Month: April 2019

Senior’s weakness for scams may be warning sign of dementia

WASHINGTON  — Does an older friend or relative have a hard time hanging up on telemarketers? Or get excited about a “You’ve won a prize” voicemail? New research suggests seniors who aren’t on guard against scams also might be at risk for eventually developing Alzheimer’s disease. Elder fraud […]

Electric car makers woo Chinese buyers with range, features

SHANGHAI — Automakers are showcasing electric SUVs and sedans with more driving range and luxury features at the Shanghai auto show, trying to appeal to Chinese buyers in their biggest market as Beijing slashes subsidies that have propelled demand. Communist leaders wanting China to lead in electric vehicles […]

New Zealand, Red Cross at odds over naming captive nurse

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s government did not approve an aid agency’s decision to release the name of a New Zealand nurse held captive by the Islamic State group in Syria, the country’s foreign minister said Tuesday. Foreign Minister Winston Peters said an International Committee of the […]

World shares advance on back of rally in China shares

TOKYO— World shares advanced Tuesday, led by a rally in Chinese markets. Upbeat home price data from China and encouraging talk from the White House on trade negotiations with Beijing appeared to help lift sentiment. Germany’s DAX surged 0.6% to 12,096.93 while the CAC 40 in France gained […]

Fire out but much work ahead for destroyed Notre Dame

PARIS  — Firefighters declared success Tuesday morning in their more than 12-hour battle to extinguish the flames that engulfed Paris’ iconic Notre Dame cathedral. What remained was a blackened shell of the monument immortalized in Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” a building that had […]

Notre-Dame, soul of the French nation

Paris was struck in its very heart on Monday as flames devoured the roof of Notre-Dame, the medieval cathedral made famous by Victor Hugo, its two massive towers flanked with gargoyles instantly recognisable even by people who have never visited the city. Thousands of Parisians poured into the […]

Actress Loughlin pleads not guilty in college bribery scam

Actress Loughlin pleads not guilty in college bribery scam

American actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, accused of paying a $500,000 bribe to secure their daughters’ entry into a prestigious California university, on Monday pleaded not guilty to money laundering charges. The couple waived their right to appear before a judge to be formally accused and entered […]

Inside the dark world of Mexico’s intelligence services

Lee Harvey Oswald was here just before he shot John F. Kennedy. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were, too, not long before the Cuban Revolution. Mexico’s intelligence services gathered material on all of them, and millions more. Now, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is throwing open the spy […]

Kentucky hills ring with machine gun fire at Knob Creek Gun Shoot

Paul Winters has been coming to the Knob Creek Gun Shoot since 1992 to blast away at targets with machine gun rounds. “This is Disneyland with guns,” Winters said of the two-day event held twice a year in the hills of Kentucky near the hamlet of West Point. […]

Australia grandmother in emotional reunion with IS fighter’s orphans

An Australian grandmother to children of a notorious Islamic State group fighter has tracked down the orphans in a Syrian refugee camp in an emotional reunion she hopes will lead to their return home. The three surviving children of jihadist Khaled Sharrouf and his wife Tara Nettleton are […]

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