Rescuers are in a race against time to find survivors from a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake as the death toll from Ecuador’s strongest earthquake in decades has risen above 400. On Monday, teams from Ecuador and neighboring countries fanned out across the country’s Pacific coastline to look for the dozens of ... Read More »
The 2016 Boston Marathon was a coronation for Ethiopia, which collected its first-ever sweep of the men’s and women’s titles. That doesn’t mean the winners of the world’s most prestigious marathon will get a spot on the Ethiopian Olympic team. Lemi Berhanu Hayle won the 120th edition of the Boston ... Read More »
Was the filmed apology over an international dog smuggling scandal supposed to look like a hostage video? Was the weirdly wooden delivery a deliberate protest by the unhappy actors? And does the Australian politician at the heart of the world’s most bizarre biosecurity case think he could have directed it ... Read More »
Searchers digging in a mountainous area of southern Japan where twin earthquakes triggered landslides found another body Tuesday, raising the likely death toll to 45. Some 100,000 evacuees, some sleeping outdoors or in their cars, endured chilly weather and another large aftershock overnight that hit the southern island of Kyushu, ... Read More »
The vast majority of immigrant children who arrive alone at the U.S. border are placed by the government with adults who are in the country illegally, federal data reviewed by The Associated Press show. The government has long said that it places the children with family and friends regardless of ... Read More »
The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for documenting the use of slave labor in Southeast Asia to supply seafood to American tables – an investigation that spurred the release of more than 2,000 captive workers. The Los Angeles Times was awarded the breaking news prize ... Read More »
Expressing outrage over the congressional vote to open impeachment proceedings against her, President Dilma Rousseff says she will not resign and vows to keep fighting the forces arrayed against her. The defiant comments came at a Monday news conference at the presidential palace, which was Rousseff’s first public appearance since ... Read More »
As Stephen Curry emphatically waved his arms to ignite the crowd and coached from the bench when he could do little else, Klay Thompson and the Golden State Warriors’ supporting cast proved they can win on the playoff stage without their NBA MVP. They would rather have him, of course, ... Read More »
Rescuers are in a race against time to find survivors from a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake as the death toll from Ecuador’s strongest earthquake in decades has risen above 400. On Monday, teams from Ecuador and neighboring countries fanned out across the country’s Pacific coastline to look for the dozens of ... Read More »
MUMBAI: The state government will move a proposal before the next cabinet to amend the BMC Act making it mandatory for the corporation to create, maintain and beautify open spaces. Currently this is an obligatory duty. On Friday, BJP MLA from Bandra moved a private member’s Bill seeking an amendment ... Read More »
