According to both NASA and the U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, which measures the Earth’s surface temperature in a slightly different way, 2015 averaged 14.79 C, the hottest since 1880 when records began. However, past year was the first time the global...
Three attackers have been killed in the assault and three others are still on the run, he said without elaborating. Officials acknowledged though that it was more than four hours after the attack began before security forces tried to enter the hotel.
Brazil’s Health Ministry said on January 20 that 3,893 cases of microcephaly, a rare congenital condition in which babies are born with an abnormally small head, have been associated with Zika.
The state-run agency, KCNA, said the student, Otto Frederick Warmbier, entered North Korea as a tourist but “with a goal to wreck the foundation of state unity … under the manipulation of the USA government”.
Before the church services started this evening, community members joined together to march around the block with signs showing respect to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
England, with a series win already secured, can complete South Africa’s ignominious fall from the top of the rankings when the final Test of the four-match series starts at Centurion Park in Pretoria on Friday.
Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic relations with Iran on January 3 following demonstrations held in front of the Saudi embassy in Tehran and its consulate in the northeastern city of Mashhad by angry protesters censuring the Al Saud family for the killing of Nimr.
Saturday – one day after Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was recaptured by authorities – seemed as good a time as any to unveil one of the year’s biggest journalistic scoops: a sprawling account of how the actor and director known for starring in such...
Less than an hour after Mayor de Blasio warned that city officials were “seriously considering a full travel ban”, Gov. Andrew Cuomo made it official: the city will be under a travel ban on roads as of 2:30 p.m. today.
Citing an inability for plows to keep up with the high rate of snow blanketing Long Island, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state will institute a travel ban on the Long Island Expressway and the Northern State Parkway.