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- Great-great grandmother celebrates 25th leap year birthday
Friday - 02/28/2020 - 11:27 AMDoris Cleife is 100 years old, but she's only celebrating her 25th birthday. She was born on a leap year in 1920.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nurse helping fight coronavirus kisses one-year-old son through glass window
Thursday - 02/27/2020 - 08:17 AMChen Ruixue hadn't seen her son in nearly a month as she worked in the coronavirus isolation unit at Xinyang No.4 People's Hospital.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Guinness World Records oldest man, who said secret to long life was smiling, dies at 112
Tuesday - 02/25/2020 - 10:02 AMChitetsu Watanabe was presented the certificate as the world's oldest living man by Guinness World Records in Niigata, Japan on Feb. 12.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Barbaric, medieval-style execution': Man found guilty of killing retired lecturer with crossbow
Tuesday - 02/25/2020 - 10:57 AMGerald Corrigan, 74, was fatally injured outside his home in Wales after he went outside to fix his satellite dish signal, prosecutors said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Italy scrambles to contain Coronavirus 'hot spot' towns
Monday - 02/24/2020 - 09:54 AMAuthorities in Italy set up roadblocks, called off soccer matches and closed tourist sites to limit the spread of Coronavirus.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Not in my backyard: Alabama balks at plan to house coronavirus patients
Sunday - 02/23/2020 - 04:17 PMA federal plan to house cruise ship passengers who tested positive for the coronavirus at a facility in Alabama was met with a resounding no thanks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Newly discovered species of snail named after teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg
Friday - 02/21/2020 - 02:54 PMThe critter, which was discovered in Brunei on the island of Borneo, now has the scientific name after Greta Thunberg: Craspedotropis gretathunbergae
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Watchdog: Trump administration lacks strategy to fight Afghanistan's dangerous heroin trade
Friday - 02/21/2020 - 07:54 AMAfghanistan is the source for 90 percent of the world's heroin, and the drug trade fuels a deadly insurgency against American troops.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 200 cars pile up near Montreal during whiteout, killing 2 people
Thursday - 02/20/2020 - 09:34 AMCanadian police said whiteout conditions most likely caused a 200-car pileup south of Montreal.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Syrian father calms daughter by teaching her to laugh at bomb sounds
Wednesday - 02/19/2020 - 10:34 AMA Syrian father taught his daughter to laugh when they hear the sound of bombs to calm her during airstrikes.
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- Israel's endless election gets a third try
Friday - 02/28/2020 - 08:10 AMFor the third time in less than a year, Israelis will vote in a national election.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Julian Assange complains about unfairness, claims 'spying' on legal team in fight over extradition
Wednesday - 02/26/2020 - 01:37 PMExchanges in court Wednesday focused on whether the U.S. request for Assange to face spying allegations amounted to "political" charges.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Former Egypt President Hosni Mubarak dies at 91, Egypt media reports
Tuesday - 02/25/2020 - 10:45 AMEgyptian leader Hosni Mubarak was the resolute face of stability in the Mideast for decades before being forced to resign after days of protests.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A heat wave melted 20% of an Antarctic island's snow in only 9 days
Tuesday - 02/25/2020 - 11:48 AMA heat wave earlier this month in Antarctica melted about 20% of an island's snow in only nine days.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Italy coronavirus outbreak: Italians empty supermarket shelves as fear of epidemic spreads
Monday - 02/24/2020 - 11:34 AMNorthern Italy residents cleared the shelves at a supermarket amid fears around the coronavirus outbreak.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange goes to court Monday. Are First Amendment protections at stake?
Sunday - 02/23/2020 - 12:06 PMA British court will decide whether Julian Assange is sent to the U.S. to stand trial where he faces a maximum sentence of up to 175 years in prison.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Frozen bird discovered in Siberia is around 46,000 years old, researchers say
Friday - 02/21/2020 - 04:04 PMThis is the first bird carcass procured from Ice Age permafrost deposits, researchers note. It's an ancestor of two different lark subspecies.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - State Department: 'reduction in violence' with Taliban starts tonight, peace deal signing Feb. 29
Friday - 02/21/2020 - 07:57 AMAccording to Pompeo, the U.S. had "reached an understanding with the Taliban" on a reduction of violence, beginning tonight Afghanistan time.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Woman plays the violin while undergoing surgery to remove brain tumor at hospital in London
Wednesday - 02/19/2020 - 08:57 PMDagmar Turner wanted to make sure she'd be able to continue playing the violin after doctor's at King's College Hospital in London removed a tumor.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Marines stormed Iwo Jima 75 years ago today. Here are the battle's most iconic pictures.
Wednesday - 02/19/2020 - 12:53 PMThe Battle of Iwo Jima produced one of the most iconic pictures in U.S. history. Here are the other stunning photos that stand the test of time.
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- Kaboom! Astronomers detect the universe's biggest explosion since the Big Bang
Friday - 02/28/2020 - 11:45 AMThe explosion took place at the center of a galaxy that's about 390 million light years from Earth.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Greta Thunberg snaps heartwarming photo with her hero, education activist Malala Yousafzai
Wednesday - 02/26/2020 - 10:04 AMClimate change activist Greta Thunberg and women's education advocate Malala Yousafzai met at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Heavy rains flood Indonesia's capital city Jakarta
Tuesday - 02/25/2020 - 09:04 AMHeavy rains in greater Jakarta sent muddy water into residential and commercial areas, inundating homes and paralyzing transportation on Feb. 25, 2020.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Assange extradition hearing opens with claims of retribution against the media, danger to U.S. informants
Monday - 02/24/2020 - 03:00 PMThe U.S. extradition request for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a test case of media freedoms and the global reach of the U.S. justice system.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump tours India on 36-hour visit
Monday - 02/24/2020 - 11:03 AMPresident Trump arrived in India on Feb. 24, 2020 for a lightning visit featuring a huge rally and other high-profile photo opportunities.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A dozen towns in northern Italy are locked down after coronavirus deaths
Saturday - 02/22/2020 - 10:51 AMSchools, businesses and restaurant closed in a dozen northern Italian towns Saturday following reports of two deaths tied to the coronavirus outbreak
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - CDC is preparing for the 'likely' spread of coronavirus in the US, officials say
Friday - 02/21/2020 - 03:43 PMWhile coronavirus has not spread in the United States, CDC officials said they're preparing for the coronavirus to become a pandemic.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ecuador's 'throat of fire' volcano showing signs of 'potential collapse,' study shows
Thursday - 02/20/2020 - 04:37 PMThe Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador – known locally as both the "throat of fire" and the "black giant" – is displaying signs of a potential collapse.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hookah lounges targeted during shootings in Germany
Wednesday - 02/19/2020 - 08:54 PMEight people were killed in shootings in the German city of Hanau late Wednesday, authorities said. Two hookah lounges reportedly were targeted.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - China expels Wall Street Journal reporters over 'racist' headline on coronavirus op-ed
Wednesday - 02/19/2020 - 06:59 AMChina expelled three Wall Street Journal reporters in retaliation for a headline on a column about coronavirus that Beijing said was 'racist.'
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