On January 19, Nick Willis wrote himself into the record books when he ran a 3:58.63 mile. His time marked the 19th consecutive calendar year that the 37-year-old Kiwi runner has clocked a sub-4-minute mile. A middle-distance specialist, Willis has sub-4 miles every year since 2003—and even the two years before that, he clocked a…Continue Reading
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Mexico posted a record spike in coronavirus cases on Friday, with 21,366 newly confirmed infections, about double the daily rate of increase just a week ago. The country also recorded 1,106 more deaths. It was unclear if the spike was due to the presence of the U.K. virus variant, of which…Continue Reading
Navigation for News Categories A record low number of properties for sale is being blamed for the country’s continually high house prices. The total pool of properties available for sale in New Zealand fell to record lows in December 2020, REINZ says. Photo: RNZ The Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) says that the…Continue Reading
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The United States hit a new record for coronavirus cases Friday, notching nearly 290,000 in a span of 24 hours, according to a real-time tally by Johns Hopkins University. The country, the hardest-hit in the world by the COVID-19 pandemic, also recorded 3,676 virus deaths in the same day, the Baltimore-based…Continue Reading
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County surpassed 10,000 deaths from the coronavirus Wednesday as California also hit a record high number of fatalities. The governor also announced the first detected case of the new and apparently more contagious variant of…Continue Reading
Publishedduration7 hours agoimage copyrightThe Studio 17image captionEast Midlands Airport handles passengers and freight separatelyThe UK’s largest pure cargo airport had its busiest ever period in the run-up to Christmas, bosses have said.In November, East Midlands Airport (EMA) processed its highest number of goods in a month at 41,613 tonnes, a 26.4% increase on last year.…Continue Reading
Navigation for News Categories New Zealanders have set a new record for the amount of transactions per second today. Transactions peaked at 204 per second during the lunch hour on Christmas Eve (file photo). Photo: 123RF As of 2pm, $166 million had been put through the tills. The busiest time of the day has likely…Continue Reading
Migrant workers at a seafood market in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand. Photo: Reuters Most of the migrant workers in Samut Sakhon are from bordering Myanmar, which has reported more than 114,000 cases Provincial Governor Veerasak Vichitsaengsri said Samut Sakhon will enforce travel restrictions and shut down businesses Topic | Disease Published: 1:20am, 20 Dec, 2020 Updated:…Continue Reading
Just how warm Earth stays this December will determine if 2020 goes down as the hottest year on record. And it’s looking a lot like it will.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calculated Monday that last month globally was the second hottest November on record, behind only 2015. Yet NASA and a European climate monitoring group said it…Continue Reading
(Reuters) – A record number of journalists were imprisoned during 2020, as governments cracked down on coverage of the coronavirus pandemic or tried to suppress reporting of civil unrest, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Tuesday.At least 274 journalists were in jail as of Dec. 1, the most since the New York-based group…Continue Reading
Reuters / Brendan McDermid US stocks erased early losses and closed at record highs as Congress inched closer to a stimulus compromise and coronavirus vaccinations began in the UK.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell seemingly eased in his opposition to a $908 billion proposal supported by Democrats and Republicans, saying Tuesday that members of both parties…Continue Reading
