[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A Chinese court handed down a four-year jail term to a citizen-journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the peak of this year’s coronavirus outbreak.

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The EU and Britain recently announced that after lengthy negotiation, they have finally struck a trade deal with one another. The deal, which preserves Britain’s zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the EU’s single market of 450 million consumers, was reached on Dec 24.

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A motor home, parked on a downtown street of Nashville Tennessee, exploded at dawn on Christmas moments after police responding to reports of gunfire noticed it. Authorities say the 63-year-old suspect in the bombing was killed in the blast that destroyed his motor home.

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The Trump administration published a list of Chinese and Russian companies with alleged military ties that restrict them from buying a wide range of U.S. goods and technology. China urged the United States to stop what it called erroneous actions and treat all companies in an equal way.

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A new species of Orchid has been dubbed “the ugliest orchid in the world” by the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London. Gastrodia agnicellus, is one of 156 plants and fungi named by Kew scientists and their partners around the world in 2020.

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere were treated an early Christmas gift with a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event. The solar system’s two biggest planets appeared to have crossed paths in what astronomers call the “Great Conjunction.”

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] President Donald Trump signed legislation that would kick Chinese companies off U.S. stock exchanges unless they adhere to American auditing standards.

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A scientific expedition high in the Bolivian Andes discovered new 20 species including the so called “lilliputian frog” plus four rediscovered species including the “devil-eyed frog” previously thought to be extinct.

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted followed by an earthquake that struck at the volcano’s south flank. Residents were urged to stay indoors as steam clouded the sky and ash fell.