By Amarachi Orie, CNN

(CNN) — A UK radio station has apologized to Britain’s King Charles III and its listeners after accidentally and incorrectly announcing the death of the monarch.

“Due to a computer error at our main studio the Death of a Monarch procedure, which all UK stations hold in readiness while hoping not to require, was accidentally activated on Tuesday afternoon (19 May), mistakenly announcing that HM the King had passed away,” the station manager for Radio Caroline, Peter Moore, said in a statement shared on social media Wednesday.

“Radio Caroline then fell silent as would be required, which alerted us to restore programming and issue an on-air apology,” he continued.

“Caroline has been pleased to broadcast Her Majesty the Queen’s, and now the King’s, Christmas Message and we hope to do so for many years to come,” Moore added.

“We apologise to HM the King and to our listeners for any distress caused,” the statement concluded.

Established in 1964, Radio Caroline broadcasts in multiple countries, including Belgium and the Netherlands, and is available online worldwide.

On the day of the erroneous announcement, King Charles and Queen Camilla were in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

The 77-year-old and his wife joined a cultural celebration at Thompson Dock, the dry ground where the Titanic stood before its maiden voyage, Buckingham Palace said in a statement Tuesday.

There, they met performers and organizers preparing for the globally recognized traditional Irish music festival Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, taking place in August.

The royals also visited Titanic distillers and learned about whisky making, before the King visited a local charity providing and promoting wider access to skills for digital careers, according to the palace.

The King and Queen later met with the first minister and deputy first minister of Northern Ireland at Hillsborough Castle, a royal residence near Belfast.

King Charles, who revealed in February 2024 that he had been diagnosed with cancer, shared in a video message in December that his cancer treatment would be reduced this year, as he had been responding well to treatment.

In the past month, he has visited New York and Washington, DC, where he addressed Congress, to mark the 250th anniversary of US independence. The King also addressed the UK Parliament last week.

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By Jackie Wattles, CNN

(CNN) — After a seven-month hiatus, SpaceX is set to launch a new, more powerful version its Starship megarocket — reigniting a make-or-break testing campaign aimed at hashing out unprecedented rocketry challenges and getting the vehicle ready to carry NASA astronauts to the moon.

But experts question whether this vehicle — or a competing spacecraft under development by the Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin — will be ready in time to sway the outcome of what US lawmakers say is an ongoing space race with China.

Liftoff, which is slated for Thursday at 6:30 p.m. ET, also comes during a period of mounting scrutiny around SpaceX. The company is headed for a record-shattering initial public offering, and explosive, attention-grabbing mishaps, such as the kind that have resulted from previous Starship test flights, tend to make investors squeamish.

There “are likely more eyes on this test launch than ever before for this company,” noted Andrew Chanin, the CEO of the investment firm ProcureAM. It’s “a risky call to do this highly anticipated launch so close to the IPO.” But, he added, “Fortune favors the bold.”

With SpaceX planning for Starship to play a central role in the future of its space-based internet business, Starlink, as well as offering services to NASA and the US military, there’s a lot riding on the megarocket’s eventual success.

And it’s not yet clear whether Starship will work.

Starship’s explosive record

SpaceX notched some crucial early successes with Starship during uncrewed, suborbital test flights. The company was first able to recover the Super Heavy booster, for example, in October 2024 — landing the rocket snugly in the metal arms of SpaceX’s “Mechazilla” launch tower in Starbase, Texas.

But the company faced several setbacks with Version 2 of Starship, which first took flight in January 2025.

During two separate test flights in January and March, the vehicle exploded near populated areas east of Florida, creating debris that hit roadways in Turks and Caicos and washed up onto Bahamian islands.

On another test flight in May 2025, the launch system performed notably better, but the Starship spacecraft ultimately spun out of control as it descended toward its landing site in the Indian Ocean. Even the Super Heavy booster, which was meant to make a controlled splashdown in the Gulf, exploded upon landing early in the mission.

