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Great Barrier Reef (Australia) (AFP) – Australia will strongly oppose a UNESCO plan to list the Great Barrier Reef as "in danger" over its deterioration caused by climate change, the government said Tuesday. The UN body released a draft report on Monday recommending the reef's World Heritage status be downgraded because of its dramatic coral decline.

Media outlets in Hong Kong must not "subvert" the government, the city's leader says, rejecting US criticism of recent action against pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily under a powerful new security law.

James Michael Tyler, who appeared as Gunther in 150 episodes of "Friends," revealed he has been living with prostate cancer since 2018.

The moral panic around critical race theory, an academic legal framework for analyzing structural racism, has sparked a big debate between parents, educators and lawmakers. CNN's Randi Kaye reports.

A spectacular feat of engineering, the man-made island of Palm Jumeirah is 20 years old this year.

Carl Nassib, a defensive lineman with the Las Vegas Raiders, has played in the NFL for five years and said he "agonized over the decision" to announce that he is gay.

Danish fans celebrated in Copenhagen streets following the country's 4-1 win over Russia in the Euro 2020 group-stage match, Monday, as the squad qualified for a play-off stage.

In a report this month, the World Bank predicts Zimbabwe's economy will grow 3.9% this year even as the country sees an alarming rise in poverty levels, especially in urban areas. The report says a record 7.9 million Zimbabweans are “extremely” poor, earning less than 30 U.S. dollars a month.

Anti-lockdown protesters gathered outside Downing Street and the UK Parliament on Monday in a show of discontent at the pushing back of 'Freedom Day' into July.

A gunman is believed to have shot and killed an officer and another person in a shopping district in a Denver suburb Monday before being fatally shot by police, authorities said. (June 21)