The Thanksgiving travel period will see record-breaking numbers for those hitting both the roads and the skies, according to reports from several airlines and travel organizations. The American Automobile Association projected that 79.9 million tr...
Wham!, Sam Ryder and Mariah Carey are all vying for this year's Christmas number one, in one of the most open festive chart battles of recent years. Thursday is the final day for streams and sales to count before the Christmas chart is re...
The number of delegates at this year's UN climate talks who are also linked to fossil fuel producers has quadrupled since last year, campaigners say. Around 2,400 people connected to the coal, oil and gas industries have been registered f...
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The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found. On about a third of days in 2023, the average global temperature was at least 1.5C higher than pre-industrial levels....
A prolonged heatwave in the US has led to an uptick in severely burned patients who were injured after touching hot surfaces or objects. Medics in Arizona said some patients were hurt after falling onto asphalt which had been heated by th...
The Ukrainian capital Kyiv has been targeted by further Russian air attacks, described by one official as "exceptional in density". Ukraine said all 18 missiles were shot down and footage showed air defences destroying targets o...
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Record numbers of nurses are quitting the NHS in England, figures show. More than 40,000 have walked away from the NHS in the past year - one in nine of the workforce, an analysis by a health think tank revealed. It said many of these were often hi...
A look at the 15-year effort to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a national holiday, and the pushback against it....
In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice is the shortest day of the year and marks the beginning of winter....
This video is about the term “projected winner” and it’s meaning! It is very important to know what the projected winner is because there is a big difference between real winner and projected winner!...
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The number of people killed by the new coronavirus rose by 97 on Sunday, the highest number of casualties in a day. The total number of deaths in China is now 908 - but the number of newly-infected people per day has stabilised. Across Chin...
Female characters had their biggest-ever representation in box office films last year, according to research. The Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film said a record 40% of 2019's highest-grossing US movies had women...
MPs are preparing to vote on whether to back Theresa May's deal for leaving the European Union. The so-called "meaningful vote" will take place later as five days of debate on Brexit come to an end. Mrs May has called for politici...
The number of people missing in northern California's devastating wildfire has leapt to more than 600, and seven more bodies have been found, according to local authorities. The missing persons' list has doubled since earlier on Thursday. T...
A video titled “Say My Name”, in which overseas Chinese students atColumbia Universityexplain the meanings behind their names, has gone viral. In a bid to condemn the actions of certain individuals who ripped the Chinese na...