By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN

(CNN) — They’ve lived in various destinations, including San Francisco and Ireland, over the years but Geoffrey and Sarah say they’ve never felt as at home as they do in Germany.

The couple, who relocated to Breisach, located along the temperate Rhine Valley, in 2023, loves exploring the riverbanks, parks and forests in the charming town, known as the gateway to the Black Forest, with their six-year-old son.

After two and a half years in Breisach, which is built on a hilltop, Geoffrey and Sarah — who have chosen to withhold their surnames for personal reasons — say they’ve been welcomed with open arms and now feel like a part of the local community.

“It didn’t have anything to do with us,” says Geoffrey. “It had to do with the people here that really opened up their hearts to us.”

While they are happily settled in Germany today, the couple says moving there was never part of their plan.

Geoffrey and Sarah, who’ve been married since 2005, were content with their lives in Colorado and had no intention of leaving the US until around a decade ago.

Big decision

Geoffrey says he became depressed after the 2016 US presidential election and began to look at his life there differently. Around a year later, he was let go from his job as a software test engineer.

“That sort of pushed me over a ledge,” Geoffrey told CNN Travel. “I wanted some emotional distance from what was happening around me, and that meant geographical distance.”

As Sarah had been able to obtain Irish citizenship by descent through her grandmother, Ireland was high on the list of contenders as a potential new home for their family, and they began looking into opportunities there, as well as in the US.

When Geoffrey was offered a job in Dublin, they felt that this was the right time to make a change.

“If I’d found one in the US, we probably would have stayed,” Geoffrey reflects today.

Leaving the US wasn’t an easy decision for Geoffrey and Sarah, who say they had a strong support network in Colorado. They had just completed major work on the house they truly believed would be their forever home.

Instead of selling, they decided to rent out the three-bedroom property to keep it as a safety net. That proved simple, but finding a rental to move into in Dublin, since they couldn’t afford to buy a home in the Irish capital, was trickier.

So they got “creative.” Inspired by friends who’d been living on a boat for years, they bought a houseboat based in the Netherlands and had it moved to Malahide, a coastal town just north of Dublin with a marina.

The vessel arrived two days before they did, in June 2018.

“It could have gone horribly wrong, but it all worked out,” says Geoffrey.

They brought everything they needed, along with their two dogs, with them on the plane. The most expensive part of the relocation was buying the houseboat, which cost around €64,000 (roughly $74,800). Renting space at the marina cost around €435 (around $508) a month.

“Given that that was our full-time housing, it wasn’t too bad,” says Sarah.

Ireland adventure

Geoffrey and Sarah spent about five years living in Ireland, staying on the boat for a year and a half before moving into a small house in the heart of Dublin.

“When we were expecting our child, we decided that living on a boat in the Irish Sea was maybe not the best place to have an infant running around,” explains Geoffrey.

After a few years they began to get itchy feet once again, says Sarah, adding that Ireland started to feel a bit “insular” over time, and she was ready to move on.

“I like having a few more opportunities and options, so we were excited,” she adds.

So why Germany? Both had studied German previously, and lived in the cou

By Ella Nilsen, Sam Hart, CNN

(CNN) — The world’s second-tallest tsunami wave on record tore through the remote Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska last August, leaving immense destruction in its wake.

Luckily, there were no people nearby. But in its aftermath, scientists immediately went to work, piecing together what happens when a mountainside collapse kicks off a mega-tsunami and no one is around to see it.

This is how it happened: On August 10, at 5:30 in the morning, an entire mountainside at the mouth of the receding South Sawyer glacier detached, falling into the ocean and producing a monster wave. At its peak, the wave raced up over 1,500 feet on the opposing wall of the fjord — a height taller than Kuala Lumpur’s twin Petronas towers.

The mega-tsunami wreaked havoc across the landscape, stripping forests down to bare rock, ripping trees out by their roots and hurling boulders.

It also produced a seismic vibration so strong it shook the entire planet for days. Only the second time that an effect like this has been recorded anywhere, it was caused by trapped energy from the wave sloshing around in the fjord for days following the initial event.

In the months following the tsunami, a dozen scientists from the US, Canada and Europe have been doing “detective” work, attempting to “re-create this hazards cascade,” said Daniel Shugar, a geomorphologist and professor at the University of Calgary.

Scientists see the fingerprints of climate change all over this event and several others like it that have occurred in recent years. Many of them have been linked to retreating glaciers, as melting ice destabilizes the mountains and land that had been covered for centuries.

“As the climate is changing, as glaciers are retreating, we are likely going to see more of these kinds of events in high latitude environments in the Arctic and the sub-Arctic,” Shugar said.

“I can barely believe it”

Even for scientists who study these kinds of disasters, the awe-inducing destruction and power of the Tracy Arm mega-tsunami is hard for the human brain to comprehend.

