A Texas teacher accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student turned herself in to police Wednesday. According to KTRK, AlexandriaVera, 24, of Houston is accused of sexually abusing the boy, who was an eighth-grade student in her English class at Stovall Middle School last summer ... Read more trending stories ... Read more here ... ....
The USGeological Survey has produced an animation showing how the Earth’s temperature has risen from 1850 to the present day – and how it might continue towards a point described by one leading commentator as “the sixth circle of Hell” ... The spiral animation, with the figures for each year building up from a central core, went viral on social media with more than 2.5 million shares on one Facebook page alone....
New research not only suggests an iron dagger buried with King Tutankhamen was made from a meteorite, but the ancient Egyptians knew exactly what they were working with, CNN reported Thursday.Archaeologists and historians have been fascinated with the life and death of the boy-king along with his mummified remains and mysterious objects found in his tomb since their discovery in the 1920s....
NEW YORK (AP) — Forbes has revised the net worth of the woman it crowned America's richest self-made woman last year from $4.5 billion to nothing ... ....
LegendaryBoxerMuhammad Ali was hospitalized today near Phoenix, AZ according to The Associated Press. Two sources were quoted as describing the situation as more serious than his previous hospital visits as he is battling respiratory issues complicated by his Parkinson's disease. Ali had been hospitalized several times over recent years for issues ranging from pneumonia to a severe bacterial infection ... - WN.com, Maureen Foody....
PhilipFrancois, Michael Johnson, Lamarcus Murray and Tavoris Smith had been jailed nearly seven months, after being indicted last Nov ... 1, 2010 ... She presented jurors surveillance video recorded the previous night, which showed Fuller and GregoryCarter meeting in jail with co-defendants Francois and Smith, without the knowledge or permission of those men's lawyers ... ....
The river reached a record high of 8.60 meters in 1910 ... At a meeting with mayor associations, PresidentFrancoisHollande declared a state of emergency in the worst affected areas and promised money to help local authorities deal with the flood damage ... ....
The Orsay Museum, on the left bank of the river, also will be closed. In Nemours, 3,000 people have been evacuated from the town center ...French PresidentFrancoisHollande declared a state of emergency and promised funding to help local authorities deal with floods that have killed two people ... ....
June 3, Paris. Floodwaters in Paris are forecast to peak on Friday with the River Seine due to reach 6m (19ft) above its normal level, reports said ...French PresidentFrancoisHollande said the weather was a serious climate phenomenon and a global challenge ... The OsloTimes ....
Floodwaters in Paris are forecast to peak on Friday with the River Seine due to reach 6m (19ft) above its normal level. The world-famous Louvre and Orsay museums have been shut so staff can move priceless artworks to safety. Flooding across France and Germany has left at least 11 people dead and forced thousands from their homes ...French PresidentFrancoisHollande said the weather was a serious climate phenomenon and a global challenge....
PARIS/LONGJUMEAU. Torrential rain forced thousands of people from their homes south of Paris while the River Seine surged to its highest level for over 30 years in the French capital, shutting down the famed Louvre and Orsay museums and a metro line ... [nL8N18U1US] ... PresidentFrancoisHollande declared a state of emergency in the worst affected areas and promised funding to help local authorities deal with flood damage ... ... > ....
Paris. The rising waters of the Seine overflowed riverbanks, roads and rail tracks across Paris, forcing authorities at the Louvre to do something they have not done in generations ... Advertisement ... French PresidentFrancoisHollande said a "natural disaster" will be formally declared next week for areas most affected by the flooding — and a separate fund will help villages and small towns deal with the damage ... AP. ....
Paris. Floods in Germany and France have killed at least 10 people and forced thousands from their homes, officials said on Thursday as Paris' Louvre museum announced it would move treasures out of reach of the swollen Seine... The horse made its own way back to safety, police said ... (Photo. AFP) ... French PresidentFrancoisHollande said a state of "natural catastrophe" would be declared when the cabinet meets next Wednesday ... ....
The rising waters of the Seine overflowed riverbanks, roads and rail tracks across Paris on Thursday, forcing authorities at the Louvre to do something they have not done in generations ... ( Read also ... French PresidentFrancoisHollande said a "natural disaster" will be formally declared next week for areas most affected by the flooding — and a separate fund will help villages and small towns deal with the damages ... ....
France is in the midst of historic flooding; the rising waters are so extreme and severe that officials have had to move iconic artwork in the Louvre to prevent it from becoming damaged or destroyed. France’s Seine river burst its banks this week, following days of heavy rains in the country ... The move was announced by France’s PresidentFrancoisHollande in a statement to French media on Thursday ... [Communiqué de presse]....