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Thunderstorms and one tornado struck central Alabama on Thursday, killing at least six people. In a statement to Reuters, an Autauga County Sheriff’s spokeswoman confirmed that six people had died in the storm. “In the storms that ravaged our state, six Alabamans died. My prayers reach out to their families and communities. Our people are accustomed to devastating weather, but they remain resilient. In a tweet, Gov. Kay Ivey said, “We’ll get through it and be stronger for it.” Flying debris hurled by the tornado killed at least four people, said Autauga County Coroner Buster Barber. No further information was…

According to reports in the French media, a number of people were injured in a stabbing incident at a Paris train station before police “rapidly neutralized” the attacker. Media reports citing unnamed police sources state that police fired upon the attacker, who had a knife and injured several people, early Wednesday morning, according to the Associated Press. According to Paris police, the incident at the Gare du Nord station is now over. However, no further details are available at this time. In his tweet, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin also states that a number of people were injured at the station.…

New research suggests that even at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming above preindustrial levels, the Earth will lose nearly half of its glaciers. The shrinking Lewis glacier on Mount Kenya in August. Nearly half of the world’s glaciers outside of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will melt by the century’s end. This is even if the world meets its most ambitious global warming targets. The study, published Thursday in the journal Science, finds that even with just 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming above preindustrial levels, as many as 104,000 of the world’s more than 215,000 mountain…

Beginning in April, families in the Tokyo metropolitan area, including single-parent families, are eligible to receive 1 million yen ($7,700) per child if they relocate to less-populated areas. Children under the age of 18 and dependents over the age of 18 in high school are eligible for incentives. The government has previously used incentives to encourage people to leave. This plan offers three times as much as the current plan. People from various parts of Japan have been migrating to Japan’s urban centers in search of employment opportunities for decades. With approximately 37 million residents, Tokyo is the most populous…

A major winter storm system passed through the United States on Tuesday, dumping sleet, freezing rain, and snow across the Northern Plains and Upper Great Lakes while posing a tornado and flood risk throughout the South. Reuters reports that the National Weather Service (NWS) forecasts heavy snowfall in parts of Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota on Tuesday, accompanied by thunder and more than a foot of snow accumulation is expected. Strong, gusty winds were expected to cause drifting and blowing snow to make road travel virtually impossible in some areas. In addition, snow fog, mist and freezing rain created hazardous…

An unmanned spacecraft from South Korea has returned images of Earth and the moon after reaching the moon’s orbit last month, according to the state space research center. South Korean News Agency (Yonhap) reported that the orbiter performed three lunar orbit insertion (LOI) maneuvers on December 17 in order to lower its speed before entering selenocentric orbit on December 27. During Danuri’s second round of LOI on Dec. 24, the first photo was taken approximately 345 kilometers above the moon, while the second was snapped four days later while rotating around Earth’s satellite, according to the Korea Aerospace Research Institute…

Egyptian officials said Monday that a wooden sarcophagus on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences was returned to Egypt after being looted years ago. Egyptian government efforts to stop the trafficking of antiquities are behind the repatriation. AP reports that Cairo authorities succeeded in returning 5,300 stolen artifacts to Egypt in 2021. Mostafa Waziri, chief of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the sarcophagus dates back to the Late Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt, from 664 B.C. until Alexander the Great’s campaign in 332 B.C. The sarcophagus, almost 3 meters (9.5 feet) tall with a brightly painted top…

ADNEC Group is preparing to host the 16th edition of the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX 2023) as well as the 7th edition of the Naval Defence Exhibition and Conference (NAVDEX 2023), which will be held between February 20-24, 2023, under the patronage of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The events will be organized by the ADNEC Group at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, in association with the Ministry of Defence. They will showcase a broad range of brand-new features and attract leading participants and exhibitors. This year’s IDEX marks the 30th edition of…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said the SCO and G20 presidency by India will build multi-dimensional cooperation among the two countries and strengthen stability and security throughout the world. While India assumed the G20 Presidency on December 1, it also assumed the rotating presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on September 16. Russia and India are celebrating 75 years of diplomatic relations in 2022, according to Putin’s New Year message to Indian President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kremlin officials said that they continue to develop their specially privileged strategic partnership based on a tradition of…

Microsoft has announced that its Excel autocomplete is getting smarter, at least in the web version of Microsoft 365. Last week, the company unveiled formula suggestions and formulas by example, according to The Verge. The two features could help automate various tasks that were previously manual. In Excel for Web, when you enter an equal sign in a cell, it will try to suggest a formula based on the data surrounding it. If you have a column named “total” at the end of your spreadsheet and a row full of quarterly sales data, Excel can suggest adding a range of…