Shortly after 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 UTC) on February 15, a gunman entered the intensive care unit (ICU) at UPMC Memorial Hospital in York, Pennsylvania, taking hospital staff hostage at gunpoint. Before being shot dead, he fatally wounded backup officer Andrew Duarte, 30, of the West York Borough Police Department, and injured multiple others, including police officers, a nurse, a doctor, and a custodian.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have further lowered the predicted likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth, citing refined trajectory calculations based on new observational data. Initially discovered in December 2024, the asteroid was estimated to have a 2.3% chance of collision on December 22, 2032.
Freezing temperatures swept across eastern portions of the US state of Texas last week. As of 10:55 PM CST (1455 UTC) on Wednesday, temperatures in the city of Houston stood at 31°F.
On Sunday, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) hosted the 78th British Academy Film Awards ceremony in London, England's Royal Festival Hall.
On February 6, while President Mohamed Muizzu of the Maldives was delivering his presidential address in the People's Majlis, the unicameral legislative body located in Malé, opposition members from the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) rose their voices in protest. The Speaker of the People's Majlis Abdul Raheem Abdulla gave multiple warnings, but opposition parliament members refused to heed them.
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