When flames tore through the Wang Fuk Court estate in Tai Po, Hong Kong, William Li had no warning. A call from his wife was the first sign of danger. For more than two hours, Li and two neighbors were trapped, battling suffocating smoke and falling debris before firefighters pulled them to safety. CNN's Hanako Montgomery spoke with the escapee whose survival is a rare miracle in a disaster that claimed almost 150 lives and reduced his community of 40 years to ashes.
When flames tore through the Wang Fuk Court estate in Tai Po, Hong Kong, William Li had no warning. A call from his wife was the first sign of danger. For more than two hours, Li and two neighbors were trapped, battling suffocating smoke and falling debris before firefighters pulled them to safety. CNN's Hanako Montgomery spoke with the escapee whose survival is a rare miracle in a disaster that claimed almost 150 lives and reduced his community of 40 years to ashes.
As a US-imposed deadline approaches demanding Lebanon disarm the militant group Hezbollah by the end of the year, CNN's Ben Wedeman gets rare access into a Hezbollah tunnel now under control of the Lebanese military in the rugged mountains of southern Lebanon.
Pope Leo XIV visited the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, on Saturday during his first foreign trip since becoming pontiff. Leo will then travel to Lebanon as part of an ongoing effort to promote interfaith dialogue.
Andriy Yermak, one of Ukraine’s most influential political operators and a close aide of President Volodymyr Zelensky, resigned hours after anti-corruption agencies raided his home – a major crisis as Kyiv faces new pressure from the US to accept a peace deal to end the war with Russia.
Hippos regularly wander through neighborhoods at night in the South African town of St. Lucia. This eco-tourism hotspot sits beside one of the country’s largest hippo habitats.
There’s been a spate of record-breaking auction sales recently and experts at Christie’s in London think we might be about to see another. A legendary Fabergé Imperial Egg, commissioned by Russian emperors to celebrate Easter, is one of the last left in private hands, and it’s now going up for sale for the first time in two decades. Christie's estimates that this 1913 Winter Egg will fetch “in excess of” £20 million ($26 million) on December 2, which would not only set an auction record for a Fabergé egg — it would also obliterate the one the Winter Egg itself set in 2002. CNN's Fiona Sinclair Scott visits Christie's to learn more about this curio.
Pope Leo has visited the sunken Basilica of Saint Neophytos in Turkey to take part in celebrations for the 1,700th anniversary of The Council of Nicaea. This ecumenical council produced the Nicene Creed which defined the core Christian doctrines. CNN Vatican Correspondent Christopher Lamb reports.
The emotional moment a conservationist found the rare flower that he’d been looking for for years has gone viral. Septi Andriki and a team of conservationists found the rare Rafflesia Hasseltii in bloom deep in the rainforest in west Sumatra, Indonesia.
