July2017

News Hour: Fox Sports fired Jamie Horowitz, its president of national networks, on Monday, according to a memo sent to employees, which provided no reasons for the dismissal but did emphasize the importance of “professional conduct.”...

News Hour: A boiler explosion at a Bangladeshi garment plant near the city of Dhaka killed 10 people and injured dozens, emergency workers said on Tuesday, the latest industrial tragedy to hit one of the world’s...

News Hour: The estate of J.R.R. Tolkien has settled an $80 million lawsuit against Warner Bros. over the licensing of online games, slot machines and other gambling-related merchandise based on the author’s books “The Hobbit” and...

News Hour: French fashion house Christian Dior marked its 70th anniversary on Monday with a show staged outside the Invalides museum in Paris and inspired by its founder’s travels around the world. On a fern-lined catwalk...

News Hour: The World Health Organization (WHO) on July 2nd, declared the end of the most recent outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The announcement comes 42 days (two...

News Hour: With the help of some of pop and R&B’s biggest names, music producer DJ Khaled’s latest album “Grateful” debuted atop the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart on Monday. “Grateful,” with songs such as...

News Hour: Venus Williams wept at Wimbledon over the “devastation” of a fatal road accident for which she is facing legal action as Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal eased into the second round on Monday. World...

News Hour: Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) expects the in-cabin ban on laptops and other large electronics on direct flights to the United States to be lifted by July 19, state news agency SPA reported on Tuesday....

News Hour: Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate pact could “push the Earth over the brink” and turn it into a hothouse planet like Venus, renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking has...

News Hour: North Korea said on Tuesday it successfully test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) for the first time, which flew a trajectory that experts said could allow a weapon to hit the U.S. state of...