Iconic designer Pierre Cardin dies at 98
Pierre Cardin, the French designer whose famous name embossed myriad consumer products after his iconic Space Age styles shot him into the fashion stratosphere in the 1960s, has died, the …
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Royal family spends Christmas apart as tumultuous year comes to end
CBS News December 28, 2020, 8:57 AM Royal family spends Christmas apart as tumultuous year comes to end New reports suggest Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are looking to extend …
Archaeologists unearth ancient “snack bar” in Pompeii
Pompeii brought back to life The city of Pompeii was buried in a devastating volcanic eruption in 79 AD, but archaeologists are still uncovering extraordinary structures in the region. On …
Pope Francis gives Christmas blessing in empty square
Pope Francis gives Christmas blessing in empty square There were no crowds in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square on Christmas Day, where normally they gather in their tens of thousands …
Notre Dame choir back for first time since fire for Christmas Eve
Paris — Wearing hard hats and protective suits, members of the choir of Notre Dame Cathedral sang inside the medieval Paris landmark for the first time since last year’s devastating …
China’s massive “Eye of Heaven” telescope now open to international scientists
China’s massive “Eye of Heaven” telescope now open to international scientists Nestled shining and silent in the forested limestone hills of remote southwest China, the world’s biggest single-dish radio telescope …
Sea-level rise from climate change could be worse than projected
Greenland’s disappearing ice sheet Of the many threats from climate change , sea-level rise will most certainly be among the most impactful, making hundreds of thousands of square miles of …
What we know about the new strain of COVID in the U.K.
New COVID-19 strain causes concern Does it spread more easily? Make people sicker? Mean that treatments and vaccines won’t work? Questions are multiplying as fast as new strains of the …
Miss France runner-up targeted by wave of anti-Semitic abuse
Rise in hate crimes in major U.S. cities French prosecutors on Monday opened an investigation into a torrent of anti-Semitic social media messages aimed at the runner-up in the latest …
Fire in ICU unit treating COVID-19 patients kills 9
A fire broke out Saturday at an intensive care unit treating COVID-19 patients in southern Turkey after an oxygen cylinder exploded, killing nine people, the health minister said. The state-run …