## [2015-01-27](/feed/2015/01/27/index.md)

##### U.S.
### [American 1964 Nobel Prize-winning physicist Charles Hard Townes, who helped invent the now-ubiquitous laser, dies at the age of 99. ](/feed/2015/01/27/american-1964-nobel-prize-winning-physicist-charles-hard-townes-who-helped-invent-the-now-ubiquitous-laser-dies-at-the.md)
##### January 2015 nor'easter
### [New England sees the worst of the blizzard with Boston, Massachusetts covered in two feet of snow. ](/feed/2015/01/27/new-england-sees-the-worst-of-the-blizzard-with-boston-massachusetts-covered-in-two-feet-of-snow.md)
##### January 26 crash
### [The death toll from the January 26 crash of a Hellenic Air Force F-16 fighter jet in southern Spain rises to eleven. ](/feed/2015/01/27/the-death-toll-from-the-january-26-crash-of-a-hellenic-air-force-f-16-fighter-jet-in-southern-spain-rises-to-eleven.md)
##### Pope Francis
### [Pope Francis holds a private meeting with a transsexual man and his fiancée at the Vatican. ](/feed/2015/01/27/pope-francis-holds-a-private-meeting-with-a-transsexual-man-and-his-fiancee-at-the-vatican.md)
##### Israeli–Lebanese conflict
### [Israeli security forces claim that Hezbollah and forces loyal to the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad are responsible for firing rockets from Syrian territory onto the Golan Heights into the mount Hermon sky resort. ](/feed/2015/01/27/israeli-security-forces-claim-that-hezbollah-and-forces-loyal-to-the-president-of-syria-bashar-al-assad-are-responsible.md)
##### Ongoing civil war
### [Five gunmen at the Libyan Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli attack with at least ten dead. The hotel was previously the location in 2013 where a former prime minister was abducted. ](/feed/2015/01/27/five-gunmen-at-the-libyan-corinthia-hotel-in-tripoli-attack-with-at-least-ten-dead-the-hotel-was-previously-the-locatio.md)
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