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On Sunday night, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change dropped an urgent report on the state of global warming. Simply put: The laws of the physical universe say that we can keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the optimistic goal set out in the Paris ...

Titan, the largest of Saturn’s more than 60 moons, has surprisingly intense rainstorms, according to research by a team of UCLA planetary scientists and geologists. Although the storms are relatively rare — they occur less than once per Titan year, which is 29 and a half Earth years — they ...

Zika also may have serious effects on the heart, new research shows in the first study to report cardiovascular complications related to this virus, according to data being presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 66th Annual Scientific Session. In a study at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Caracas, ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] The report outlines a strategy for bringing home billions of dollars from offshore affiliates while avoiding federal income taxes on the earnings. NYT > Business Day

By SCOTT SHANE October 10, 2016 WASHINGTON — The vaunted propaganda operations of the Islamic State, which helped lure more than 30,000 foreign fighters to Syria and Iraq, have dropped off drastically as the extremist group has come under military pressure, according to a study by terrorism researchers at West Point. In ...

A captain can win the Ryder Cup with six rookies on his 12-man team. Colin Montgomerie and the Europeans did it as recently as 2010, playing at home at a soggy Celtic Manor in Wales. But since 1979, when the Ryder Cup entered its modern phase by becoming Europe versus ...

Japan’s leasing firm Orix will invest in Vietnam’s Bitexco Power in mid-September as it seeks to tap growing electricity demand in the Southeast Asian country, Nikkei Asian Review reported Thursday. The Japanese company will take an over 10 percent joint stake in Bitexco with Singapore’s United Overseas Bank in a ...

Special Report: Italian Grand Prix By BRAD SPURGEON September 2, 2016 Formula One returns this weekend to the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, the spiritual home of Ferrari, the biggest and historically most successful team in the series. But with the formerly dominant Ferrari in yet another of its occasional periods of ...

North Korea publicly executed two senior officials in August of 2016, according to reports. USA TODAY A North Korean defector testifies at a meeting of the International Parliamentarians Coalition for North Korean Refugees and Human Rights (IPCNKR) in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 30, 2016.(Photo: YONHAP, EPA) North Korea has publicly ...

Japanese insurer Tokio Marine Holdings plans to add agricultural, auto and life insurance policies to its offerings in Vietnam, the Nikkei Asian Review reported Thursday. The Tokyo-based company will develop the agricultural insurance, which is not yet available in Vietnam, with a Vietnamese university, the newspaper said. It said the ...