art collector Budi Tek, who was celebrated for forging cultural connections between China and the West, has died in Hong Kong aged 65. The entrepreneur and philanthropist passed away on Friday following “six years of strenuous battle” with pancreatic cancer, according to a statement from Shanghai’s Yuz Museum, which he
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) – La invasión rusa de Ucrania, como era de esperar, sigue siendo la principal noticia de esta semana. Es probable que ese sea el caso mientras continúen la guerra y la devastación. Aún así, hay historias en el frente interno que también han estado causando sensación, tanto desde un ángulo estadístico como
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JAHRA, Kuwait (AP) — Kuwait is ranked each year as among the hottest places on the planet. Last summer, birds dropped dead from the sky and shellfish baked to death in the bay. Yet Kuwait stayed silent as the rest of the region’s wealthy petrostates joined a chorus of nations
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly higher as investors eye the war in Ukraine, inflationary risks and surging energy prices. Benchmarks rose in morning trading in Japan, South Korea, Australia and Hong Kong, but edged lower in Shanghai. The Russian war on Ukraine and Western sanctions on Russia
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly higher as investors eye the war in Ukraine, inflationary risks and surging energy prices. Benchmarks rose in morning trading in Japan, South Korea, Australia and Hong Kong, but edged lower in Shanghai. The Russian war on Ukraine and Western sanctions on Russia
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