2+ hour, 10+ min ago  (437+ words) France experienced its hottest spring on record, the French weather service said on Tuesday, after an exceptional early heat wave that also broke highs for the season in England and Wales. Meteo-France said the average nationwide temperature over March to…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (741+ words) Forecasters in Europe yesterday warned of exceptional heat as record temperatures driven by a "heat dome" push temperatures well above seasonal norms across the continent. The surge follows a record-breaking Monday, with France logging its hottest day in the month…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (473+ words) Turkey yesterday said it was sending charter flights to Israel to repatriate Gaza flotilla activists, after Israeli forces detained them in scenes that sparked international condemnation. "We plan to bring our citizens and participants from third countries to Turkey via…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (578+ words) No special menu, no themed decorations and no shared suspense over which musician's flamboyant performance proves victorious. For the first time in seven years, Silvia Diaz did not get together with friends to watch the Eurovision Song Contest finals yesterday....

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (583+ words) For nearly three decades, performances by Cuba's Danza Voluminosa regularly filled prestigious venues like the 2, 000-seat National Theater. Directed by Juan Miguel Mas, the troupe pioneered a new movement by working exclusively with larger-bodied dancers " a creative process that was…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (291+ words) A passenger from the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius cruise ship is in hospital quarantine, Taiwanese health authorities said yesterday. The person, a New Zealand national, arrived in Taiwan on Thursday last week after disembarking from the cruise ship in St Helena…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (338+ words) A passenger who was aboard a hantavirus-infected cruise ship is in quarantine in Taiwan and has so far tested negative for hantavirus and Andes virus, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said today. The traveler arrived in Taiwan on Thursday last…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago  (597+ words) A French woman infected in a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung, a doctor at the Paris hospital caring for the sickened passenger said on Tuesday. The outbreak has reached…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (573+ words) An American national and a French woman evacuated from the cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak have tested positive, officials said yesterday, as the complex operation to repatriate those on board continued. The French woman, one of five…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (417+ words) Occupants of a cruise ship struck by a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has sparked international alarm began flying home from Spain's Canary Islands yesterday in a complex repatriation operation. Three passengers from the MV Hondius " a Dutch husband and wife…...