Melbourne Cup: Magic Circle aims to break curse of British trainers

(CNN)It's one of racing's holy grails, but the Melbourne Cup remains a mystical prize for British trainers. Plenty have tried, but it's as if there is a curse on the British in Australia's famous "race that stops a nation." Hoping to break that spell this year is Magic Circle, trained by Ian Williams. Another strong European contingent will descend on Melbourne for Tuesday's...

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This photographer is reimagining Norman Rockwell for the 21st century

n 1964, Norman Rockwell's Civil Rights-era painting "The Problem We All Live With" depicted Ruby Bridges, the six-year-old black girl, who entered an all-white school in 1960, walking between deputy  U.S. marshals with volleyed tomatoes and a racial slur staining the wall behind her. In 2015, artist Maggie Meiners reimagined the famous composition to explore the plight...

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Asia Bibi's lawyer flees Pakistan in fear for his life, associate says

Karachi, Pakistan (CNN)The lawyer representing a Pakistani Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after almost eight years on death row, has fled the country in fear for his life, an associate told CNN on Sunday. Asia Bibi's acquittal last week prompted violent protests by the Islamist movement Tehreek-e-Labbaik (TLP), and on Friday her lawyer Saiful Malook told CNN he was...

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Death toll rises to 29 in Italy's historic storms, flooding

A flooded house where nine people in the same family died after a small river burst its banks in Casteldaccia near Palermo on the southern Italian island of Sicily. (CNN)With the deaths of 12 people in Sicily, the death toll in Italy's historic flooding has grown to 29, the country's interior minister said. "Twelve dead in Sicily, people that were having dinner and were...

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Lion Air crash: Signal from black box lost, searchers say

Jakarta (CNN)Divers searching for the wreckage of Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610 can no longer hear a signal from the aircraft's missing cockpit voice recorder, the head of Indonesia's Search and Rescue Agency said Sunday. Diving teams have been working to locate the device, commonly known as a black box, which could help investigators piece together the final moments...

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US Navy has had 18 unsafe or unprofessional encounters with China since 2016

(CNN)The US Navy has had 18 unsafe or unprofessional encounters with Chinese military forces in the Pacific since 2016, according to US military statistics obtained by CNN. "We have found records of 19 unsafe and/or unprofessional interactions with China and Russia since 2016 (18 with China and one with Russia)," Cmdr. Nate Christensen, a spokesman for the US Pacific Fleet,...

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