Following those three incidents — each of which triggered investigations overseen by federal regulators — SpaceX hit another snag when a Starship spacecraft exploded during a ground test last June. The mishap, which occurred as SpaceX was conducting ground tests of the rocket, spurred an emergency response from nearby authorities in Brownsville, Texas.

An incident report, obtained by CNN via a freedom of information act request, described a tense scene.

“Dispatchers were forced into rapid-fire triage, making split-second decisions to prioritize life-threatening emergencies,” the report reads. “At the same time, public panic rippled across the region, and command staff had to rapidly reallocate emergency resources across the city.”

Local officials did not respond to a request for comment about how emergency response preparedness in the area may have changed since the incident.

SpaceX experienced yet another explosive issue during ground testing in November, when the company was aiming to conduct a fueling test of a Starship V3 rocket. The vehicle was destroyed, but “the test site incurred very little damage and of course no

By Ella Nilsen, CNN

(CNN) — Extreme weather has impacted every corner of the US, from deadly floods to sweltering heat. For Americans, the changing climate has made protecting their homes increasingly important.

Finding a “climate haven” in the United States has become more difficult with the warming planet. Storms can dump biblical amounts of rain in mountainous regions from Vermont to Kentucky to New Mexico. In 2023, Phoenix spent over 50 days baking in over 110-degree Fahrenheit heat, and the city hit triple digits in March this year. The rest of the Southeast is staring down a historically dry start to the year, with fears about wildfires and drought.

But there are key ways to make your home more resilient to a hotter climate and stronger weather, experts say. Much of it begins even before you buy the house.

Information is power

Some of the most important decisions you can make to climate-proof your home happen before the sale closes, experts told CNN. In many cases, learning about the natural environment around a home matters just as much as learning about the home itself.

“The first step to protecting yourself from climate risk during the home buying process is simply knowing what the risk actually is,” Jeremy Porter, chief economist at risk modeling company First Street, wrote in an email to CNN.

First Street uses models to generate risk scores for climate change-fueled disasters like wildfires, coastal and rainstorm flooding, high winds, extreme heat and air quality. These risk scores are displayed on real estate websites including Redfin and Realtor.com.

(Zillow stopped featuring First Street’s climate data on home listings last year, after facing pressure from the California Regional Multiple Listing Service, a subscriber-based listing service. However, Zillow still links its data.)

Especially as home insurance costs in some areas climb, a prospective homebuyer looking at their risk profile “gets a much clearer picture of what that home will really cost them year over year,” Porter said.

Find an area that can handle storms

Prospective homeowners may want to find towns that are intentionally designed to withstand stronger storms, bigger wildfires or even hotter temperatures.

For example, the town of Babcock Ranch lies 50 miles south of Tampa on Florida’s Gulf Coast and has successfully weathered multiple major hurricanes.

The town was built to withstand stronger storms with a natural wetland barrier and a series of interconnected lakes that serve as catch basins for excess flood water. And Babcock Ranch buried power lines and built a vast solar array to keep the lights on during four major hurricanes in the last nine years.

But most prospective homeowners don’t have the advantage of buying into a town that was intentionally designed to withstand extreme weather. When looking in mountainous areas, find homes at higher elevations and away from rivers or streams – or engineer earthen berms and swales that help guide flooding runoff away from the home, experts say.

Small ways to climate-proof your home

Homeowners “at pretty much any budget” can make their homes more resilient, Porter said.

People at risk of flooding can extend their downspouts farther away from their home’s foundation or seal foundation cracks. For those at risk of high winds, trimming trees near the house and reinforcing the garage door are lower-cost fixes.

People living in an area with wildfire risk can keep dry vegetation away from their houses and install vent screens resistant to embers. Far more expensive options include fortifying a home’s roof and siding to be resistant to wind or wildfire or fully elevating a home in a flood-prone area.

Once again, looking at the environment around the home is a good starting point. Having a home o

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El gobierno de Reino Unido publicó el jueves un conjunto de documentos relacionados con el nombramiento de Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor como enviado comercial en 2001, cargo al que el expríncipe renunció una década después debido a sus vínculos con el delincuente sexual convicto Jeffrey Epstein.

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