Tourism is the backbone of Nepal’s economy but has been struggling with the long-standing political instability and with natural disasters in each of the previous two years, including the 2015 earthquake whose anniversary is on April 25. Nagarkot, Nepal (dpa) – Subba Tamang, his wife and two children have spent ... Read More »
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Monday she would fight on in the face of a vote by lawmakers to impeach her that has plunged her government into its deepest crisis yet. Speaking publicly for the first time since 367 members of the country’s lower Chamber of Deputies voted to impeach ... Read More »
Jami Patel spends long hours behind the front desk of a nearly empty motel, desperate for someone, anyone, to check in. Hardly anyone ever does, not since the once-booming natural gas industry pulled up stakes amid a prolonged, severe slump in energy prices. “I don’t know how much longer I ... Read More »
Despite earlier confirmation coming from BlackBerry CEO John Chen during CES 2016 that the BlackBerry Priv would be arriving on Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint, it now appears as though Sprint may have decided against releasing the first-Android powered BlackBerry to their customers. Until recently, Sprint’s customer care via Twitter was ... Read More »
A man who teaches classes on the outdoors has been hospitalized after he was mauled by a bear during a mountaineering class in the Alaska Panhandle. Forest Wagner, 35, of Fairbanks, was with a group of 12 students Monday on Mount Emmerich near Haines, Alaska, when he was attacked, according ... 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 »
Takeaway The recurrence rate is very low after breast-conserving therapy in 8485 patients treated over a 28-year period. Study design This was a retrospective study of clinical characteristics, treatment, and outcome of three groups of patients (n=8485): 1980-1987, 1988-1998, and 1999-2008. The primary outcome measure was ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence ... Read More »
It seems nothing is going BlackBerry’s way. Soon after WhatsApp pulled support for BlackBerry 10 OS and all other BlackBerry operating systems, Facebook has announced that it is discontinuing support of their essential APIs for BlackBerry. The social giant has confirmed that as of March 31, BlackBerry users will have ... Read More »
