Month: November 2018

Viva Forever! Spice Girls reveal 2019 UK reunion tour

Say You’ll Be There: Best-selling 90s girl band the Spice Girls promise to give fans what they really, really want on a UK reunion tour next year. The band — minus pop star-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham — released details of a comeback tour, which will see them play […]

Wind farm ‘predator’ effect hits ecosystems: study

Wind farms act as a top “predator” in some ecosystems, harming birds at the top of the food chain and triggering a knock-on effect overlooked by green energy advocates, scientists said Monday. Wind is the fastest-growing renewable energy sector, supplying around four percent of global electricity demand. Close […]

Justice lawyers fail to halt Trump financial records release

WASHINGTON— A federal judge denied the Justice Department’s efforts to halt legal proceedings in a case accusing President Donald Trump of violating the U.S. Constitution — opening the door for Trump’s critics to soon gain access to financial records related to his Washington, D.C., hotel. Trump has been […]

Bruce Springsteen, Seth Meyers headline veterans fundraiser

NEW YORK— Bruce Springsteen teamed up with country star Eric Church on a version of “Working on the Highway” and Jon Stewart laced into Donald Trump at a bawdy event Monday in New York that gathered comedians and musicians to help raise money for military veterans. Springsteen, a […]

Britain’s Idris Elba named People mag’s ‘sexiest man alive’

LOS ANGELES- Actor Idris Elba, who James Bond fans are campaigning to be the next person to play 007, was named the sexiest man alive on Monday by People magazine. The London-born actor, 46, said he didn’t believe it when the magazine told him. “I was like, ‘Come […]

The man who would be king, eventually: Prince Charles turns 70

LONDON- When Prince Charles, who turns 70 next week, becomes king on the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth, he will have waited longer than any of his predecessors to head a royal family that dates back 1,000 years. Some monarchists fear, and republicans hope, he will be […]

In China, female pilots strain to hold up half the sky

SHANGHAI – When Han Siyuan first decided to apply for a job as a pilot cadet in 2008, she was up against 400 female classmates in China on tests measuring everything from their command of English to the length of their legs. Eventually, she became the only woman […]

Ford goes local in India, aims for bigger slice of competitive market

Ford Motor Co made a profit in India for the first time in a decade in the last fiscal year, signalling that a strategy conceived two years ago by the U.S. car manufacturer for one of the world’s most competitive car markets is starting to show some success. […]

Relatives struggle with Wisconsin deaths of Girl Scout, mom

MILWAUKEE— Relatives of a Girl Scout and her mother who were killed in a hit-and-run crash in Wisconsin that also claimed the lives of two other girls struggled Monday to come to terms with their sudden, heartbreaking loss, saying “we all expect them to come back.” Sara Jo […]

Separatists kidnap 79 pupils in Cameroon’s restive northwest

YAOUNDE, Cameroon— Armed separatists kidnapped at least 79 students and three staff members from a Presbyterian school in a troubled English-speaking region of Cameroon, the governor said Monday. North West Region Gov. Deben Tchoffo said the students abducted Sunday night were ages 11-17, and they were taken from […]

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