The mountainside that slid off to produce the skyscraper-size wave was, itself, more than 3,200 feet tall — higher than the world’s tallest building. Today, the mountainside looks bare, as though the 370 million metric tons of rock were scooped out as they slid into the ocean below, leaving a concave scar.

When tsunami modeler and researcher Patrick Lynett traveled with a team to the site of the landslide months later for field work, he was left in awe by the disaster’s magnitude.

“I saw it in real life, and I can barely believe it,” said Lynett, a professor at the University of Southern California.

It may seem odd that such a disaster left no injuries or deaths. But the sheer height of tsunami waves doesn’t always correspond with the number of fatalities. Counterintuitive as it might be, the deadliest tsunamis in the world happened with much smaller waves than either Tracy Arm or the 1958 Lituya Bay tsunami — the current record-holder for biggest wave. (Lituya Bay killed between 2 and 5 people, sources differ.)

Landslide-induced tsunamis can best be thought of as a big splash set off by many tons of rock falling into deep water, often in narrow channels like mountain fjords. Just like when you throw a big rock into a river, the splash happens quickly. Colossal as it was, the Tracy Arm wave happened in just 45 seconds to a minute.

Earthquake-caused tsunamis

By Amarachi Orie, CNN

(CNN) — Catherine, Princess of Wales, is set to make her first official overseas trip since recovering from cancer.

The British royal is expected to travel to Italy next week for a two-day solo working trip with the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, according to Kensington Palace.

Kate launched the foundation in 2021 to raise awareness of the impact experiences in early childhood can have on later life outcomes.

Between next Wednesday and Thursday, the princess will spend time in the northern Italian city of Reggio Emilia to explore internationally leading approaches to supporting young children and their carers, the palace said in a statement shared with CNN on Wednesday.

The city is known worldwide for its trademarked educational philosophy, the Reggio Emilia Approach, which views children as active, central figures in their own learning, and believes educational centers should tailor to children’s different ways of thinking and communicating.

Kate will meet with educators, parents, children, and community and business leaders to see the Reggio Emilia Approach in action, according to Kensington Palace.

“The Princess is very much looking forward to visiting Italy next week and seeing first-hand how the Reggio Emilia approach creates environments where nature and loving human relationships come together to support children’s development,” a Kensington Palace spokesperson said in the statement.

The visit will mark Kate’s first international trip since 2022, when she appeared with William, Prince of Wales, in Boston, Massachusetts, for the Earthshot Prize Awards.

Kate spent much of 2024 dealing with health challenges, but she revealed in January last year that she is in remission from cancer, months after completing her chemotherapy.

Speaking to patients at Colchester Hospital in southeast England in July, Kate described the phase after cancer treatment as “really difficult,” adding that “you’re not able to function normally at home as you perhaps once used to.”

The princess has, however, slowly been returning to her royal duties, with trips around the UK.

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By Cindy Von Quednow, CNN

(CNN) — Antisemitic physical assaults in the United States reached record highs in 2025, and included Jewish fatalities on American soil for the first time since 2019, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual report.

It was the first time there were fatalities in the US that resulted from antisemitic attacks since 2022, the report found.

Two Israeli Embassy staff members were fatally shot last May outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC. Just a month later, a man in Colorado firebombed an event organized by members of the Jewish community to bring attention to the Israeli hostages still in Gaza. An 82-year-old woman later died from her injuries.

Antisemitic physical assaults increased by 4% and assaults involving a deadly weapon went up by 39%, the ADL said.

“The surge in physical assaults is a stark reminder that a historically high level of antisemitism puts Jewish lives at risk,” Oren Segal, ADL’s senior vice president for counter-extremism and intelligence, said in the news release.

Overall antisemitic incidents had a 33-percent decrease from 2024, but remain “considerably higher than the total in years prior to the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre in Israel,” a news release from the ADL about the report said.

There were a total of 6,274 incidents of antisemitic assaults, harassment and vandalism in 2025, an average of 17 incidents per day, according to the report. That’s up from an average of 8 incidents per day between 2020 and 2022.

Last April, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s home was broken into and set ablaze, forcing the governor and his family to flee. Hours before, Shapiro and his family had been celebrating the Jewish holiday of Passover.

“Behind every one of these incidents is a real person: a family threatened at their synagogue, a rabbi attacked on the street, a student harassed on campus,” Segal said.

An annual report that collects incidents around the world found violent antisemitic attacks in 2025 killed the highest number of Jews in 30 years.

In a survey early last year, the ADL found that 46% of adults around the world harbor “deeply entrenched” antisemitic attitudes. The number of people who hold antisemitic beliefs more than doubled across the past decade, the ADL found.

Vandalism and harassment incidents decrease

A total of 203 incidents were described as assaults, with 32 involving a deadly weapon. At least 300 people were victimized by assaults, the ADL found.

Instances of vandalism decreased by 21%, while incidents of harassment also decreased by 39%, according to the report.

Incidents on college and university campuses saw the steepest drop of any location type, according to the ADL. In 2025, the ADL recorded 583 antisemitic