December2016

News Hour: “Poorly managed migration could contribute to the global impact of AIDS, but migration itself is not a cause for the disease,” said IOM Director General William Lacy Swing on World AIDS Day, December 1....

News Hour: Construction of the world’s first full-size replica of the Titanic has begun in China, state media reported on Thursday, where it is expected to enjoy smoother sailing as a lakeside tourist draw than its...

News Hour: Amputees who played computer games using a virtual, on-screen arm, experienced relief from the phantom pain that often afflicts people who have lost a limb, scientists said on Friday. Fourteen amputees who took part...

News Hour: Be Glam, a local app that gets women red carpet ready at a click of a button hosted the first ever Bollywood Masterclass in Manchester on Sunday with B town beauty Jacqueline Fernandez and...

News Hour: Tokyo stocks opened lower on Friday as investors turned cautious ahead of the release of US jobs data and a key Italian vote, with the benchmark index edging down from its high for the...

News Hour: Russia’s athletics ban will run into 2017 and may include the August world championships after a Task Force monitoring the nation’s anti-doping programme refused on Thursday to put any dates on a “road map”...

News Hour: Bob Dylan was conspicuously absent from the Oval Office Wednesday, but President Barack Obama hosted four of America’s other 2016 Nobel Laureates, all of whom were migrants. Characteristically, Dylan left Obama — like the...

News Hour: Rap superstar Drake has dominated Spotify for the second straight year, ending 2016 as the most streamed artist and with both the most heard album and song. The world’s leading streaming service, releasing figures...

News Hour: A minute’s silence for the Chapecoense football players killed in a plane disaster in Colombia will be held before every Champions League and Europa League game next week, UEFA said Thursday. “This tragedy has...

News Hour: Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho lauded his players’ “beautiful football” after they overwhelmed West Ham United 4-1 to set up a League Cup semi-final date with Hull City. United are toiling in the Premier...