By SIBI ARASU and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — India and Pakistan are bracing for the first severe cyclone this year expected to hit their coastal regions later this week. Authorities halted fishing activities, deployed rescue personnel and announced evacuation plans. From the Arabian Sea, Cyclone Biparjoy is aiming at Pakistan’s Sindh
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer PARIS (AP) — Novak Djokovic has returned to No. 1 in the ATP rankings after winning the French Open for a men’s-record 23rd Grand Slam title. He replaces Carlos Alcaraz at the top after beating him in the semifinals in Paris. Djokovic now will add to the record he
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Real Betis players Aitor Ruibal and Borja Iglesias have denounced homophobic insults they received online after carrying purses at a wedding. Ruibal wrote on Twitter about what he called “frustrated attempts by a noisy minority to ridicule me and my teammate Borja Iglesias because of our clothing and its alleged connotation to
Continue ReadingFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Eintracht Frankfurt has appointed former Bayern Munich assistant coach Dino Toppmöller as head coach to replace Oliver Glasner. The Bundesliga club says the 42-year-old Toppmöller will take over on July 1. He will be joined by assistant coach Nélson Morgado. Morgado is arriving from French team Monaco and previously worked with
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Silvio Berlusconi, el extravagante multimillonario y ex primer ministro italiano que una vez se describió a sí mismo como el “Jesucristo de la política”, murió en un hospital de Milán a la edad de 86 años, confirmó este lunes su oficina de prensa. A Berlusconi, que tenía un historial reciente de
Continue ReadingBy 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
Continue ReadingBy 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
Continue ReadingAston Villa midfielder Boubacar Kamara was on his way to his honeymoon trip when he received a late call to play a couple of matches with France. The 23-year-old made a quick decision: postpone the wedding trip and join Les Bleus. Kamara’s wife commented on their eventful Sunday on her Instagram account, saying their vacation
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — With a sense of relief that the conservative Supreme Court did not use a major Alabama redistricting case to further gut the Voting Rights Act, civil rights advocates and election attorneys are preparing for a new flood of redistricting litigation lawsuits challenging political maps – especially
Continue ReadingBy Camila Bernal, Cheri Mossburg and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — A judge denied the pretrial release of Kouri Richins – a Utah widow accused of killing her husband before she authored a children’s book about grief – saying she must remain in custody pending the outcome of her trial due to the “substantial evidence”
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — You sleep for seven to eight hours almost every night, only to feel unrested through the morning or even most of the day. How could you be following a golden rule of sleep so right yet feel so wrong? This discrepancy is often due to a heightened state of
Continue ReadingBy 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
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau (CNN) — Chinese carrier Hainan Airlines has defended imposing weight requirements on flight attendants after reports of the new policy went viral on social media and sparked a public backlash. State media initially reported that the airline, one of the country’s biggest, introduced a new policy in early
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Former Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says police have charged him with providing false evidence in an inquiry into a multi-million-dollar government loss on an investment deal. O’Neill remains a lawmaker in the Pacific island nation’s parliament. He denies the charges lodged on Monday
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian military officials said Monday their troops have retaken another southeastern village from Russian forces, among the first — small — successes in stepped-up counteroffensive operations against Moscow’s more than 15-month invasion of Ukraine. Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar wrote on Telegram that Ukraine’s flag was
Continue ReadingSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Skyscrapers, bridges and other landmarks in South Korea’s capital will be lit up in purple as the country begins celebrating the 10th anniversary of K-pop band BTS. The lights will provide the backdrop for various social media-driven events marking the 2013 debut of the seven-member group, which is now on
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON and COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — UBS says it has completed its takeover of embattled rival Credit Suisse. The announcement comes nearly three months after the Swiss government hastily arranged a rescue deal to combine the country’s two largest banks in a bid to safeguard Switzerland’s reputation as a global
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A major Japanese talent agency has begun an investigation into sexual abuse allegations against its founder. The lawyer heading the probe, Makoto Hayashi, told reporters Monday it won’t address monetary or criminality questions but rather aims to prevent such abuse from happening again. Hayashi said the effort
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The trial has opened of a 23-year-old man who is charged with murder and attempted murder over a shooting in a Danish mall in which three people died. Danish authorities have ruled out terrorism in the July 3, 2022, shooting in the huge Field’s shopping center on the outskirts of Copenhagen. The attacker
Continue ReadingANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — Police in California say a shooting at a birthday party killed an 18-year-old woman and injured six others. The Antioch Police Department responded to reports of a shooting just before 1 a.m. Sunday. Police say there were seven victims after multiple shots were fired after some people arrived uninvited at a
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