More than 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm that could deliver snow as far south ...
China has executed a man who killed 35 people by plowing his car into crowds at a sports center in November, in the country’s deadliest known attack against the public in a decade, state media ...
The message seemed designed to reach Washington as one administration prepares to hand the baton to the next: If the United States keeps messing with Venezuela, then Caracas will retaliate by ...
A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government ...
Chinese leader Xi Jinping may not have personally accepted US President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to his inauguration, but Beijing has taken the rare step of dispatching a top official to ...
More than 80 people were killed in the country’s northeast over the weekend following the government’s failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army, a Colombian ...
Carrying her small daughter, an Israeli mother stood amid a crowd of people next to the helipad of the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv, which on Sunday received the three former hostages released in ...
Israel’s longest war has so far failed to destroy its main enemy, Hamas, which, despite suffering devastating losses, is framing the Gaza ceasefire agreement as a victory for itself – and ...
Most of the United States is being assailed with extreme winter weather this week as Arctic air blasts south from Canada, snow tracks up the Northeast coast and a potentially crippling winter storm ...
The longest college football season in history has just one game remaining. 132 teams have seen their seasons come to an end, and now only two remain: Notre Dame and Ohio State.Διαβάστε ...
At least 70 people were killed and more injured in northern Nigeria on Saturday when a petrol tanker truck overturned, spilling fuel that exploded, the country’s national emergency agency ...
Ουάσιγκτον, ΗΠΑ: Ο Πρόεδρος Ντόναλντ Τραμπ μοιράζει τις πένες του μετά την υπογραφή Εκτελεστικού Διατάγματος για τη σύσταση της Επιτροπής Θρησκευτικής Ελευθερίας, κατά τη διάρκεια εκδήλωσης για την Εθνική Ημέρα Προσευχής στον Κήπο των Ρόδων του Λευκού Οίκου. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
Ήξερες ότι...
Οι φράουλες ανήκουν στην οικογένεια των ρόδων και όχι των μούρων.
Ιδρύεται το «Ελεύθερο Κράτος του Κονγκό», ως προσωπικό φέουδο του Βασιλιά Λεοπόλδου Β΄ του Βελγίου.
1933
Gleichschaltung: Το ναζιστικό καθεστώς αναστέλλει τη λειτουργία των εργατικών σωματείων στη Γερμανία.
1955
Ο Τένεσι Ουίλιαμς τιμάται με βραβείο Πούλιτζερ για το θεατρικό του έργο Λυσσασμένη Γάτα.
1997
Το Εργατικό Κόμμα κερδίζει τις βουλευτικές εκλογές στο Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο, τερματίζοντας μια περίοδο 18 ετών διακυβέρνησης από τους Συντηρητικούς. Ο ηγέτης του, Τόνι Μπλερ, γίνεται ο νεότερος πρωθυπουργός από την εποχή του Ουίλιαμ Πιτ του νεότερου.
