Citing a surge in the Delta coronavirus variant, the University of Texas at San Antonio has announced that students will spend the first three weeks of the fall semester studying mostly in virtual classes. The university of 30,000 students was set to begin its fall semester on Aug. 23 with in-person classes, but city public health officials have raised risk […]

A monitoring station on the Italian island of Sicily reached a scorching temperature of 48.8 degrees Celsius, or 119.84 degrees Fahrenheit, on Wednesday. If verified by the World Meteorological Organization, it would mark the hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe, topping the previous record of 48 degrees set in Athens in July 1977. Though long accustomed to the summer heat, […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Where COVID-19 has precipitated unprecedented debts, climate change could trigger defaults across a planet which a United Nations panel says is dangerously close to runaway warming.FILE PHOTO: Fire rages in Giarratana, on the island of Sicily, Italy, August 11, 2021. REUTERS/Antonio ParrinelloTo avert disaster, countries are committing to carbon cutting steps. But these will be costly and […]

A DELIVERY driver caused fury when he left a note for a non-tipping customer reminding them he doesn't work "for free". DoorDash worker Esmond Fountain said if the habitual non-tipper kept it up then they "should pick up [the food] yourself" in a video that's now gone viral on TikTok. The desperate driver went on: "Who do you think you […]

The former partner of a woman being sentencing for poisoning their toddler plans to “look straight through her” in court tomorrow. The woman, who has name suppression, admitted to poisoning her son on multiple occasions over an 11-day period in August 2019. The child, who was 15 months old at that time, was left with brain damage after she fed […]

A "QANON-obsessed" dad is accused of killing his two kids with a spear gun believing that they were "serpent monsters," cops said. Matthew Coleman, 40, who owns a surfing school in California, reportedly admitted to the FBI that he killed the two children in Mexico on Monday. He told FBI agents that he took his 2-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter […]

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Inland Revenue’s Wellington office has been deemed potentially earthquake-prone with the owner of the building given 12 months to prove otherwise. The government department sent 1000 staff home from the Asteron Centre on Featherston St one month ago after a new seismic assessment found the building had a lower earthquake rating than first thought. The building has previously been advertised […]

TWITTER users who signed on to the social media platform on August 11, 2021 noticed a difference on the app. The tech giants rolled out a new font to the app's feed. Did Twitter change the font? Twitter is changing out its standard font to the Chirp font, although some users may not be able to see it just yet. […]