A global police crackdown has seized over 10000 tons of illicit or dangerous food and drink including monkey meat, dead insects and fake sugar spiked with fertiliser, Europol, the European police agency, said yesterday.
Sylvester the lion may have been given a reprieve on his death sentence, but his future remains uncertain.
It might sound like the stuff of nightmares but giant cyborg beetles could soon be winging their way to a town near you, now that scientists have proved they can wire up insects and control them remotely.
The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, has been accused of trying to rewrite colonial history after telling its students the British arrival should be referred to as an "invasion" and not a settlement.
It is a report card on this nation's human-rights record and, although academics said there were no surprises, it did highlight troubling issues facing the country.
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The Patriots are taking a look at a veteran receiver. Ben Volin of the Boston Globe reports that the Patriots worked out former Buccaneers and Bills receiver Mike Williams today. The 28-year-old Williams played his college football at Syracuse and was a fourth-round draft pick of the Bucs in 2010. He played last year for…
A rousing applause reverberated across the University of South Africa's ZK Mathews hall as Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema walked in for his graduation last night.
Trump's campaign manager was charged Tuesday with simple battery.
Central African Republic's new president, Faustin-Archange Touadera, yesterday pledged to "preserve peace" as he was sworn in, following polls aimed at restoring stability in the wake of three years of turmoil.
FUKUOKA - People view cherry blossoms at a park in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on March 30, 2016, w...
Long-term vegetarianism can lead to genetic mutations, raising the risk of heart disease and cancer, scientists have found.
(AP) — Authorities have arrested the principal of a small Christian school in Sequim on charges of child rape and molestation involving students. Allison was booked on multiple counts of first-degree child rape and first-degree child molestation.
The blame for California’s below-average snowpack was placed Wednesday at the feet of a largely impotent El Niño, which failed to deliver the powerful storms forecasters expected. Frank Gehrke, the chief of cooperative snow surveys for the department, said the famous weather pattern known by its Spanish moniker didn’t perform as expected. What happened is that the winter storm track was farther north than expected and dropped much more rain and snow in the northern part of the state than in the south. Читать дальше...
Diplomats say Erdogan’s increasingly aggressive and undemocratic behavior in Turkey, plus what they describe as his mercurial role in the conflict in neighboring Syria, have diminished his standing in the Obama administration.
Here’s a little push to get you back on track.
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Macaulay Culkin keeps a low profile while shopping for handbags out and about in the East Village area of New York City. The 35-year-old Home Alone star sported a long ‘do and was seen pointing out a couple leather bags to the people that worked there. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Macaulay Culkin [...]
The Justice Department and the city of Newark have reached a settlement after a yearslong investigation into the Newark Police Department’s practices, according to an announcement Wednesday. Investigators found that NPD officers were violating citizens’ rights under the First, Fourth and 14th amendments to the Constitution by engaging in illegal stops, searches, arrests, use of […]
The lawyers of alleged University of Virginia rape victim “Jackie” have asked a court to cancel a scheduled deposition in a lawsuit being brought against Rolling Stone for its discredited article about a gang rape at a fraternity on campus. Jackie’s lawyers claim she would be re-victimized if forced to recount the incident under oath […]
Doctors discover another piece of the Zika puzzle, but it has left experts with more questions about this little understood disease. A study running in the latest online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine focuses on the case of a 33-year-old woman who went on vacation in November. She visited countries that are […]
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Taylor Els is an all-state libero in volleyball and one of the state’s best 800-meter girls runners in track.
The line outside the Apollo Theatre on Wednesday morning snaked along 125th Street and up Frederick Douglass Boulevard, before curling onto 126th. “The next President is going to be here: we love her!” Fanta Kouyate, a child-services worker who had come across the Harlem River from the Bronx, volunteered. “I wouldn’t miss it for the world,” Harriet Natkin, an Upper West Side resident who had come with a couple of friends, said. “I’m a very big Hillary supporter.”
ECHO SUMMIT, California (AP) — A nearly average spring snowpack in the Sierra Nevada will likely prolong tough water conservation measures in drought-stricken California — although the restrictions could be loosened in some areas after an El Nino storm system drenched the northern half of the state this winter, officials said Wednesday. A year ago, Gov. Jerry Brown stood on the same spot — then a dusty patch of ground with no snow — to announce that the dire drought required residents to cut back water use by 25 percent. Читать дальше...
