US: EF-1 Tornado Touches Down In Athens, AL, Leaving Devastating Damage

The National Weather Service in Huntsville has confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down in downtown Athens, Alabama, on Saturday night, December 28.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Sightings Across The World 7

Comet C/2023A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), a comet visible only once every 80,000 years has been spotted streaking across skies around the world.

Fallas 2024 - Valencia

Fallas 2024 - Valencia

The municipal falla covered in smoke during the mascletà, at the Valencia City Hall, on March 17, 2024, in Valencia, Valencian Community (Spain). The falleros monuments are already in the streets of Valencia for the celebration of the Fallas of 2024. The cranes, falleros artists and commissions have worked these days so that all the monuments were ready for the 'plantà' of Fallas that concluded yesterday, March 16, at 9 am. On the night of March 19, all the fallas, as is tradition, will burn among fireworks and water jets from the fire department. Photo by Rober Solsona / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Fallas 2024 - Valencia

Fallas 2024 - Valencia

The municipal falla covered in smoke during the mascletà, at the Valencia City Hall, on March 17, 2024, in Valencia, Valencian Community (Spain). The falleros monuments are already in the streets of Valencia for the celebration of the Fallas of 2024. The cranes, falleros artists and commissions have worked these days so that all the monuments were ready for the 'plantà' of Fallas that concluded yesterday, March 16, at 9 am. On the night of March 19, all the fallas, as is tradition, will burn among fireworks and water jets from the fire department. Photo by Rober Solsona / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Fallas 2024 - Valencia

Fallas 2024 - Valencia

The municipal falla covered in smoke during the mascletà, at the Valencia City Hall, on March 17, 2024, in Valencia, Valencian Community (Spain). The falleros monuments are already in the streets of Valencia for the celebration of the Fallas of 2024. The cranes, falleros artists and commissions have worked these days so that all the monuments were ready for the 'plantà' of Fallas that concluded yesterday, March 16, at 9 am. On the night of March 19, all the fallas, as is tradition, will burn among fireworks and water jets from the fire department. Photo by Rober Solsona / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Belgium: Protesting Farmers Arrive At EU Capital Brussels With Tractors 3

Hundreds of farmers arrived at the EU Capital Brussels with tractors on Monday morning, February 26, ahead of the EU agriculture ministers’ meeting. Chaotic scene erupted as police deployed water cannons to deter demonstrators away from EU institutions and rowdy protesters setting fires, dumping manure, and driving their trucks onto roadblocks.

Lang Lang performs in Ljubljana's summer moonlight night

STORY: Lang Lang performs in Ljubljana's summer moonlight night DATELINE: Aug. 9, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:47 LOCATION: Ljubljana CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: various of Lang Lang performing in Manuel de Falla's "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" as the piano soloist STORYLINE: Chinese pianist Lang Lang appeared at Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia, bringing the 70th Ljubljana Festival to a climax on Monday night. Some people were lingering at the main cash register of the Cankar Hall of the Ljubljana Cultural Center where the concert is to take place, expecting to getting a ticket in a last-ditch effort. The festival's official website shows that tickets for the concert have been sold out a few days ago. Lang Lang and conductor Daniel Barenboim led more than 2,000 spectators on a tour of Spain. The Spanish element is the main tone of this concert. Lang Lang is the piano soloist in Manuel de Falla's "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" and Claude Debussy's "Iberia," and Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole