Liz Derr, head of Simularity Inc., a software company creating artificial intelligence technologies for satellite imagery analysis, said Monday that hundreds of Chinese fishing ships have anchored in the Spratlys region and dumped human waste, sewage, and wastewater. During a Philippine online news forum on China’s actions in the region Monday, Derr warned that the level of waste has accumulated to such significant portions that algae blooms are damaging coral reefs and threatening fish in catastrophic ways....

It was 612 home runs, actually, and Thome is one of eight players to reach the hallowed milestone. Albert Pujols will be the ninth, and it’s the Pujols Watch that has brought Thome’s name back into the baseball conscience. That seems odd to say given that he was active as recently as 2012, but here we are. It’s not quite Jim Thome, forgotten slugger. But it sure seems close. MORE: Jim Thome’s career, in photos...

Thursday afternoon 2:28 Barton enters the offices of Momentum Securities. Minutes later, he fires two handguns. 2:56 A distressed manager calls 911 from Two Securities Center, reporting two people shot on the third floor. 2:58 A second 911 call from the same building reports four people dead. 3:00 Dozens of police officers flood the scene. Witnesses see a man carrying two guns entering Piedmont Center, across the street. 3:07 Police officer hears gunshots coming from Piedmont Center....

Foreign policy, as taught by purists like Henry Kissinger, is supposed to be about pursuing the interests of the United States, generally defined as the safety and economic well-being of its people. But American interests do not really explain why the Clinton administration has committed forces to Somalia, Haiti or Bosnia, peripheral countries that pose no threat and offer little gain to most Americans. American intervention in those countries is not mindless–U....

From what I could see, here in Port-au-Prince, Cedras hadn’t connected with the reality of his disenchanted forces. Like Saddam Hussein, he seemed incapable of grasping that they had no fire in their bellies and wouldn’t fight to save his gang. Cedras had taken to giving Churchillian We-will-fight-them-on-the-beaches speeches on the radio that didn’t play well to the few soldiers left in the nearly empty barracks. Surely he couldn’t believe that the supernatural signs – the aircraft that kamikazied on the White House’s South Lawn, the U....

Diyala province is the latest battleground in the fight against Al Qaeda, and since the operation began last week, at least nine U.S. soldiers have been killed. The insurgents holed up here remain tenacious, unleashing suicide bombers and planting lethal explosives that can blow anything off the road. And they’ve upped the ante. A severed head turned up last week in a deserted market in Shakarat, a mere 500 yards from the U....

The Knicks have been a major disappointment this year, just 20-32 and currently out of the playoff picture, even in the woebegone East. That left Anthony shrouded by gloom coming into All-Star weekend. MORE: Images from All-Star Weekend | Durant gives himself nickname of “The Servant” “It was going to be hard for me to try and enjoy this weekend, but I did,” Anthony said. “I found a way. The guys that are part of the weekend did a great job of just getting me through it and keeping me positive, and just the whole vibe of the weekend was something that I was looking forward to, being around the guys the whole weekend, just kind of decompressing from my regular season....

It’s a vision that typically centers on white voters, but as the fall campaign ramps up, grass-roots groups on the ground are working to mobilize voters of color who could be the deciding factor in who wins each state, and the presidency. Both Michigan and Pennsylvania are one-quarter non-white, while people of color make up one-fifth of Wisconsin’s population. Those numbers are enormous, considering that Trump won Michigan by only 10,704 votes, Pennsylvania by just 46,765, and Wisconsin by a margin of 22,177 votes....

“Three Blind Mice” may be the most thorough probe ever into how the TV industry works. An indefatigable reporter, Auletta enjoyed unprecedented access to everyone from top brass to affiliate-station managers, His book is a sprawling tale of infighting and desperation, set during the mid- to late 1980s, when new corporate parents took charge of NBC, CBS and ABC. While the book lacks the focus of Auletta’s “Greed and Glory on Wall Street,” it is a smart portrait of once-coddled institutions retrenching in the face of competition from cable, VCRs and the Fox Broadcasting Co....

The Belgium international enjoyed a bright start to his time with the Red Devils following a £75 million summer transfer from Everton. Rom 4/1 to be PL top scorer The goals have dried up of late, however, and the 24-year-old has gone six games without finding the target. Lukaku’s barren spell has seen him questioned by some supporters, along with United’s displays as a whole, leading Mourinho to enter into a war of words....

