Help wanted: $78,000 a year to taste candy while sitting on your couch
By Alexandra Peers, CNN Business A Canadian candy company is offering a very sweet gig. Candy Funhouse, an online retailer of confectionery treats…
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Three women say Spanish body positivity campaign used their images without permission
Amy Woodyatt, CNN Three women who believe their images were used in a Spanish “body positivity” campaign have said their likenesses were…
Continue ReadingVisitors to the world’s tallest tree face $5,000 fines
CNN, KRCR By Lilit Marcus, CNN Hyperion, certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s tallest living tree, is officially off-limits to…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN Hyperion, certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s tallest living tree, is officially off-limits to visitors.…
Continue ReadingForever young, beautiful and scandal-free: The rise of South Korea’s virtual influencers
Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN She’s got more than 130,000 followers on Instagram, where she posts photos of her globetrotting adventures. Her…
Continue ReadingTheir job is saving lives. But can these Argentinian doctors revive a whole Italian village?
By Silvia Marchetti, CNN When dozens of towns across Italy started selling crumbling buildings for the cost of an espresso, people from all over the…
Continue ReadingScientists say temperatures are getting ‘hotter faster’ than their tools can calculate
By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN The UK’s recent heat wave was the Great British Bake Off that no one wanted — and it was made at least 10…
Continue ReadingInflation-exhausted Americans: Let’s just go out for steak
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Inflation is soaring. And yet restaurant-goers are having a love affair with a high-budget item: Steak. In…
Continue Reading‘A summer for every woman’: Spain launches beach body positivity campaign
Jack Guy and Sana Noor Haq, CNN The Spanish government has launched a summer campaign encouraging women of all shapes and sizes to go to the beach.…
Continue ReadingNestlé has kept hiking prices this year
By Anna Cooban, CNN Business Nestlé hiked its prices by 6.5% in the first half of 2022 as it grapples with an “unprecedented” rise in…
Continue ReadingBritish environmental scientist and creator of the Gaia theory James Lovelock dies at 103
By Alex Stambaugh, CNN James Lovelock, the British environmental scientist and creator of the Gaia theory, which hypothesizes Earth acts as a single…
Continue ReadingNicaraguan opposition leader Suazo sentenced to 10 years in prison
By Marlon Sorto, CNN Nicaraguan opposition leader Yubrank Suazo, who participated in protests against the government of President Daniel Ortega in…
Continue ReadingPeru extends visitor capacity at Machu Picchu after tickets sold out
By Daniela Gonzalez-Roman, Karol Suarez and Jose Armijo, CNN After Peru’s Ministry of Culture announced that tickets the country’s most…
Continue ReadingUK sanctions British blogger over videos from Ukraine
By Joseph Ataman The UK government has sanctioned a British blogger over content that it says “destabilizes” Ukraine, according to the…
Continue ReadingWho is Viktor Bout, Russian arms dealer known as the ‘Merchant of Death’, touted for US prisoner swap?
CNN By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN The future of two American citizens detained in Russia could hinge on the release of a convicted Russian arms dealer,…
Continue ReadingWho is Viktor Bout, Russian arms dealer known as the ‘Merchant of Death’, touted for US prisoner swap?
By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN The future of two American citizens detained in Russia could hinge on the release of a convicted Russian arms dealer,…
Continue ReadingPolice identify Saudi sisters found dead in Sydney flat
By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Two Saudi sisters found dead in their Sydney apartment in “unusual” circumstances last month have been…
Continue ReadingLufthansa cancellations impact more than 130,000 passengers
Inke Kappeler, Chris Stern and Alex Stambaugh, CNN More than 1,000 Lufthansa flights have been canceled so far due to this week’s strike…
Continue ReadingThe UK’s hottest day destroyed their homes. They fear it’s a sign of worse ahead
By Hafsa Khalil, CNN Photos by Toby Hancock, CNN The sweltering heat did little to stop 53-year-old Eileen Hilton from topping up her tan last…
Continue ReadingSomerton man mystery ‘solved’ as DNA points to man’s identity, professor claims
By Hilary Whiteman, CNN A professor who has dedicated decades to solving one of Australia’s most enduring mysteries claims he has discovered…
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