- Friday, 28 November 2025
CNN
World's best bar for 2022
Move over London. Step aside, New York. There's a new cosmopolitan cocktail capital: Barcelona is home to Paradiso, the newly crowned world's best bar. For the first time since the World's 50 Best Bars list was created in 2009, a bar outside of New York or London earned the No. 1 spot on the list.
India's first homegrown aircraft carrier puts it among world's naval elites
India joined an elite league of the world's naval powers on Friday, when it commissioned its first domestically built aircraft carrier, the INS Vikrant.
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani becomes world's third richest man
Gautam Adani was already Asia's richest man. Now he's also the world's third richest person, overtaking LVMH (LVMHF) chairman Bernard Arnault and becoming the first Asian person to take that spot, according to Bloomberg and its Billionaires Index.
Asia's largest bird park to close
Jurong Bird Park, one of Singapore's oldest and most iconic attractions, has announced that it will cease operations and shut its doors after more than 50 years.
Why NASA wants to return to the moon before sending humans to Mars
Before landing the first humans on Mars, NASA wants to return to the lunar surface -- but in a way that we've never explored the moon before.
Prince Charles edits special edition of Black British newspaper
The Prince of Wales has guest-edited a special upcoming issue of British African-Caribbean newspaper The Voice to mark its 40-year anniversary. Founded in 1982, the paper is the only national black newspaper operating in the UK.
Thailand has suspended its prime minister. What happens next?
Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has temporarily stepped aside as the country's leader but remains its defence minister, according to a government spokesman.
South Korea records world's lowest fertility rate again
South Korea has broken its own record for the world's lowest fertility rate, according to official figures released, as the country struggles to reverse its years-long trend of declining births.
Japan wants young people to drink more alcohol
The Japanese government has been hit in the pocket by an unusual problem -- its young people aren't drinking enough. Since the pandemic began, bars and other premises selling alcohol have been hit hard by Covid-19 restrictions, causing sales -- and liquor tax revenues -- to plummet in the world's third-largest economy.
Underwater snow reveals new clues about Jupiter's moon Europa
Jupiter's icy moon Europa is an ocean world encased beneath a thick crust of ice -- a place where snow floats upward.
Former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to 6 more years in prison
A court in military-run Myanmar has sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to six more years in prison after convicting her on four extra counts of corruption, state media reported on Tuesday.
Google's 9,000-mile cable could transform life for millions
Equiano is the latest subsea internet cable financed by Google. Starting in Portugal and eventually ending in South Africa, with branches to Nigeria, Togo, the islands of St Helena, and Namibia, the 15,000-kilometer (9,320-mile) cable is designed to deliver high-speed broadband along the west coast of Africa.
Flash floods kill 550 in Pakistan in heaviest rains in decades
Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished southwestern province of Balochistan among the hardest hit, a government agency said.
K2 welcomes a record-breaking number of climbers
The world's second highest mountain, K2 in Pakistan, has welcomed a record-breaking number of climbers this year amid a post-pandemic surge of summit fever.
Nepal has nearly tripled its wild tiger population since 2009
Wild tigers in Nepal have clawed their way back from the brink of extinction. There are now almost three times as many wild tigers in the country as there were in 2009, according to the Nepalese government.
