Herat, Afghanistan (CNN) — As we stroll down a dusty back street in Herat, Afghanistan’s third-biggest city, a high gate made from sheets of rusted corrugated iron and a door that’s bolted shut confronts us. On the other side of this fortress-like barrier we can hear children’s voices and playful laughter. When we knock the voices fall silent and a young man comes to the gate. He asks for our names […]
Earlier this month during Holi, the Indian festival of colors, more than three million Twitter followers of the Indian prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi received a personalized greeting from him. Others received celebratory recorded phone messages that concluded with an appeal to vote. In another online campaign, supporters of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) were urged to donate a tweet or Facebook status to the newly formed anti-corruption party. Social […]
In 1913, a man named Richard Platz threw a bottle into the sea carrying a message that would later be found and presented to his granddaughter last Tuesday … 101 years later.Angela Erdmann, 62, never met her grandfather, Platz, as he died before she was born. But receiving the bottle on Tuesday was an extraordinary moment for her. The bottle was found last month by fisherman Konrad Fischer off the […]
It’s not everyday archaeologists uncover a lost, ancient city, let alone one of such importance and significance. A city shrouded in myths and legend, the lost city of Heracleion (Pronounced “Hera-klee-on”… or perhaps “Hera-see-lee-on”… which is more fun, but probably less accurate) has recently been found 30 feet under the surface of the Mediterranean Sea in Aboukir Bay, near Alexandria. The city was first rediscovered by French Archaeologist Dr. Franck Goddio and his […]
The only reason to live is to travel and the only reason to travel is to learn how to live. Imagine yourself walking along the cobblestone streets of a remote village in the Netherlands, waking up to French-pressed coffee and danishes that change everything you know about the word. Imagine swimming in a warm ocean that looks onto sprawling mountains and colorful houses, with coves that enclose caves of crystal […]
Almost a month after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared, searchers say pulse signals detected in the Indian Ocean provide the best hope so far for finding it. However, those same officials warn it will take time to confirm if the sonar pings come from the missing plane, meaning nothing is certain yet. The new information raises more questions about what the pulse signals mean and what happens now. Is this it? Maybe. […]
After a month of searching, investigators now have their “most promising” lead yet in finding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. A pinger locator in the Indian Ocean has detected signals consistent with those emitted by aircraft black boxes, the head of the Joint Agency Coordination Center said Monday. The sounds were heard at a depth of 4,500 meters (about 14,764 feet), retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said. “We’ve got a […]
A pinger locator sits on an Australian ship in the southern Indian Ocean during the search for the black box of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. Photograph: ReutersA Chinese ship has detected an electronic pulse close to where the missing Malaysian Airlines plane is believed to have crashed into the southern Indian Ocean, state media announced late on Saturday. “Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 searching for flight MH370 discovered […]
Rights groups are warning of a backlash against activists in Sri Lanka following a landmark United Nations resolution calling for an international inquiry into abuses at the end of the country’s civil war. The U.N.’s Human Rights Council passed a resolution Thursdaycalling for a “comprehensive investigation into alleged serious violations and abuses of human rights” allegedly committed both by Sri Lankan government forces and the separatist Tamil Tigers in the final […]
A search has yielded no sign of Christine Armstrong or the shark that’s suspected of attacking her off the Australian coast A 63-year-old woman is presumed to have been “taken” by a large shark while swimming off the coast of Australia Thursday, police tell CNN. Christine Armstrong was swimming with a group of friends off a beach in Tathra in New South Wales when she complained and headed back to […]
