The first large in-person international travel event to take place since the pandemic took over the world kicked off in Dubai on Sunday. Spreading across nine halls at the centre and sticking to social distancing regulations with a maximum of 11,000 people allowed in the halls at any given time, the Arabian Travel Market is the region's biggest travel and tourism event.
Basketball legend Michael Jordan presented the late Kobe Bryant into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame at a COVID-postponed ceremony in Uncasville, Connecticut, on Saturday. Jordan was chosen to present Bryant posthumously into the Hall of Fame, after the former Los Angeles Lakers star was killed in a helicopter crash in early 2020, along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna.
Hunedoara (Romania) (AFP) – With many people failing to make an online appointment or unable to reach a vaccination centre, a group of Romanian doctors decided to travel to isolated rural areas, going door-to-door to offer people the Covid-19 vaccine.
With football stadia receiving up to 30% of capacity up to a maximum of 5,000 people, fans of Spain's La Liga will be able to attend matches – but with social distancing. As Spain foresees the end of the pandemic, it's a glimpse of recovery after a dramatic year for clubs and football fans alike.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that his company has not sold any bitcoin after earlier appearing to suggest the opposite. CNN's Paul R. La Monica reports.
Metal workers union, Numsa has returned to the bargaining table with Eskom executives, as they continue with they bid for a wage increase.
State prisons across the U.S. have been closing due to budget cuts, declining crime rates and poor treatment of prisoners. Advocates say that repurposing prisons with an emphasis on alternatives to incarceration can help drive reform. (May 17)
A Colorado man who was recently charged with murder in the disappearance of his wife a year ago has also been charged with voter fraud for voting for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election using his wife's mail-in ballot, according to an affidavit.
Protests are being held in Tokyo to support the cancellation of the Olympic Games as the Covid-19 pandemic worsens in the country. Japan has only fully vaccinated about 1% of its population.
Axios reporter Jonathan Swan tells CNN about former President Donald Trump's "off-the-books" bid to remove troops from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Germany and Africa in his final weeks in office after he'd lost the election.
NASA's new telescope has a considerable mission on its hands: to peer deeper into space and further back in time than any spacecraft ever has before. Thirty-one years after the Hubble Space Telescope was sent into low-orbit, the brand new James Webb Space Telescope is undergoing final tests before its launch on October 31st.
The slow vaccine rollout and continuing surge of cases across most Latin American countries has pushed some with the means to travel to the US in order to get their Covid vaccine. CNN's Rafael Romo reports.
