When humanoid robots dominated the stage of last year’s Spring Festival Gala with sleek dance routines, Ai Lin saw more than a spectacle. He saw a business. Soon after, the e-commerce livestreamer in Hangzhou shelled out $30,000 for his first android and turned it into a rental venture. Business has been brisk. For 3,000 yuan ($443) a day, customers can hire an android to attract crowds at exhibitions, perform at events or even help stage a marriage proposal.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/30/tech/china-humanoid-robot-ai-rental-intl-hnk-dst
Sigue nuestra cobertura en español Venezuela was broken long before two back-to-back earthquakes ripped the country from its foundations last Wednesday. The effects of more than a decade of government mismanagement and economic sanctions are clear at Dr. José Manuel de Los Ríos Children’s Hospital in Caracas, where Dr. Huníades Urbina-Medina can treat only four children at a time in the intensive care unit. “We (once) could receive up to 10 patients” in the ICU, Urbina-Medina said. “But since at least 10 years ago, we don’t have enough personnel, we don’t have enough medicines, we don’t have enough mechanical ventilators.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/30/americas/venezuela-earthquakes-hospital-latam-intl
Multiple people have been attacked by alligators across central Florida in the last week, with the most recent attack killing a 31-year-old woman. Serious encounters with alligators remain relatively rare, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission data, but there have been three attacks in the last seven days. Two came with 24 hours of each other, according to CNN affiliate WESH. The victim in the latest attack had stopped to swim with her boyfriend and friend in the Econlockhatchee River just north of Orlando Sunday afternoon when the alligator bit her, the FWC said in a press briefing.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/29/us/alligator-attacks-florida-woman-death
EDITOR’S NOTE: CNN Style is one of the official media partners of Paris Fashion Week. See all coverage here. During a suffocating heatwave that took hold of countries across Europe last week, temperatures in Paris hit dangerously high levels — closing landmarks, breaking trains and driving up a heat-related death toll. Still, a surprising number of attendees at the city’s bi-annual Men’s Fashion Week proved their commitment to a look and arrived in mind-boggling layers: funnel-neck jackets, jeans, even a fur shawl. Professionally styled celebrities, models and servers perhaps fared the worst in the historic heatwave, wearing what had been decided weeks earlier, from the claustrophobic latex stockings and trench coat Connor Storrie wore to the Saint Laurent show, to the poor waiters dressed in full horse costumes at the Acne Papers garden party in the Palais Royal. One hard-as-nails publicist working the door at a show on Saturday said they were powering through heatstroke. Out on the runway the broad suggestion from the big designers about what men should wear next summer was equally head-scratching: suede suits, coats and fur-lined pyjama tops-turned-jackets at Dior, thick bomber jackets at Kenzo, as well as suede trousers, leather jackets, fur-trimmed padded coats and parkas at Louis Vuitton. At Sarah Burton’s menswear debut for Givenchy, the textile du jour appeared to be leather: trousers and rugby shirts were cut from it and styled together, while leather tracksuits in black, red, orange, zingy yellow, green and blue filled an entire room, a reissue of the version Timothée Chalamet loves to wear.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/29/style/pfw-ss27-menswear-extreme-heat-paris
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