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U.S.-Chinese pastor David Lin was released from Beijing on Sunday after 18 years in prison for reasons the American government said was unjustified. ... Read full Story
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The European Union's top regulator of the bloc's 27-country internal market, France's Thierry Breton, quit Monday accusing European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen of "questionable governance." ... Read full Story
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A 27-year-old arrested for wearing a protest T-shirt became the first person convicted under Hong Kong's new security law that supports Beijing. ... Read full Story
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Chinese authorities evacuated more than 400,000 people in Shanghai as the most powerful typhoon in 75 years bore down closing airports and disrupting rail and road travel. ... Read full Story
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Canada is expanding its entry ban on Iranian officials over the Middle Eastern country's involvement in terrorism and human rights violations. ... Read full Story
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening retaliation after the Houthi rebels of Yemen targeted central Israel with a missile attack on Sunday. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/15/2024 5:48 PM
The death toll has risen to at least 24 after a fuel tanker explosion in Haiti, local authorities reported Sunday. Dozens more people were injured. ... Read full Story
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At least one person is dead and dozens more are injured following the Russian aerial bombing of a residential building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, officials said. Some of the injured are children. ... Read full Story
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Venezuela has arrested six people, including three United States citizens, for their alleged participation in a CIA-sponsored plot to kill President Nicolas Maduro and several members of his government. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/15/2024 12:18 PM
Israel's military on Sunday concluded in an investigation there is "high probability" three Israeli hostages were killed during an airstrike in November intended to take out a Hamas northern Gaza brigade chief, ... Read full Story
A billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has traveled since NASA’s moonwalkers. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/14/2024 8:05 PM
At least 15 people were killed and 40 more seriously burned in an explosion of a gasoline tanker in Haiti, the Caribbean nation's prime minister said Saturday. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/14/2024 5:51 PM
Heavy rainfall in central and eastern Europe killed at least four and damaged thousands of homes while forcing many to evacuate as a storm system slowly moves across the region. ... Read full Story
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At least three died including two children, and at least 47 were injured with two passengers trains collided in the Nile Delta area of Egypt Saturday. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/14/2024 3:25 PM
Three Americans are facing death sentences in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where they are charged with trying to help overthrow that country's president. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/14/2024 1:20 PM
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday said Kyiv could be reduced to a "giant melted spot" if Western nationals allow Ukraine to use long-range weapons to attack Russia. ... Read full Story
"Like clouds, the shapes of our galaxy’s glittery nebulae are sometimes in the eye of the beholder. They can look like all sorts of animals: tarantulas, crabs, a running chicken, and now, a cosmic koi swimming through space." — Laura Baisas, PopSci.com, 13 June 2024
Did you know?
The history of nebula belongs not to the mists of time but to the mists of Latin: in that language nebula means "mist" or "cloud." In its earliest English uses in the 1600s, nebula was chiefly a medical term that could refer either to a cloudy formation in urine or to a cloudy speck or film on the eye. Nebula was first applied to great interstellar clouds of gas and dust in the early 1700s. The adjective nebulous comes from the same Latin root as nebula, and it is considerably older, being first used as a synonym of cloudy or foggy as early as the 1300s. Like nebula, this adjective was not used in an astronomical sense until centuries later.