December2016

Israel’s anti-terrorism directorate on Friday issued a travel warning for India, citing an immediate threat of attack to Western and tourist targets, particularly in the south-west of the country. “A particular emphasis should be put on...

News Hour: Cash shortages weeks after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to abolish large currency notes are making allies and members of his ruling party anxious, with some distancing themselves from the move ahead of...

News Hour: Serbia’s centers for housing migrants are completely full, the U.N. refugee agency said, leaving more than a thousand facing a winter sleeping rough in the Balkan country that has become a bottleneck as the...

News Hour: Under U.S. pressure, the leader of Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic on Friday submitted to questioning by prosecutors, after defying a summons for three months, for holding a referendum in violation of a Constitutional Court...

News Hour: Atom interferometry is the most sensitive known technique for measuring gravitational forces and inertial forces such as acceleration and rotation. It’s a mainstay of scientific research and is being commercialized as a means of...

News Hour: European capitals tightened security on Friday ahead of New Year’s celebrations, erecting concrete barriers in city centres and stepping up police numbers after the Islamic State attack in Berlin last week that killed 12...

News Hour: Interactive 3D models of human joints, showing how common medical complaints have arisen and how we are likely to evolve in the future, have been created at Oxford University. The Oxford researchers made the...

News Hour: Nearly a fifth more migrants arrived in Italy by boat this year, setting a record and bringing the three-year total to more than half a million, the Interior Ministry said on Friday. In commenting...

News Hour: In barely a month since the beginning of December, WFP has delivered food or cash to more than a million Nigerians in conflict-affected zones in the Northeast. This means that over half of those...

News Hour: As Donald Trump prepares to take office as U.S. president, another celebrity turned politician is about to take over his “Apprentice” TV show hot seat, and is hoping for higher ratings. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the...