Month: October 2019

By night, Baghdad’s streets are eerily quiet, punctuated with smatterings of gunfire — be it a single shot or something more sustained…

Tiny fossils trapped in amber have revealed a previously unknown creature that lived 30 million years ago that scientists are calling the “mold…

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been jointly awarded to James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their work in furthering our understanding…

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been jointly awarded to William Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza for their pioneering research…

JT is free. The rapper, born Jatavia Johnson, is one half of the Miami rap duo City Girls and newly home from prison. Johnson had been open about the…

“I’ve been in my share of compromising positions,” says the guy in the airline company video. “Here’s my guide to…

Five days after Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey deleted his now famous tweet with the words “stand with Hong Kong,” the most…

The NBA has abruptly called off a hotly anticipated press event for the Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers in Shanghai, the latest attempt to…

Shortly after takeoff on an eight-hour flight from London to Washington, DC, a woman says she started receiving disturbing messages on the in-flight…

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino for their research in improving…

A bank robber who used his legal right to a “last word” to speak for five days in court has been sentenced to 12-and-a-half years in…

The Eagles are embarking on a nationwide tour in 2020 where they’ll play the entire track list of Hotel California from beginning to end. The…

Josh Adams scored a hat-trick to help Wales recover from an early 10-point deficit to beat Fiji 29-17 and qualify for the quarterfinals of the Rugby…

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday announced visa restrictions on Chinese officials suspected of being involved in the detention and human…

The wives of former England football internationals Wayne Rooney and Jamie Vardy have become embroiled in a social media row over “leaked…

Native New Yorker Alec Baldwin got scammed by a ticket seller in New York City. The actor, apparently unaware he was being sold bum tickets,…

American Airlines announced Wednesday that it is removing the Boeing 737 Max from its flight schedule until mid-January, an acknowledgment that the…

A 4-year-old Chinese boy has been rescued after getting his head stuck in security bars, leaving him dangling from a fourth-story window. Dramatic…

A social housing project in Norwich, England, hailed as a “modest masterpiece,” has won the prestigious Stirling Prize architecture…