A photo taken during trade talks between the US and China has gone viral on Chinese social media. Interpreted by many as symbol of the changing of the global guard, the picture reveals US negotiators looking far older than their Chinese counterparts.
Lava flow from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano reached the Pacific Ocean on Sunday (May 20), resulting in billowing white clouds as the molten rock interacted with water. Unfortunately, lava quickly cooling in water creates a byproduct known as “laze,” a combination of lava and haze. The puffy clouds lifting up from the ocean are actually filled with toxic gases and small pieces of volcanic glass.
Hawaii’s Mount Kilauea volcano erupted once again yesterday, spewing ash more than 30,000 feet in the air.
The British royal wedding between Prince Harry and American actor Meghan Markel, happening this Saturday (May 19), has brought with it the deluge of memorabilia and ephemera for Brits, tourists and even those watching the ceremony from across the pond. Beyond the decorative plates and mugs, there are also a few things both distinctly British or just very 2018.
A picture taken from the International Space Station in December shows a small but stunning sliver of the commercial fishing industry.
The United States’ new embassy is proving painfully costly: The AP reports that more than 50 protestors were shot and killed in Gaza today by the Israeli military, during demonstrations against the embassy’s symbolic move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. More than 1,200 were injured, many by gunfire and tear gas. Both Israelis and Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their capital.
Russia’s newly re-inaugurated president Vladimir Putin took to the ice for an exhibition hockey game on Thursday (May 10) alongside many former NHL stars. The “Legends of Hockey” game is broadcast annually on Russian state television. The yearly tradition is also a rare spectacle in which the Russian leader chooses to share the spotlight.
Mike Pompeo was back in North Korea this week for the second time, finalizing plans for a June 12 summit between the US and North Korea, which will take place in Singapore. The US secretary of state also worked to ensure the release of three Americans who had been imprisoned in North Korea.
Tourists are flocking to a replica of Korea’s Truce Village to recreate the historic handshake between South Korean president Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
A newly released image from NASA, showing the volatile areas created by Mount Kilauea’s recent eruption on Hawaii’s Big Island, also offers a look at the island’s history of volcanic activity.
Vladimir Putin spent much of Monday alone, it looks like. On the first day of his fourth term, state media photographs emphasized the Russian president moving through events in solitude. He was seen working alone in his office, walking through the Kremlin unaccompanied and standing on stage reviewing a military parade, with no one near his side.
After keeping residents on watch for several days after a series of hundreds of earthquakes on Hawaii’s Big Island, Mount Kilauea, one of Hawaii’s most active volcanoes, erupted on May 4. Officials issued a mandatory evacuation for around 1,500 people on the east end of the island,the AP reports.
Update, May 4, 10:30am ET: Mount Kilauea has erupted, around 1,500 people have been ordered to evacuate.
As China’s middle class has ballooned, eclipsing that of the US in 2015, so have the massive theme parks sprouting up to capture the imaginations and wallets of these newly wealthy individuals.
Emmanuel Macron brought a thoughtful gift to the White House last week: an oak sapling from a World War I battlefield north of Paris. While the tree looked a bit barren, the French president’s gift resulted in a feel-good photo op with his wife Brigitte and hosts Donald and Melania Trump.
A group of Central American migrants converged at the US-Mexico border yesterday (April 30), the culmination of their week-long journey through Mexico. Their journey north has been a target of Donald Trump’s ire for weeks; as Reuters reported, the US president warned at an April 28 rally: “Watch the caravan… they come up because they know once they can get here they can walk right into our country.”
A small bit of staging reveals a very big difference in how the president of the US relates to two of America’s most important allies.
For two countries divided by more than half a century of war, North and South Korea’s historic summit looks surprisingly free of acrimony.
This morning, US president Donald Trump boasted about “incredible” photos of his new secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. At the time of the men’s secret meeting over Easter weekend, which was confirmed last week, Pompeo was director of the CIA.
It’ll be years before Melania Trump’s official portrait hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. Until then, wax will have to do.
Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron tested out a wide variety of grabs, pats and pulls at the White House today (April 24) in the latest installment of their handsy cross-Atlantic power play.
During his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump scoffed at the idea of holding White House state dinners, the most elaborate of events staged in the US president’s home.
April 12th is the International Day of Human Spaceflight, a day set aside by the United Nations for recognizing the “important contribution of space science and technology in achieving sustainable development goals and increasing the well-being of States and peoples.” It is the anniversary of the first human in space, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who orbited the earth in 1961.
A group of German scientists stationed in Antarctica have successfully grown vegetables in a specially designed sunless, soilless environment. Working out of a shipping container-sized lab in an otherwise barren snowscape, the team gathered about 8 pounds of produce from their first yield, the AP reports, including herbs, lettuce, arugula, and red radishes.
