Car Plows Through Copacabana Sidewalk, Kills Baby, Injures 15 A speeding car plowed through evening strollers on a crowded sidewalk of Rio’s famed Copacabana beach on Thursday in an apparent accident, killing an 8-month old baby and injuring 15 people, police said. Injured pedestrians lay sprawled out on the sidewalk, […]
Trump Admin Will Protect Health Workers Who Refuse Services On Religious Grounds Health care workers who want to refuse to treat patients because of religious or moral beliefs will have a new defender in the Trump administration. The top civil rights official at the Department of Health and Human Services […]
Superjumbo jet future secured by Emirates order The $16bn (£11.5bn) deal amounts to a reprieve for the A380 after Airbus threatened to stop making the jet if it could not come to a deal with Emirates. Emirates is the only airline to have put the A380 at the heart of […]
San Jose mom, 40, dies days after coming down with flu, reports say A 40-year-old mother in San Jose died two days after catching the flu, The San Francisco Chronicle reported, citing local media. Katie Denise Oxley Thomas, who was considered healthy and liked to run marathons, died on Jan. […]
Zambia says new cases dropping in deadly cholera outbreak Zambia says it has made progress in containing a cholera outbreak that has killed about 70 people in the southern African nation since October. Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya this week said there had been a “drastic reduction” in the number of […]
Oil spill off China coast now the size of Paris An oil spill from an Iranian oil tanker that sank in the East China Sea is now the size of Paris. The slick covers an area of 101 square kilometers (39 square miles), after almost doubling in size from the […]
India tests-fires Agni-V, a nuclear-capable ICBM India has successfully test-fired a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the country’s Defense Ministry said Thursday. The nuclear-capable Agni-V is believe to be India’s most advanced ICBM. It was fired Thursday morning India time from Abdul Kalam island off the coast of the eastern […]
Apple Is About to Introduce an iPhone Feature It Doesn’t Want You to Use Apple will allow iPhone users to switch off the performance reductions that the company has introduced in the last year to counteract the effects of ageing batteries, Tim Cook has said. However, the Apple CEO advised […]
Apple is giving $2,500 stock awards to some employees Apple continued a blitz of investment announcements on Wednesday with a stock-based compensation award for some employees. The iPhone maker will grant $2,500 in restricted stock units over the coming months. Restricted stock units are valued in company stock, but vest […]
With Sundance 2018, a festival reaches to meet the moment Yes, there are still movies at the Sundance Film Festival. But the 2018 edition of the preeminent indie film showcase, which kicks off Thursday night in Park City, Utah, also will be dealing with a moment of tumultuous upheaval and […]
