The eléctricos as they're known locally provide clean, efficient and accessible transport for Lisbon dwellers and tourists. Now city authorities are eyeing up the 100-year-old iconic streetcars in an effort to reach a 2050 climate-neutrality target set by the European Union.
After almost 50 days of calm, Mount Etna has once again awoken, spewing fountains of lava and dark columns of ash into the sky above Catania from its southeast crater early on Wednesday morning.
Diu (India) (AFP) – At least 24 people have died and almost 100 more are missing after Cyclone Tauktae slammed into western India, compounding the country's woes as it battles a devastating coronavirus surge.
Unlike many of its EU partners, Italy still does not have laws to punish homophobic hate crimes. But now a law proposed by Alessandro Zan, an MP with the Democratic party, has been passed by the lower house and will now go to the Senate for approval.
More rounds of rain as lines of storms continue to push across southeast Texas into Louisiana. CNN Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has the details.
Dearborn (United States) (AFP) – "China will not win" the electric auto industry race, US Joe Biden says as he visits the Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center, a facility that produces electric cars in Dearborn, Michigan.
Hong Kong, a city of 7.5 million, has secured 22.5 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. But unused doses pile up in Hong Kong as vaccines are in high demand elsewhere where infections are surging. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout talks to some of the city's residents who refuse to take the jab.
Dearborn (United States) (AFP) – US President Joe Biden puts an electric truck through its paces during a visit to the Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Michigan. Before hitting the accelerator, Biden declined to take one reporter's question about the conflict in the Middle East.
Kajaki Dam (Afghanistan) (AFP) – In the heart of territory under siege from the Taliban, one of Afghanistan's most important hydroelectric dams is at the centre of a power struggle that symbolises the battle between the government and insurgents.
The New York attorney general office's investigation into the Trump Organization, which has been underway since 2019, will also continue as an ongoing civil probe, but the office recently informed Trump Organization officials of the criminal component.
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.
An overpass carrying a subway train has collapsed in Mexico City, killing 15 people and injuring at least 70, according to local government officials.
