Munich train stations reopened and trains were running on New Year’s Day, but a warning about Islamic State extremists intending to blow themselves up in the German city remained in place. “The information about an imminent terror attack at midnight … Read More
Thousands of police officers deployed across the streets of London didn’t put off the huge crowds that gathered to watch the city’s spectacular fireworks display on New Year’s Eve. All available staff, including hundreds of specially trained firearms officers, were … Read More
While you were celebrating New Years Eve, Elon Musk was assessing the damage to SpaceX’s recently landed Falcon 9 rocket. OK, we don’t know that for sure, but the SpaceX founder did tweet a closeup image of the rocket shortly … Read More
Yet another batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s personal email server were released Thursday afternoon. The New Year’s Eve news dump included more than 1,200 emails from the former secretary of state’s personal email account, which dogged her campaign for … Read More
A Florida family taking a Christmas cruise was shocked by the scene of a terrible death on board a Carnival Cruise Line ship. On Sunday, electrician Jose Sandoval Opazo, 66, was killed while working on an elevator on the Carnival … Read More
Russia on Wednesday sentenced a blogger in the city of Tomsk to five years in a Siberian prison for “inciting extremism and hatred” after he criticized Russian military intervention in Ukraine in videos he posted to YouTube and Vkontakte, Russia’s … Read More
Fire broke out in a 63-story hotel located near the Burj Khalifa in downtown Dubai on New Year’s Eve. The fire reportedly started on the 20th floor, and the hotel was evacuated. Initial reports say there have been 14 minor … Read More
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy is remembering America’s deadly year of gun violence, one tweet at a time Using data from shootingtracker.com and Reddit, the Democrat is tweeting details of each mass shooting that happened in 2015. “For my 2015 year … Read More
Cities across Asia celebrate the New Year: A giant bell was rung in Seoul; revelers danced in Beijing’s Forbidden City; fireworks were ignited from a skyscraper in Taipei; balloons were released in Tokyo. Read more… More about Beijing, New Years, … Read More
A massive fire broke out at a downtown Dubai hotel late Thursday night. Social media users posted videos and photos of the fire on Twitter, saying the fire was at The Address Hotel, near where a large New Year’s Eve … Read More