RARE SNOW IN ROME AS ICY BLAST SWEEPS EUROPE

However, the snowfall did cause about 20 flights to be cancelled at Stockholm's Arlanda airport, primarily to European destinations, according to airport operator Swedavia... READ MORE›

ANALYSIS | WATCH AS A 'SAMURAI' DESTROYS AN ARMY OF SNOWMEN WITH A KATANA

That's just less than 25 degrees Fahrenheit, the coldest temperature recorded in the city in 48 years... READ MORE›

EXPLAINED: HOW HEAT AFFECTS ROADS, TRAINS AND PLANES

If you've got high temperatures and low viscosity, and a flushed surface, the traffic may then pick up the road surface... READ MORE›

'NO SURVIVORS' AS BURNING IRANIAN OIL TANKER SINKS NEAR JAPAN

The burning Iranian oil tanker Sanchi has sunk in Japan's exclusive economic zone, according to Chinese state television. The head of the Iranian rescue team... READ MORE›

TRUMP SAYS US 'COULD CONCEIVABLY' REJOIN PARIS CLIMATE PACT

"So we can conceivably go back in," added the president, who announced his intention to pull out of the 2015 accord on curbing global warming emissions last June... READ MORE›

U.S. COULD 'CONCEIVABLY' RETURN TO PARIS CLIMATE DEAL

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States could conceivably return to the Paris climate accord, although he stopped short of signal... READ MORE›

AS U.S. FREEZES, RUSSIA'S STILL WAITING FOR WINTER TO START

Through Christmas and New Year's there were no flakes at all. That hasn't been great news for Russian landscape photographer Ivan Boiko... READ MORE›

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HACKED NEW YORK POST APP SENDS OUT 'HEIL PRESIDENT' ALERT

NEW YORK The New York Post app has been hacked on April Fools' Day, sending out push alert notifications that included Heil President Donald Trump... READ MORE›

ASSANGE TO FACE PROSECUTORS' QUESTIONS AT ECUADOREAN EMBASSY

Prosecutors will finally have a chance to question WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange about allegations concerning possible sex crimes committed in Sweden six years ago... READ MORE›

AFTER THE APOCALYPSE: INSIDE THE ARCTIC VAULT THAT COULD HELP KEEP HUMANITY ALIVE

Earlier this month, seeds stored inside the so-called Doomsday Vault were withdrawn for the first time... READ MORE›

HUNDREDS DIE IN HEAT WAVE IN SOUTHERN PAKISTAN

The Pakistan Rangers Sindh, a paramilitary force that otherwise fights crime in Karachi, has set up 10 heatstroke relief centers across the city... READ MORE›

NORTHEAST IS WARMING FASTER THAN THE REST OF THE WORLD

The 2 degree mark is considered the point of no return for catastrophic effects of global warming... READ MORE›

6 HURT AS VEHICLE CRASHES INTO PEDESTRIANS

LONDON AP -- British police say they have arrested a woman after a car collided with pedestrians outside a Newcastle sports center, injuring six people... READ MORE›

TERMINALLY ILL 5-YEAR-OLD BOY DIES IN SANTA'S ARMS

The Knoxville News-Sentinel reports Eric Schmitt-Matzen, who does about 80 events a year as Santa, was asked a few weeks ago to visit the dying boy... READ MORE›

NATIONS STRIKE HISTORIC DEAL ON CLIMATE CHANGE

It seeks to limit rising temperatures to within 2 degrees Celsius 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit compared to pre-industrial levels through the year 2100... READ MORE›

HEAT IN INDIA SETS A RECORD 1238 DEGREES

India's former record high was 60 years ago, when temperatures reached 123 degrees Fahrenheit in Alwar, also a city in Rajasthan... READ MORE›

OUR SWELTERING CITIES WILL PAY A HEAVY PRICE

With temperatures touching 119 degrees Fahrenheit 48 degrees Celsius in the Arizona city, some jets couldn't generate enough lift... READ MORE›

