BERLIN (AP) — Officials said Monday that countries have approved the first comprehensive guidelines for judging the value of nature following four years of intense debate. The report was endorsed by 139 countries that are members of the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Its authors hope the guide they’ve drawn
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Twitter slid more than 11% in the first day of trading after billionaire Elon Musk said that he was abandoning his $44 billion bid for the company and the social media platform vowed to challenge Musk in court to uphold the agreement. Twitter is now preparing to
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Roger Federer has dropped out of the ATP rankings entirely for the first time in a quarter-century. And Novak Djokovic has slid four spots to No. 7 a day after winning Wimbledon for the seventh time. Federer had appeared in the singles rankings every week
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business Elon Musk mocked Twitter’s efforts to force him to purchase the company — in a tweet, of course. Early Monday, Musk tweeted four images of him laughing next to captions that read: “They said I couldn’t buy Twitter. Then they wouldn’t disclose bot information. Now they want to force me
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN Official Covid-19 case metrics severely undercount the true number of infections, leaving the United States with a critical blind spot as the most transmissible coronavirus variant yet takes hold. The Omicron offshoot BA.5 became the dominant variant in the US last week, according to data from the US Centers for Disease
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities are considering implementing a health code system in the city that would restrict the movements of those infected with the coronavirus and overseas arrivals, as infections rise again. The system is similar to that of mainland China, in which a red code completely
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag says Cristiano Ronaldo is “not for sale.” The team is in Thailand for a preseason tour but the 37-year-old forward didn’t make the trip due to an unspecified family issue, amid doubts over his future at the club. The new manager says, “We are planning with
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Más de 30 millones de personas están bajo alertas de calor este lunes en el sur y el centro de las Llanuras, el suroeste, el norte de California/sur de Oregón y el Valle de San Joaquín. Las alertas de calor incluyen tanto avisos de altas temperaturas como advertencias de calor
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of couples whose weddings were derailed or scaled back due to the COVID-19 pandemic got a do-over thanks to a New York City landmark. The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts hosted “Celebrate Love: A (Re)Wedding” on Sunday in the pavilion outside the center. Lincoln Center’s website calls it ”a
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — London’s Heathrow Airport has apologized to passengers whose travels have been disrupted by staff shortages. The airport warned that it may ask airlines to cut more flights from their summer schedules to reduce the strain if the chaos persists. Heathrow, Britain’s busiest airport, said service levels have been unacceptable at times in
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — London’s Heathrow Airport has apologized to passengers whose travels have been disrupted by staff shortages. The airport warned that it may ask airlines to cut more flights from their summer schedules to reduce the strain if the chaos persists. Heathrow, Britain’s busiest airport, said service levels have been unacceptable at times in
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — There’s still time to catch Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and bathes the urban canyons in a rosy glow. The last two Manhattanhenge sunsets of 2022 are Monday and Tuesday. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson coined the term in a 1997
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN Drinking alone during adolescence and young adulthood can strongly increase the risk for alcohol abuse later in life, especially if you are a woman, a new study finds. Add that finding to the documented increase in drinking among Americans during the pandemic, and you have a worrisome situation, said lead study
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Candidates to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister are scattering tax-cutting promises to woo their Conservative Party members. They are campaigning as party officials set out rues to narrow the field of almost a dozen candidates to two contenders by next week. Voting starts Wednesday. So
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A shooting at a Kansas City bar where off-duty police officers were working security has left one person dead and five others wounded, authorities said. It happened around 11 p.m. Sunday after a disturbance that started inside the Westport Ale House spilled outside, said Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Bill
Continue ReadingCNN By Tim Lister and Petro Zadorozhnyy, CNN Across Ukraine, in the shimmering heat, one sight is becoming familiar this summer: Combine harvesters sweeping across fields of grain in a race against fast-spreading fires. The conflict’s front lines straddle some of Ukraine’s richest farmland. Whether caused by accident or intention, the fires darkening the summer
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Several hundred shoppers and employees have stood for a minute of silence inside the Copenhagen mall where three people were killed when a gunman opened fired eight days ago. The huge Field’s shopping center reopened Monday for the first time since the shooting. The victims were killed on July 3, by
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — En toda Ucrania, en medio de un calor intenso, hay una imagen que se está volviendo familiar este verano: las cosechadoras barriendo los campos de grano en una carrera contra los incendios que se propagan rápidamente. Las líneas del frente del conflicto se extienden por algunas de las tierras agrícolas
Continue ReadingBy MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Russian missiles struck a key Ukrainian city, Russian President Vladimir Putin expanded a fast-track procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship to all Ukrainians on Monday, another effort to strengthen Moscow’s influence over war-torn Ukraine. Until recently, only residents of Ukraine’s separatist eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions,
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson, CNN Photographs by Taylor Glascock and Kristan Lieb for CNN A stroll through Central Avenue’s tree-lined, cobblestone sidewalks shows the appeal of suburban Highland Park. The boutique stores that dot the street and the banana pancakes at Walker Bros. call out to the casual pedestrian, as does the shaded playground of Sunset
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