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Oct 15, 2021 391 Hundreds more flee as lava spreads on Spain's La Palma

Red hot lava has already laid waste to nearly 600 hectares of land and destroyed about 1,500 houses and other buildings, including a cement plant that gave off toxic fumes earlier in the week.
Oct 15, 2021 392 Gabby Petito died of strangulation. Far too many other women have, too

Most women who are strangled by their husbands or boyfriends don’t cooperate with law enforcement. Because strangulation, when it doesn’t kill, frequently causes traumatic brain injuries, these women sometimes can’t speak in a way that seem…
Oct 15, 2021 393 China-Taiwan tensions are raising fears of a conflict. In Taipei, however, people don't seem worried

China has stepped up pressure on Taiwan in recent weeks, flying dozens of warplanes near the self-ruled island in a show of strength that has put the entire region on edge.
Oct 14, 2021 394 'Seized by some invisible hand': What it feels like to have Havana Syndrome

NBC News first reported in 2018 that American intelligence officials suspected Russia was behind the phenomenon, which some believed were intentional attacks using microwave energy.
Oct 14, 2021 395 As Puerto Rico's power crisis worsens, lawmakers probing outages seek answers

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Rico residents have experienced widespread blackouts, longer service restoration times, poor customer service and voltage fluctuations that often damage appliances and other home elect…
Oct 14, 2021 396 Lance Armstrong Lance Armstrong

Comeback Astana Pro Team: 2009 4444l Armstrong announced on September 9, 2008, that he would return to pro cycling with the express goal of participating in the 2009 Tour de France. VeloNews reported that Armstrong would race for no salary …
Oct 14, 2021 397 William Shatner, TV's Captain Kirk's First Journey Into Space

Shatner's flight marked the second of what Blue Origin hopes will be many space tourism launches, carrying wealthy customers and thrill seekers to the edge of space
Oct 14, 2021 398 WHO says it may be 'last chance' to find Covid origins

Labs in the area where the first reports of human infections emerged in Wuhan must be a focus, as ruling out an accident requires sufficient evidence, it said.
Oct 13, 2021 399 Thomas Edison Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor.
Oct 13, 2021 400 Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas
Oct 13, 2021 401 AstraZeneca Vaccine antibody cocktail study shows success treating Covid-19

AstraZeneca's antibody cocktail against Covid-19, which has proven to work as a preventative shot in the non-infected, was also shown to save lives and prevent severe disease when given as treatment within a week of first symptoms.
Oct 12, 2021 402 The Coast to Coast Cycle to Cure Childhood Cancer Rides Through Oregon!

On August 15th, two fathers from Connecticut, Alec Fraser and Jamie Meehan each dipped a wheel of their bicycles in Long Island Sound before heading across country. Their destination is Santa Clara,CA, but today is the day they will dip the…
Oct 11, 2021 403 Albert Einstein Albert Einstein

Einstein received numerous awards and honors, and in 1922, he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics
Oct 10, 2021 404 How Instagram led to two teens' eating disorders

At 14, Ashlee Thomas was in the grips of anorexia. She weighed 85 pounds. She was hospitalized. Her heart stopped twice. Doctors thought she would not survive. 3333l But she did. And now the resident of New South Wales, Australia, is dedica…
Oct 10, 2021 405 Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln

in 1854, Abraham Lincoln is becoming a leader in the new Republican Party, and he reached a national audience in the 1858 debates against Stephen Douglas. Lincoln ran for President in 1860, sweeping the North in victory.
Oct 10, 2021 406 Charles Darwin Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin’s accomplishments include the 25 publications that he had written. His main publication was that of the “ On the Origin of Species”.
Oct 9, 2021 407 US adds 194,000 September jobs in another month of disappointing growth

The latest snapshot of the US jobs market was compiled in mid-September, when the Delta variant was near its peak in the US. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said 1.6 million people were prevented from looking for work due to the pandemic, li…
Oct 9, 2021 408 EXCLUSIVE Compassion not barbed wire should greet migrants, Nobel winner Gurnah says

This is where fiction can play a part: not by educating but by informing, by engaging, by speaking about things, by making people live
Oct 9, 2021 409 Anne Frank Anne Frank

Time period chronicled in the diary 2222l Before going into hiding For her thirteenth birthday, Frank received an autograph book, bound with red-and-white checkered cloth and with a small lock on the front. Frank decided she would use it as…
Oct 9, 2021 410 European International travelers soon be allowed to travel to the U.S.

Airlines for America, a trade group representing American Airlines Co, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and others, said it was 'pleased by the CDC's decision to approve a list of authorized vaccinations for travelers entering the U.S. We l…
Oct 9, 2021 411 Biden refuses to assert privilege over Trump documents sought by January 6 committee

The National Archives has already identified documents in response to the committee request and shared them with the Trump legal team and the White House, according to a source familiar with the matter
Oct 9, 2021 412 Big Problem when Indians can't prove family died from Covid

Delhi, India - As India's brutal second coronavirus wave ravaged the country this spring, Ankit Srivastava went from hospital to hospital, trying to find help for his ailing mother. But hospitals in the Indian city of Varanasi had run out o…
Oct 9, 2021 413 Hong Kong University to remove 'Pillar of Shame' Tiananmen Square sculpture

The sculpture "serves as a warning and a reminder to people of a shameful event which must never reoccur," according to the description on Galschiøt's website.
Oct 8, 2021 414 Ukrainian flight attendants can now wear comfortable in-flight uniforms

Alexandrina Denysenko, a senior flight attendant with seven years of experience, says she sometimes does not get a spare minute to sit down during a flight and dreams of resting her swollen legs after spending hours wearing heels.
Oct 8, 2021 415 Sydney Australia ready to exit lockdown during concerns over faster reopening plans

Neighbouring New Zealand, which had stayed largely virus-free for most of the pandemic until a Delta outbreak in mid-August, reported 44 new local cases, up from 29 on Thursday.
Oct 8, 2021 416 Ex-Nazi camp guard, 100, on trial in Germany for 3,518 deaths

Leon Schwarzbaum, who is 100 years old, sat quietly waiting for the trial to start in the courtroom, showing reporters a photo of him with his parents and uncle, who all died in Auschwitz.
Oct 8, 2021 417 Nobel Prize Awarded for Research About Temperature and Touch

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly on Monday to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, two scientists who independently discovered key mechanisms of how people sense heat, cold, touch and their own bodily movements. …
Oct 8, 2021 418 More than 150 global business leaders call for end of death penalty

Declaration, part of the Business Leaders Against the Death Penalty campaign, first launched in March by Sir Richard Branson
Oct 8, 2021 419 Republicans’ 2020 recount farce steams ahead despite lack of evidence

Republicans in several states are advancing partisan reviews of the 2020 election results, underscoring how deeply the GOP has embraced the myth of a stolen election since 2020.
Oct 8, 2021 420 Pfizer asks US to approve coronavirus vaccine for children aged 5 to 11

The vaccine is already authorised in teens aged 12 to 15 and fully approved for ages 16 and up, and has been shown to induce a strong immune response in the target age group in a 2,268 participant clinical trial, the companies said on Sept …