'STOP CALLING ME EBOLA NURSE', SAYS KACI HICKOX

Stop calling me ebola nurse says kaci hickox... READ MORE›

YOUNG WOMAN 'FREEZES TO DEATH' IN CRYOTHERAPY CHAMBER

Officials have told the family of Chelsea Ake-Salvacion 24 of Las Vegas that she would have died in seconds... READ MORE›

'INFERNO WORLD': HOT JUPITER EXOPLANET IS 4 TIMES HOTTER THAN VENUS

Its atmosphere is estimated to have a temperature of a scorching 2,000 degrees Celsius... READ MORE›

GUNMEN ROB BUS FULL OF FEDERAL POLICE IN MEXICO

MEXICO CITY AP -- Authorities in Mexico say gunmen have assaulted and robbed a bus full of federal police... READ MORE›

AUSTRIA SEARCHES FREIGHT TRAINS IN NEW FRONTLINE ON ILLEGAL MIGRATION

In another recent case, a group of people had been locked into a freight train wagon in Turkey and were found barely alive in Austria... READ MORE›

'LUCIFER' HEAT WAVE KEEPS PARTS OF EUROPE IN RED ALERT

The high temperatures came as a shock to Australian Mira Balic, who was visiting Serbia at a time when it's winter in the Southern Hemisphere... READ MORE›

European summer temperatures have increased a lot over the last 10 or 15 years, he said... READ MORE›

OFFICIALS: SEA LION PULLS MAN INTO SAN DIEGO BAY

Officials Sea lion pulls man into San Diego bay AP 4 58 a... READ MORE›

OFFICIAL: SIEGE OF GUNMEN IN SOMALI HOTEL ENDS, 17 DEAD

Al-Shabab controlled much of Mogadishu between 2007 and 2011, but was pushed out of Somalia's capital and other major cities by African Union forces... READ MORE›

PHILIPPINE POLICE VAN RAMS PROTESTERS IN FRONT OF U.S. EMBASSY

MANILA, Philippines -- A police van has rammed into protesters, leaving several bloodied, as an anti-U.S. rally turned violent at the American Embassy in Manila... READ MORE›

OHIO BOY, 8, DRIVES DAD'S VAN TO GET MCDONALD'S BURGER

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BRUTAL HEAT WAVE IN INDIA PUTS 330 MILLION PEOPLE AT RISK

India is in the grips of a monstrous pre-monsoon heat wave that has killed more than 160 people in recent weeks... READ MORE›

U.S., U.K. EMBASSIES WARN OF THREAT TO WESTERNERS IN CHINA

Beijing police also announced Thursday that they had issued a yellow security alert to ensure safety during the Christmas period... READ MORE›

CLIMATE ENVOYS STEP UP PACE OF WORK WITHOUT SUPPORT FROM TRUMP

We are 15 years or so away from busting the 1.5 degree Celsius budget, said Piers Forster, a professor of climate change at the University of Leeds... READ MORE›

PARIS ROLLS OUT ANTI-POLLUTION MEASURES AMID EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE

Heat slams Europe The rise in pollution was linked to a heat wave that was already breaking records across Europe... READ MORE›

POLICE IN SPAIN LINK THREE RENTAL VANS TO MAIN FUGITIVE IN VEHICLE ATTACKS

Another was found in Vic, 70 kilometers 44 miles north of Barcelona on the road to Ripoll, where all the main attack suspects lived... READ MORE›

MURDER COMPLAINTS FILED OVER CAPSIZED PHILIPPINE FERRY

Tan said murder complaints were filed against ferry owner Joge Bung Zarco, boat captain Warren Oliverio and 17 other crew members... READ MORE›

WOMAN FINDS 4 URNS IN RECENTLY PURCHASED USED CAR

Davidson found four urns buried under photo albums, social security documents and other paperwork... READ MORE›

REPORT: BUS EXPLODES IN JERUSALEM, WOUNDING 16

Mayor Nir Barkat said on Channel 2 News that Jerusalem residents, all Israelis, need to be vigilant... READ MORE›

CANADIAN ACCUSED OF MASTERMINDING ALPHABAY, WORLD'S LEADING 'DARKNET' SITE, FOUND DEAD IN A THAI JAIL

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