Back-to-back tornadoes have killed 12 people in central and eastern China and left more than 300 others injured, authorities said on Saturday. Eight people died in the inland city of Wuhan on Friday night and four others in the town of Shengze, about 400 kilometres east in Jiangsu province, local governments said.
The San Diego Zoo welcomed the birth of a female golden takin last month. It was the first of this takin subspecies to ever have been born in the Western Hemisphere. The female calf is named Mei Ling, her name means 'beautiful antelope' in Mandarin. The golden takin is an endangered goat-antelope.
China landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time on Saturday, a technically challenging feat more difficult than a moon landing, in the latest advance for its ambitious goals in space. Plans call for a rover to stay in the lander for a few days of diagnostic tests before rolling down a ramp to explore an icy area of Mars known as Utopia Planitia.
Chelsea manager Emma Hayes says winning the club's first Women's Champions League would be an "incredible achievement" but insists success is also about inspiring the next generation of young women.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) called on Friday for rich nations to delay COVID-19 vaccinations of children and donate doses to lower-income countries, warning that the second year of the pandemic could be deadlier. "I n a handful of rich countries, which bought up the majority of the vaccine supply, lower risk groups are now being vaccinated," WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters from Geneva.
Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel will face Leicester twice in the next three days, once on Saturday at Wembley and once on Tuesday in the league. During the FA cup final pre-match press conference on Friday in London, Tuchel described the games as 'two finals.
A Chinese botanist has devoted her career to saving and cultivating over 1,100 rare and endangered plants and protecting biodiversity in central Hubei Province's Three Gorges Dam area, even risking life and limb.
Swiss health workers busy fighting the pandemic in Geneva University Hospitals are being encouraged to unwind with a computer game that offers not only distraction but also knowledge to battle Covid-19 in real life.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said she is "offended" by some House Republicans who are whitewashing the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. CNN's Manu Raju reports.
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says the nation is “over the hump” on gas shortages following a ransomware cyberattack that forced a shutdown of the nation's largest gasoline pipeline. (May 14)
Melinda Gates, who has filed for divorce from husband Bill Gates, and MacKenzie Scott, who divorced Jeff Bezos in 2019, could be set to become even bigger forces in their multi-billion dollar philanthropies. CNN's Dan Simon reports.
Gas stations with no gas reached 88% in Washington DC, but analysts say panic buying is subsiding, and the pipeline operator says the flow has resumed.
