An Australian snake catcher shared video from the rescue of a sneaky python that was found wrapped around the engine under the hood of a car. Tony Morrison, 40, a professional snake catcher in Brisbane, Queensland, said he was called out to remove a nearly 5-foot python Tuesday […]
Crude oil futures continued to show weakness Thursday morning as reports of higher production by the world’s biggest producers reduced the potential impact of U.S.-nuclear related sanctions against Iran, an analyst said. WTI front-month crude oil prices were down 0.2 percent as of 9:42 a.m. EST to $65.20 […]
The chemical dispersants used to clean up oil after the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 were ineffective and unneeded, a new study says. Researchers report in a study {link:published this week:”https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2018.00389/full” target=”_blank”} that dispersants used in the largest oil spill in U.S. history — 210 […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India— India humbled the West Indies by nine wickets in the final one-day international and took the five-match series 3-1 on Thursday. After bowling out the West Indies for 104, India made 105-1 in 15 overs to record its second biggest win in terms of balls to […]
NEW YORK— For literary magazines over the past year, much of the news has been in the masthead. Editor Lorin Stein of the Paris Review left amid allegations of sexual harassment and editor Ian Buruma of The New York Review of Books was fired after publishing an essay by Jian Ghomeshi, the […]
A black box from the crashed Lion Air jet has been recovered, authorities said Thursday, a find that could be critical to establishing why a brand new jet plunged into the Java Sea shortly after take-off, killing 189 people on board. Divers plucked the orange data recorder from […]
Sri Lanka’s President lifted a suspension of parliament Thursday and called a meeting of lawmakers next week that could end an increasingly bitter power struggle between two rival prime ministers, officials said. The climbdown by Maithripala Sirisena, who sparked the crisis by sacking Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister […]
The judge who has upended Brazilian politics with a sweeping corruption investigation, Sergio Moro, accepted an offer Thursday from far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro to be his justice minister. Bolsonaro publicly offered him the post after being swept to the presidency Sunday on a wave of anti-establishment anger fueled […]
NEW DELHI : India’s prime minister on Wednesday unveiled a towering bronze statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a key independence leader being promoted as a national icon in the ruling party’s campaign ahead of next year’s general elections. Patel, who hailed from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s native Gujarat […]
Japan’s anti-trust authorities will probe whether tech giants such as Google and Amazon are using their market-leader positions to exploit contractors or obstruct competition, the country’s fair trade chief said Thursday. In an interview with the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, the head of Japan’s Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) said […]
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