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To Start off Climate
January Smashed Another Global Temperature Record.
This past December was the warmest December on record and the most abnormally warm month on record, too.
This January was the warmest January on record by a large margin while also claiming the title of most anomalously warm month in 135 years of record keeping.
That's the equivalent of a missing area of sea ice almost four times the size of Colorado, and puts this year right in line with a trend of ever decreasing sea ice in the region as the climate warms.
If 2016 sets another global temperature record, that would make it back-to-back-to-back years of record setting hot temperatures.
That doesn't mean every year will set a record, but "it seems to me quite likely that we have taken the next step up to a new level," National Center for Atmospheric Research climate scientist Kevin Trenberth told Climate Central last month.
US stealth jets fly over S. Korea amid N. Korea standoff.
F-22 stealth fighters flew low over South Korea on Wednesday in a clear show of force against North Korea, a day after South Korea's president warned of the North's collapse amid a festering standoff over its nuclear and missile ambitions.
airpower aimed at showing what the United States can do to defend its ally South Korea from potential aggression from North Korea.
Last month it sent a nuclear-capable B-52 bomber to South Korea after North Korea defiantly conducted its fourth nuclear test.
South Korea's president on Tuesday warned North Korea faces collapse if it doesn't abandon its nuclear bomb program, an unusually strong broadside that is certain to infuriate Pyongyang.
In a speech at parliament, President Park Geun-hye said South Korea will take unspecified "stronger and more effective" measures to make North Korea realize its nuclear ambitions will result only in accelerating its "regime collapse."
Eagles of Death Metal perform again in Paris to honour victims.
Eagles of Death Metal returned to Paris Tuesday night for a concert honouring those who were killed and those who survived the November attack in which 90 people were fatally gunned down during a performance by the American rock band.
In a first, new Egyptian schoolbook teaches peace deal with Israel - In other changes to curriculum, Mubarak’s role in Yom Kippur War is played down, content added during Muslim Brotherhood’s rule is removed.
the peace treaty signed between Israel and Egypt in 1979 will for the first time be taught in Egyptian schools, Army Radio reported Tuesday.
The paragraphs describing the subsequent murder of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, who signed the treaty and made a historic speech at the Israeli Knesset, do not mention that he was murdered by activists who objected to the peace accord.
In this photo provided by Egypt's state news agency MENA, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, addresses parliament in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb.
In this photo provided by Egypt's state news agency MENA, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, addresses parliament in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb.
According to Army Radio, the new inclusion of the peace treaty is part of an overarching change in the contents of schoolbooks for all grades announced by the Egyptian Education Ministry two years ago.
Mozart and Salieri 'lost' composition played in Prague.
A piece of Mozart music considered lost for more than 200 years has been performed for the first time since being rediscovered.
Rumours that Salieri fatally poisoned his rival Mozart out of jealousy have long been discounted by historians, but were popularised by several plays and an Oscar-winning film, Amadeus.
Mr Leisinger said the piece is "not great" but "really sheds new light on Mozart's daily life as an opera composer".
"We don't know when any other piece by Mozart is discovered, it could be soon but it could also be after another 100 years." Several Mozart pieces have been re-discovered in recent years, several of them thought to have been written when he was a young boy.
There you have it our Top 5 News of the day.
That's all for today, Thank you.
To Start off Climate
January Smashed Another Global Temperature Record.
This past December was the warmest December on record and the most abnormally warm month on record, too.
This January was the warmest January on record by a large margin while also claiming the title of most anomalously warm month in 135 years of record keeping.
That's the equivalent of a missing area of sea ice almost four times the size of Colorado, and puts this year right in line with a trend of ever decreasing sea ice in the region as the climate warms.
If 2016 sets another global temperature record, that would make it back-to-back-to-back years of record setting hot temperatures.
That doesn't mean every year will set a record, but "it seems to me quite likely that we have taken the next step up to a new level," National Center for Atmospheric Research climate scientist Kevin Trenberth told Climate Central last month.
US stealth jets fly over S. Korea amid N. Korea standoff.
F-22 stealth fighters flew low over South Korea on Wednesday in a clear show of force against North Korea, a day after South Korea's president warned of the North's collapse amid a festering standoff over its nuclear and missile ambitions.
airpower aimed at showing what the United States can do to defend its ally South Korea from potential aggression from North Korea.
Last month it sent a nuclear-capable B-52 bomber to South Korea after North Korea defiantly conducted its fourth nuclear test.
South Korea's president on Tuesday warned North Korea faces collapse if it doesn't abandon its nuclear bomb program, an unusually strong broadside that is certain to infuriate Pyongyang.
In a speech at parliament, President Park Geun-hye said South Korea will take unspecified "stronger and more effective" measures to make North Korea realize its nuclear ambitions will result only in accelerating its "regime collapse."
Eagles of Death Metal perform again in Paris to honour victims.
Eagles of Death Metal returned to Paris Tuesday night for a concert honouring those who were killed and those who survived the November attack in which 90 people were fatally gunned down during a performance by the American rock band.
In a first, new Egyptian schoolbook teaches peace deal with Israel - In other changes to curriculum, Mubarak’s role in Yom Kippur War is played down, content added during Muslim Brotherhood’s rule is removed.
the peace treaty signed between Israel and Egypt in 1979 will for the first time be taught in Egyptian schools, Army Radio reported Tuesday.
The paragraphs describing the subsequent murder of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, who signed the treaty and made a historic speech at the Israeli Knesset, do not mention that he was murdered by activists who objected to the peace accord.
In this photo provided by Egypt's state news agency MENA, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, addresses parliament in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb.
In this photo provided by Egypt's state news agency MENA, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, addresses parliament in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb.
According to Army Radio, the new inclusion of the peace treaty is part of an overarching change in the contents of schoolbooks for all grades announced by the Egyptian Education Ministry two years ago.
Mozart and Salieri 'lost' composition played in Prague.
A piece of Mozart music considered lost for more than 200 years has been performed for the first time since being rediscovered.
Rumours that Salieri fatally poisoned his rival Mozart out of jealousy have long been discounted by historians, but were popularised by several plays and an Oscar-winning film, Amadeus.
Mr Leisinger said the piece is "not great" but "really sheds new light on Mozart's daily life as an opera composer".
"We don't know when any other piece by Mozart is discovered, it could be soon but it could also be after another 100 years." Several Mozart pieces have been re-discovered in recent years, several of them thought to have been written when he was a young boy.
There you have it our Top 5 News of the day.
That's all for today, Thank you.
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