| UN warns of war as deadly Israeli strikes pound Gaza Posted: 20 Jul 2018 01:18 PM PDT  Israeli forces unleashed a wave of strikes across the Gaza Strip Friday after saying troops came under fire, killing three Hamas members as a fresh escalation heightened fears of wider conflict. A fourth Palestinian was also shot dead during protests along the frontier with Israel, Gaza's health ministry said.
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| Tornadoes rip through Iowa Posted: 20 Jul 2018 09:19 AM PDT ![Tornadoes rip through Iowa]( "Tornadoes rip through Iowa") Thousands of people were without power Friday after a flurry of unexpected tornadoes swept through central Iowa, injuring at least 17 people and flattening buildings in three cities. The storms even surprised weather forecasters when they hit the region Thursday afternoon, causing extensive damage to a manufacturing plant and prompting the evacuation of a hospital. In Marshalltown, where 10 people were injured, brick walls collapsed into the streets, roofs were blown off buildings and the cupola of the historic courthouse tumbled to the ground.
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| ABC7 AccuWeather Forecast Posted: 20 Jul 2018 06:51 AM PDT  Watch the latest ABC7 AccuWeather forecast.
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| Home comforts greet 'Wild Boars' captain after Thai cave rescue Posted: 20 Jul 2018 05:27 AM PDT ![Home comforts greet 'Wild Boars' captain after Thai cave rescue]( "Home comforts greet 'Wild Boars' captain after Thai cave rescue") "My bed felt warm," the 13-year-old, also known as Dom, told Reuters. The 12 boys, aged 11 to 16, and the 25-year-old coach of the "Wild Boars" soccer team returned home on Wednesday after being discharged from hospital and appearing on national television to describe their ordeal inside the Tham Luang cave. Dom also blew out candles for a belated celebration of his 13th birthday on July 3, a day after the boys were found by two British divers about 4 km (2.5 miles) inside the cave.
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| Spiky Utah dinosaur had more than 'a face only a mother could love' Posted: 20 Jul 2018 01:27 AM PDT  With its head and snout covered in bony armor shaped like cones and pyramids, a spiky tank-like dinosaur unearthed in southern Utah was not just another pretty face. Scientists on Thursday announced the discovery of fossils of a dinosaur named Akainacephalus johnsoni that lived 76 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. It was a four-legged, armour-studded plant-eater with a menacing club at the end of its tail. It was a member of a dinosaur group called ankylosaurs, among the most heavily armored animals ever on Earth - and for good reason, considering the predators around at the time. The unique shape and arrangement of its head and snout armor may be its most intriguing trait, the researchers said, giving clues about the Asian ancestry of some of the ankylosaurs that roamed western North America near the end of the dinosaur era. Akainacephalus johnsoni Credit: Reuters "Someone once told me that Akainacephalus, and ankylosaurs in general, were quite ugly and had a face only a mother could love. I must say that I wholeheartedly disagree. These are quite extraordinary and beautiful animals," said paleontologist Jelle Wiersma of James Cook University in Australia. Akainacephalus was a medium-sized ankylosaur, about 16 feet (5 meters) long, with a short boxy head covered in bony armor and a beak and small teeth for cropping vegetation, said paleontologist Randall Irmis of the Natural History Museum of Utah and the University of Utah. It had a short neck and wide torso, walked on four short stout legs, and may have whacked predators with its bony tail club. It inhabited a warm, humid environment similar to southern Louisiana's bayous, with slow-moving streams and rivers and associated swamps. The largest predators were the 30-foot-long (9-meter-long) Tyrannosaurus rex cousin Teratophoneus and 42-foot-long (13-meter-long) crocodilian Deinosuchus. The extensive skeletal remains, including a complete skull, were excavated in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Akainacephalus, as well as a cousin called Nodocephalosaurus that lived in New Mexico a couple million years later, possessed spiky head armor similar to Asian members of this dinosaur group. Other related North American dinosaurs such as Ankylosaurus had relatively flat armor covering the head. This indicates Akainacephalus and Nodocephalosaurus were close kin to Asian ankylosaurs and that multiple emigration events involving this group occurred from Asia to North America late in the Cretaceous Period, the researchers said. This resulted in two distinct lineages in North America of club-tailed ankylosaurs. The research was published in the scientific journal PeerJ.
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| Tesla's Musk apologizes for comments on British caver Posted: 20 Jul 2018 12:06 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Tesla Inc founder Elon Musk apologized to British caver Vern Unsworth for insulting comments he made about him following the rescue of a dozen Thai schoolboys and their football coach from a cave in northern Thailand. "His actions against me do not justify my actions against him, and for that I apologize to Mr. Unsworth and to the companies I represent as leader," Musk said in a tweet. "The fault is mine and mine alone." Unsworth, who played a leading role in the rescue, said on Tuesday that he had been approached by British and American lawyers and would seek legal advice after Musk directed abuse at him on Twitter.
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| U.S. accuses North Korea of U.N. sanctions breach, demands end to fuel sales Posted: 19 Jul 2018 07:28 PM PDT ![U.S. accuses North Korea of U.N. sanctions breach, demands end to fuel sales]( "U.S. accuses North Korea of U.N. sanctions breach, demands end to fuel sales") (In this July 12 story corrects paragraphs 4 and 10 to say that the U.S. listed 89 illicit transactions, not 89 North Korean tankers) By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States accused North Korea on Thursday of breaching a U.N. sanctions cap on refined petroleum by making illicit transfers between ships at sea, according to a document seen by Reuters, and demanded an immediate end to all sales of the fuel. The United States submitted the complaint to the U.N. Security Council North Korea sanctions committee.
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| Brazilian police arrest 'Dr. Bumbum' after patient dies Posted: 19 Jul 2018 06:21 PM PDT  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police arrested celebrity plastic surgeon Denis Cesar Barros Furtado on Thursday, five days after he went on the run following the death of a patient he gave injections to enlarge her buttocks.
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| Egyptian Officials Open Black Sarcophagus, Find 3 Skeletons Inside Posted: 19 Jul 2018 04:00 PM PDT  After approximately 2,000 years sitting untouched, a black sarcophagus
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