A British company is offering a unique advent calendar featuring 24 rare varieties of whisky with a price tag of nearly $13,000. Drinks by the Dram announced its 2018 lineup of advent calendars, including the “Very Old and Rare” calendar featuring “24 of the most spectacular whiskies ever created.” […]
Efforts to avert mass starvation in war-ravaged Yemen will be doubled, the United Nations’ World Food program announced on Friday. About 8 million people in Yemen are in an “emergency situation,” a category recognized as a step below famine, the WFP said Friday. It added that an upcoming […]
The Indian Army received its first M777A2 155mm towed Ultra Lightweight Howitzers at an handover ceremony earlier this year. The howitzers will enter service with it’s first Indian regiment in 2019. They were accepted earlier this year as part of a 145-gun foreign military sale between the U.S. […]
Global population growth is a tale of two statistics: In 104 countries with high birth rates, populations are rising, while rates in 91 countries with low numbers are sinking. Since 1950, the total fertility rates, the average number of children a woman gives birth to during her lifetime, […]
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out. Here are the real facts: NOT REAL NEWS: FLASHBACK: Obama kicks […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Voters in conservative Utah have decided to join the growing number of states legalizing medical marijuana and expanding Medicaid to cover tens of thousands more low-income residents, two issues that had long stalled out with conservative state lawmakers. Utah will be on the list […]
Sri Lanka’s president dissolved Parliament and called for elections on Jan COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s president dissolved Parliament and called for elections on Jan. 5 in a bid to stave off a deepening political crisis over his dismissal of the prime minister that opponents say is […]
Facebook is dropping a requirement for mandatory arbitration of sexual misconduct allegations, acceding to a demand recently pressed by other Silicon Valley tech workers. Google made a similar change on Thursday, a week after thousands of employees briefly walked off their jobs to protest how the company handled sexual-misconduct allegations against […]
WASHINGTON— The Latest on U.S.-China talks involving top diplomats and defense chiefs (all times local): 1:50 p.m. China is telling the U.S. to stop sending American ships and military aircraft close to islands that Beijing claims in the South China Sea. Top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi (YAHNG jee-uh-CHERR) […]
PARADISE, Calif.— Not a single resident of Paradise can be seen anywhere in town after most of them fled the burning Northern California community that may be lost forever. Abandoned, charred vehicles cluttered the main thoroughfare, evidence of the panicked evacuation a day earlier. Most of its buildings […]
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