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Warren Buffett addressed the economy, SPACs and retail investors at the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting. CNN's Christine Romans breaks down his comments.

It is still a golden era of growth for the hospitality and travel industry in China, despite the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, said Jolyon Bulley, the chief executive officer of InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) Greater China.

Two Navy sailors happened to be at Cabrillo National Monument when a boat authorities suspect was part of a smuggling operation carrying about 30 people tipped over and was destroyed. The two men jumped into the water to save help save the passengers from the wreck.

CNN's Sam Kiley reports from a hospital in New Delhi where eight people, including one doctor, died after the facility ran out of medical oxygen. India has recorded over 18 million cases since the pandemic began – and its health care infrastructure has crumbled under pressure, with hospitals running out of oxygen and medicines.

Renault has unveiled controversial plans to restrict the top speed of its new models to 180 kilometres per hour, following in the footsteps of Volvo in an effort to make roads safer. That's still 50 kilometres per hour above the maximum speed limit on French motorways.

Amid a surge of COVID-19 cases in India and other parts of the world, the United States remains noncommittal on an October 2020 proposal by India and South Africa to waive certain provisions of the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).

Oregon Republican state Rep. Mike Nearman, who was accused of allowing protesters into the closed state Capitol building in December 2020 while lawmakers were debating Covid-19 restrictions, is now facing two misdemeanor charges according to court records.

Prime Minister Janša is intensifying pressure on Slovenia's independent media, raising concerns from the European Union

A Columbus, Ohio, police officer shot and killed a Black teenage girl after she allegedly attempted to cut two females with a knife, according to officials and body camera footage. The bodycam footage has been put in slow motion and blurred by the Columbus Division of Police.

British officials played down a report that an agreement had been reached between Iran, the UK and Washington that would see Tehran receive billions of dollars in return for releasing hostages including British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

While causing immense caseload and death toll, the raging COVID-19 pandemic also prompted emergence and creation of numerous brand-new business models in the United States, and gave birth to mushrooming four million new businesses and start-ups in the hardest-pandemic-hit country in the unprecedented past year.

Three people were killed and more than two dozen others were hospitalized after a boat capsized and broke apart just off the San Diego coast. Officials suspect it was a human smuggling operation. (May 3)