News Hour: The sculpture “The Sphere Plaza Fountain,” which stood in front of New York’s World Trade Center before the September 11, 2001 attacks, is set to return to the site, reports BSS. Unveiled in 1971,...

News Hour: A US think-tank said on Friday it may have identified a secret North Korean gas centrifuge plant used in the early stages of the nuclear-armed country’s illicit uranium enrichment efforts, reports BSS. The Institute...

News Hour: Facebook said on Wednesday that, the number of users of its Messenger application had topped one billion, a key milestone as it seeks to expand the platform to new services, reports BSS. The growth...

News Hour: An amphibious plane crashed into a highway bridge on the edge of Chinese commercial hub Shanghai on Wednesday, killing at least five people, according to local media reports. The plane, owned by charter airline...

News Hour: British Prime Minister Theresa May is heading to Berlin on Wednesday and Paris on Thursday to start thrashing out the roadmap for Britain’s departure from the EU, reports BSS. In her first foreign visits,...

News Hour: Several beaches in the Los Angeles area were shut down on Tuesday after nearly 2.5 million gallons (9.5 million liters) of sewage spilled out from a ruptured line, officials said, reports BSS. The spill...

News Hour: Florida health officials said on Tuesday they were investigating a possible case of Zika that was not contracted while traveling to a region affected by the mosquito-borne virus, suggesting an outbreak may be under...

News Hour: France’s National Assembly voted in the early hours of Wednesday to extend the country’s state of emergency for six months following last week’s massacre in Nice, reports BSS. The state of emergency has been...

News Hour: Seventeen soldiers were killed and 35 wounded in central Mali on Tuesday in an assault on their base that authorities called a “coordinated terrorist attack”, reports BSS. “The toll has increased: we have lost...

News Hour: Tokyo was struck by a third earthquake in four days on Wednesday, but there were no reports of damage or casualties, reports BSS. The 5.0 magnitude jolt was felt in Tokyo and areas of...