Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 19th August 2017 at 14:45 (about 1 hour ago)
Pakistani soldiers on Saturday carried the flag-draped coffin of German-born Catholic nun Ruth Pfau to a state funeral where she was honored after devoting her life to eradicating leprosy in the country. Widely known as Pakistan's Mother Teresa, Pfau died last week in the southern city of Karachi at age 87. Mourners paid their last respects as Pfau's coffin was carried to the Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre that she founded before being taken on to St. Patrick's Cathedral for the official service. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 19th August 2017 at 13:15 (about 3 hours ago)
The weather wizards at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have added the effects of the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse to one of their newest, highest-resolution computer models. The result is a gorgeously detailed view of how the eclipse will cause a decrease in incoming solar radiation as it crosses the country on Monday, from the Pacific Northwest to the Southeast. Scientists at a NOAA laboratory in Boulder, Colorado added the eclipse's path to a computer model known as the "High-Resolution Rapid Refresh" or "HRRR" model. They released a simulation of the eclipse on Thursday, and starting Saturday, the model will start incorporating the eclipse in its real-time forecasts. SEE ALSO: How to watch the total solar eclipse from anywhere on Earth The eclipse algorithm was developed by a University of Barcelona team and shared by the National Center for Atmospheric Research. It calculates how much of the sun will be obscured by the moon at each point. The HRRR model breaks the country down into boxes with a width of just about 2 miles. Image: noaa/esrlAs the incoming solar radiation changes with the eclipse, the model simulates how that will affect the weather. The eclipse can cause drops in temperature or even weakening thunderstorms temporarily, since they thrive in hot and humid conditions triggered by sunshine. In a simulation using the weather on August 4, the researchers found that the eclipse will primarily affect temperatures by cooling a widespread area of the country by up to 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit. Such areas will experience a partial eclipse. For the 70-mile-wide swath of the nation that will experience a total solar eclipse, the temperature impacts will be more significant, the model projects. Along the path of the full eclipse, the model shows that temperatures will drop between 5 and 12 degrees Fahrenheit. WATCH: Here?s how many people in the U.S. will possibly see the eclipse #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 19th August 2017 at 13:15 (about 3 hours ago)
White nationalists had gathered in the Virginia city to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 19th August 2017 at 13:15 (about 3 hours ago)
The ?Boston Free Speech Rally,? is scheduled for Saturday, just one week after a protest at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., turned deadly. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 19th August 2017 at 13:15 (about 3 hours ago)
The moon is slowly moving away from the Earth, and one distant day, it will be too small to block the sun entirely. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 19th August 2017 at 11:45 (about 4 hours ago)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Transit officials have decided to alter subway station tiles that have a cross-like design similar to that of the Confederate flag. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 19th August 2017 at 11:45 (about 4 hours ago)
By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will return on Saturday after three months medical leave in Britain where he was treated for an unspecified ailment, a presidential spokesman said. Buhari's medical leave, his second this year, began on May 7. Buhari, who took office in May 2015, handed over power to his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo, in his absence to allay concerns of a void at the helm of Africa's biggest economy. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 19th August 2017 at 11:45 (about 4 hours ago)
Yhoana Arteaga was found bludgeoned to death in her family's mobile home with her clothing "in disarray", police said. There was no evidence of forced entry to the trailer in Nashville, Tennessee. The girl had suffered blunt force trauma to her body, police spokesman Don Aaron told a press conference. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 19th August 2017 at 11:45 (about 4 hours ago)
Children are particularly vulnerable in the conflicts raging around the globe, according to a draft UN report that specifically pointed the finger of blame in Yemen at the Saudi-led coalition. The draft of an annual UN report on the impact of armed conflict on children lists the countries and entities accused of recruiting child soldiers and using children as weapons of war. "I am highly concerned by the scale and severity of the grave violations that were committed against children in 2016, which included alarming levels of killing and maiming, recruitment and use and denial of humanitarian access," Secretary General Antonio Guterres says in the draft seen by AFP. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 19th August 2017 at 11:45 (about 4 hours ago)
'Boston Free Speech Rally' activists and counterprotesters gather in Boston Common drawing thousands a week after a demonstration in Virginia turned deadly. #