The Chinese government is cracking down on the country's nascent hip-hop scene. The genre recently exploded into the mainstream in China, after the popular Rap of China contest debuted last summer.
Rallies were held in dozens of cities in freezing temperatures as people protested 'pseudo-elections'
Rainwater could combine with ash to form deadly rivers called lahars, which could sweep away settlements
The attack is the largest since May and the second this week
The assault on Save the Children, which has operated in Afghanistan since 1976, is the latest violence to hit a foreign aid group in the country.
Scientists agree that humans, horses and other mammals are descendants of a common, distant ancestor with five fingers per limb.
Authorities began collecting data in 1997, and the previous record high of 22,409 occurred in 2011.
Since industrialization took off in the early 19th century, CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have increased by nearly half, from 280 parts per million to 407 parts per million.
"The day they bring me proof against Bishop Barros, then I will speak," the pope said in response to a journalist's question about the 61-year-old bishop.
They also agreed to form a unified women's ice hockey team and the South said it will send its skiers to the Masikryong ski resort in the North for joint training with North Korean skiers ahead of the Games.
Kosovan Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic, who was standing trial over the killings of ethnic Albanians during the 1998-99 war, was shot dead outside his party office in the northern town of Mitrovica on Tuesday, a state prosecutor said.