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Eight years after falling short against Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton will break through a new glass ceiling this week.Clinton, who famously ended her 2008 campaign by celebrating the “18 million cracks” in “that highest, hardest glass ceiling,” is set to formally become her party’s nominee for President at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this week. The convention kicked off Monday and will run through Thursday. After what Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook called the “doom and gloom” of Donald Trump’s Republican convention, Democrats are promising a different tone.Watch the convention proceedings live above. Highlights include Clinton’s primary opponent Bernie Sanders and First Lady Michelle Obama on Monday; former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday; President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday; and Hillary Clinton herself on Thursday.

Average adult heights in many countries appear to have peaked 30 to 40 years ago and have declined slightly since then, according to a new study that the authors say is based on the largest set of such data ever gathered.They combined results from 1,472 studies in 200 countries looking at the measured — rather than self-reported or estimated — heights of about 18.6 million people born from 1896 to 1996. The study was published in eLife.Dutchmen born before 2000 were the world’s tallest, and Guatemalan women born before 1900 were the shortest, the study found. South Korean women and Iranian men had the greatest gains in height over the last century. But Guatemalan women also grew, rising from 4 feet 7 inches to 4 feet 11 inches, on average.This phenomenon is even more prominent in Africa.War is the main reason.

The cancellation was made in the interest of player safety and comes following extreme weather events in Beijing over a multiple day period, that have left the playing surface in a condition deemed to be unfit for play. The conditions experienced in Beijing on July 19 and July 20 were reported as being some of the most extreme weather conditions the capital of China has experienced in recent history. Regular rain occurred also on July 21 and July 22.The decision was made collectively by tournament organisers, participating clubs, the China Football Association, the Beijing Football Association and the management of the National Stadium.Due to international travel schedules and planned sporting commitments, the match cancellation is definitive and the match will not be re-scheduled.The International Champions Cup and its participating clubs thanked and apologised to fans in China and around the world who were planning to attend the match or watch the match broadcast.

A suicide bombing killed 48 people, among them women and children, Wednesday in northern Syria, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.A truck bomb exploded near buildings belonging to a Kurdish security agency and other governmental departments in the city of Qamishli near the border with Turkey, CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reported. The observatory said 140 people were hurt.

Police declared an all-clear at Washington's Union Station and allowed people to re-enter the train terminal after a bomb threat on Wednesday forced a brief evacuation."We didn't find nothing. We wouldn't let you back in if it wasn't all clear," said a police officer, who did not give his name.An Amtrak employee described the incident as a "false alarm" and said there would be a slight delay for trains.The entire incident lasted less than an hour.Scores of panicked people ran out of the U.S. capital's main railway station while police investigated a possible suspicious package after an earlier report of a bomb threat, police said.A Reuters witness said people began running out of the station, a hub for railway, commuter train and subway service in the city, shortly after 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT).During the alert, at least 20 police cars, a fire truck, an ambulance and vehicles from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Protective Service converged on the station.

Southern California City of San Diego's local time occurred the night of 28th shooting incident, two police officers was shot by a suspect who was arrested.Shootings in San Diego South Crest area is about 3 km from the San Diego naval base. After the incident, San Diego police said official Twitter posting, two police officers that was shot have been sent to hospital for medical treatment,situation is presently unknown.

An air strike has hit a maternity hospital supported by Save the Children in north-western Syria, killing two people and wounding others.The charity said several babies were hurt when incubators crashed to the floor, a pregnant woman lost a leg and two others suffered shrapnel wounds.Images show part of the building in Kafer Takhareem destroyed. It is not clear who carried out the attack.The air strike hit the entrance to the hospital in rural Idlib province.Syria Relief, the aid agency that manages the hospital, said those killed were relatives of patients.Save the Children said the hospital was the biggest in the area, carrying out more than 300 deliveries a month.At the time of the bombing, two operations were under way and a woman was in labour, a statement said.

Rapid Deployment Barrier-Maintain National Security with Military Quality People.cnCO Beijing on July 11, July 12, by the Philippines Aquino government unilaterally filed so-called Nanhai arbitration results will be released. The arbitration and the distortion of < United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea> purpose, challenges as the rules of the area of < Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea> that China adheres to not accept, do not participate in, does not recognize. Broad international support for the South China Sea issue position, according to the statistics, as of July 11, about 70 countries have clear statement to support China. Some countries have distorted the facts, an attempt by diplomatic pressure and public opinion speculation forced China to accept the ruling conspiracy will not succeed.

Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of a mentally ill black man whose death after he was arrested by police in Canada's capital city sparked a debate about race in a country that prides itself on a reputation for being tolerant.At least 600 people including Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson and other local politicians turned out on Friday for the Muslim funeral of Abdirahman Abdi, filling Ottawa's largest mosque and spilling onto the street.Watson was criticized earlier in the week for not making a statement until two days after the arrest on Sunday.Witnesses told local media that Abdi, 37, was beaten by police officers who responded to calls of a disturbance. A video taken by a bystander showed Abdi in a bloodied shirt lying face down on the ground with his hands cuffed behind him and his pants pulled down before paramedics arrived.

According to the France Radio International on July 26, Sweden July 26 local time about 16 o'clock in the afternoon, the city of Malmo, a shopping mall shooting broke out again. A gunman toting after escaping, the injured man has been rushed to hospital for treatment, and current condition is unknown.