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Next week: See a blue moon and a lunar eclipse

This full moon will also be a " Super Moon" or a full moon that occurs when the moon is relatively close to Earth in its orbit. And the blood moon happens wh...

Italy Train Crash: Three People Dead After Commuter Train Derails Near Milan

They also show a team pulling a passenger from a tilted carriage, and trying to get to more people with ladders propped up against the windows. The train was ...

Mummified Syphilitic Corpse Revealed To Be Boris Johnson's Ancestor

She was buried right in front of the altar, clearly well fed and was wearing good quality clothes, indicating she was just as wealthy as her distant grandson wa...

Water run out: Days are numbered in Cape Town

The Western Cape region of South Africa was unprepared to handle three consecutive years of severe drought. Like most residents of Cape Town, my household of ...

Mourinho extends contract at Man United till 2020

Sanchez finally completed his move to Manchester United on Monday, with midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan coming the other way as part of the deal. Fans have ...

De Blasio skipping Trump meeting over DOJ's 'racist assault' on immigrants

The president had said months ago that grant money from the justice department would be withheld from states with so-called sanctuary cities , but that has...

Caught on camera: Wild chase ends with head on collision

Most of the chase was on freeways, including Interstate 10, and at normal driving speeds as troopers tailed the SUV from a distance and a law enforcement helico...

Campaign finance watchdog calls for investigation into Trump-Stormy Daniels payment

The payment could be troublesome for Trump if Cohen was working on behalf of the campaign and did not disclose it. "The American people expect and deserve t...

European Union imposes sanctions on 7 senior Venezuelan officials

According to Venezuela's constitution, a new six-year presidential term must begin in January 2019. In response, Maduro said he would on Tuesday ask the Natio...

OBITUARY: Ursula le Guin, award-winning sci-fi writer who defied pigeon-holing

Perhaps my favourite Le Guin piece, however, is her famous, Hugo award-winning short story " The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas ". Le Guin inspired an entire ge...

Turkey Syria campaign could extend beyond Afrin: foreign minister

Manbij is still a campaign Ankara has not ruled out. The statement said the Turkish military intervention in the Syrian enclave of Afrin was continuing as ...

After its own tragedy, Aztec extends support to Kentucky shooting victims

The attacker, a 15-year-old male student, was arrested in "a non-violent apprehension", officials said. Kentucky State Police Commissioner Richard Sanders on ...

Nassar expected to be sentenced today for sex assaults

He is accused of abuse by over 150 women, many of whom have been reading their statements in court. Scores of women said they were abused and then pressured...

India, ASEAN Explore Ways to Capture Global Textile Market

The 10 ASEAN leaders will attend India's Republic Day parade and other functions as chief guests on Friday. U Khin Maung Cho, Union Minister of Industry, Mya...

Police arrests rapist and killer of a seven-year-old minor

He further demanded to bring condemning resolution in the assembly against Shehbaz Sharif for clapping during press conference in Kasur . The names of some...

White House Slams Graham

He added, "As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating immigration , we are going nowhere". Some have even referred to the 32-year-old former Sen...

Canada's Trudeau SNUBS Donald Trump and confirms agreement on Trans-Pacific Partnership

Unifor president Jerry Dias, whose union represents more than 23,000 Canadian auto workers, said Canada moving ahead with TPP "completely undermines the ent...

Davos diplomacy scene won't be a natural fit for Trump

President Donald Trump's attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos in the Swiss alps was in doubt on Monday as the USA government shutdown stretc...

Gov. Cuomo plans to keep Statue of Liberty open during government shutdown

Statue Cruises, which provides ferry rides to the island, said the shutdown already led to a 50 percent to 70 percent drop in trips, putting its 200 jobs at ris...

White House Not Shooting Down Possible Shutdown-Ending Deal

Sixteen of them voted against the measure (along with Republicans Mike Lee and Rand Paul, who generally oppose stopgap spending bills); other than Dianne Fein...

Gambling site picks Boston to win Amazon's HQ2

None of those cities made the short list. Other cities like Dayton and tiny Stonecrest, Ga. - which offered to change its name to Amazon, Ga. - touted their c...

Jordan's king urges Pence to rebuild trust and confidence after Jerusalem announcement

In remarks during talks with US Vice Mike Pence in Amman, the king said the only solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was a two-state one. In Decemb...

Theresa May to meet Donald Trump in Davos

Not since 1993 have I looked forward to the event with as much anticipation. Bonang Mohale‚ CEO for Business Leadership South Africa. Modi will hold a bilat...

Kejriwal should quit on 'moral grounds': Congress, BJP demand

The controversy over the MLAs holding "office of profit" (as parliamentary secretaries ) started soon after AAP's victory in the 2015 Delhi Assembly election...

ULA launches missile defense satellite

The Atlas V rocket is carrying the fourth Space Based Infrared System GEO satellite built by Lockheed Martin that will provide early-missile warning defense f...

S. Korea begins talks with International Olympic Committee on NK's PyeongChang participation

Officials from North and South Korea have agreed to form a joint women's ice hockey team . Meanwhile, at the Paralympics of PyeongChang, the PDRK will send a...

US Supreme Court To Rule On Trump Travel Ban

The announcement was celebrated by opponents of the ban. In what could prove decisive in a legal battle that has roiled the first year of the Trump administra...

Industry folk unfazed by wild swings in cryptocurrency value

Less than two weeks ago, the cryptocurrency market reached an all-time high above $830 billion, before fears that South Korea, China , and Russian Federati...

Drone rescues swimmers in Australia in world first

The trio were in Lennox Head for the launch of the Westpac Little Ripper drone as part of a State Government trial of the technology on North Coast beaches. The...

Bitcoin falls under $10000 in continued Cryptocurrency descent

Astonishingly, all of the other top 10 digital currencies by market capitalisation have plummeted even further than bitcoin over the past 24 hours, according ...

How Rex Tillerson Thinks He Can Avoid Mission Creep in Syria

Over the past few years the US has been actively supporting a multi-ethnic group in Syria called the Syrian Democratic Forces, which is mainly made up of the ...

Israeli boy who survived 2008 attacks returns to Mumbai

Ahead of Moshe's visit, Israel Kozlovsky, the centre's rabbi, told AFPthat it would be a very emotional occasion. Announced in July past year, when Indian Pri...

No Kyrgyzstanis among Kazakhstan bus fire victims

Fifty-two people were killed Thursday when the Russia-bound bus they were travelling on caught fire in Kazakhstan, the central Asian nation's emergency services...

How a selfie taken minutes before the death solved a murder mystery

After the evidence emerged, Antoine admitted to killing Gargol, though she says she doesn't remember it. An anonymous tip eventually led police to a witness, a ...

U.S. will consider Turkey's concerns about PKK: Tillerson

The Afrin district has been a topic of debate recently, especially after the U.S. announced its intention to arm Kurdish border guards on the Syrian-Turkish bor...