An incentive spirometer can be used after surgery. It can also help you manage a lung condition such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia, or asthma. This article will go over what you should know about using an incentive spirometer, including a step-by-step guide and tips for keeping the device clean. How Incentive Spirometers Are Used An incentive spirometer teaches you how to take slow, deep breaths. It can help you build your lung capacity while recovering from surgery or help you reach breathing goals when you have a lung disease....

Regis’s $64,000 Quiz Mistake If “Jeopardy!” is the Harvard of game shows, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” hails from junior high. After all, this is a show where contestants can skip half the multiple-choice answers, survey the audience and even phone home for help. So it’s not surprising that “Millionaire” made a major boo-boo in its first week. When contestant David Honea got to the $64,000 question about which Great Lake (after Superior) is the largest in area, he correctly answered Huron....

Located nearly 682 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Cancer, the merger IC 2431 was first discovered by Stephane Javelle on February 24, 1896. And now, almost 126 years to the day since it was discovered, NASA revealed an image showing it in stunning detail. NASA said: “The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured what appears to be a triple galaxy merger in progress, as well as a tumultuous mixture of star formation and tidal distortions caused by the gravitational interactions of this galactic trio....

The event prompted a number of backyard photographers to get out their telescopes and capture a shot of the ringed world as it moved across the sky. A number of the photos can be seen below, clearly showing the distant planet and its trademark rings. Saturn was particularly bright on Monday because it appeared opposite the sun from Earth’s perspective—a phenomenon known as opposition. Gordon Johnston, a retired NASA executive who writes monthly articles on skywatching opportunities, referred to Saturn’s opposition as “effectively a ‘full Saturn’....

The other crew members were his brother Mark Bezos, 18-year-old student Oliver Daemen, and 82-year-old aviation pioneer Wally Funk, who finally made it into space 50 years after an all-woman space mission dubbed “Mercury 13” was scrapped. Even before the rocket launch, Bezos and fellow billionaire, space tourism rival Richard Branson, were criticized for using their vast wealth for space adventures and not aiding humanitarian or climate change issues....

Few Indians mourned the passing of the 11-month-old government of Prime Minister V. P. Singh, who lost a lopsided no-confidence vote in Parliament early in the week. Singh’s fate was sealed last month when a leading Hindu fundamentalist party abandoned his coalition :in protest over Singh’s decisions to arrest the party’s leader and to use troops to stop Hindu extremists from tearing down a disputed mosque. Some 370 Hindus and Muslims have been killed in the sectarian violence....

On a busy weekday afternoon in the city center of Jaipur, a sacred Brahma cow sprawled before the threshold of an Internet cafe. Charlie was prevented from entering until the spirit moved the cow to wander off, allowing the local IT revolution to proceed. In Jaisalmer Fort, Charlie was talking to a young Rajasthani woman who wore a gold ring in her nose. While a similar type of body piercing is newly popular in America, in India it has complemented feminine beauty for centuries....

FDI in India rose to $57 billion, with most money flowing to companies active in the digital economy, the UN said. India now receives the third most FDI worldwide, trailing China ($164 billion) and the U.S. ($134 billion). But FDI fell in other economies in the South Asia region, especially those dependent on exporting apparel, as demand fell during the COVID-19 pandemic. India offers foreign companies lower wages, tax incentives and, in some cases, tax exemptions....

The mission—operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)—consists of a lander, orbiter and rover. If everything goes to plan and the lander successfully touches down on the lunar surface, India will become just the fourth nation to complete a soft—or controlled—landing on the moon, after the U.S., former Soviet Union and China. In total, the latest mission will cost around $143 million, which is less than some Hollywood blockbusters as Indian outlet The News Minute reports....

On Sunday, the South Asian nation surpassed the record high of 77,255 daily infections set by the U.S. on July 16, with India reporting 78,761 new cases. Then on Monday, India reported 78,512 new infections, surpassing the U.S. record—which was also the previous global record for a single country—once again. In total, India has now reported more than 3.6 million confirmed infections and 64,469 deaths. The nation has the third highest number of confirmed cases of any country in the world, after the U....