BOSTON (AP) — The calendar says Christmas Eve but the temperatures in Massachusetts say no such thing.
With flowers still blooming around the region, records fell from Burlington, Vermont, to Providence, Rhode Island. The National Weather Service reported that Boston and Worcester both set record-high temperatures on Thursday with Boston climbing to 68 degrees at Logan International Airport just before 1 p.m., shattering the previous high for the date of 61 set in 1996.
BEIRUT (AP) — The three missiles fired on a public market in the northern Syrian town of Ariha took the morning shoppers by surprise. In a few moments, the main street, packed with people buying and selling fruit and vegetables, turned into a scene of carnage with burning cars and the wounded screaming in terror.
At least 34 civilians were killed in the Nov. 29 attack — one in a growing number of suspected Russian attacks that Syrian opposition and rights activists say have killed civilians and caused massive destruction to residential areas across the country since Moscow formally joined the conflict nearly three months ago.
