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Australia likely to set December heat record, prompting fire bans and health warnings
Australia looks set to sweat through one of its hottest Decembers ever, the national weather bureau said on Friday, prompting fire bans, health warnings and big crowds trying to cool off at beaches. As the country's hottest town, Marble Bar in the remote northwest, endured ...
A family member says America's oldest World War II veteran who was also believed to be oldest living man in the U.S. has died in Texas. Richard Overton was 112. Shirley Overton, whose husband was Richard's cousin, says the Army veteran died Thursday evening at ...
Sota Fujii, 16, becomes youngest shogi player to reach 100 wins
Sixteen-year-old shogi prodigy Sota Fujii secured his 100th official match victory Wednesday, becoming the youngest professional player of the Japanese board game to reach the milestone in addition to doing so at the fastest pace in history. Fujii has taken the shogi world by storm ...
Wheelchair ramp jump tops list of new Guinness World Records for 2018
Guinness World Records celebrates its annual records day on Thursday, honoring a long list of people who have done highly improbable things better than anyone else. The World Records Day often includes a Rubik's cube solved in unlikely circumstances against the clock, and this year ...
Winning lottery ticket sold in South Carolina for $1.5 billion jackpot
Only one ticket matched all six numbers in the U.S. Mega Millions lottery for a jackpot of $1.5 billion, just short of a world record, an official said on Wednesday. The ticket was sold in Simpsonville, South Carolina, at a KC Mart convenience store, the ...
The U.S. Mega Millions jackpot grew to $1.6 billion, a world record for a lottery, after Friday's drawing produced no winner of the grand prize, officials said. The next Mega Millions draw will be on Tuesday, after no one hit all of the numbers of ...
1945 Romanee-Conti French wine auctioned for record-smashing $558,000
A bottle of 1945 Romanee-Conti wine fetched a record-smashing $558,000 at an auction held at Sotheby's in New York Saturday, which saw two bottles break the previous record. The final price, including taxes and commissions, was 17 times the auction house's $32,000 upper estimate for ...
Eastern Japan's summer hottest since 1946, meteorological agency says
The summer this year in eastern Japan proved to be the hottest on record since 1946, the Meteorological Agency said Monday. The average temperature in the region in the three-month period from June to August exceeded the average level seen across past records by 1.7 ...
Drake's new album, "Scorpion," has smashed streaming recordsm, with Apple Music and Spotify both reporting unprecedented listenership in its first day. Apple Music said on Instagram that the Canadian hip-hop superstar's fifth studio album was streamed 170 million times in the 24 hours since its ...
