By Mari Yamaguchi The Associated Press TOKYO — Warning sirens blared in northern Japan on Friday when North Korea launched a missile and again when it passed over the Japanese island of Hokkaido as residents were just starting their day. Community loudspeakers instructed people to get inside any building and […]
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The Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal — The U.N. refugee agency says Central African Republic is seeing the highest number of people fleeing deadly violence since the beginning of the country’s conflict four years ago. The agency told reporters in Geneva on Friday that more than half a million people have […]
By Jill Lawless The Associated Press LONDON — A homemade bomb exploded on a packed London subway train during rush hour on Friday, leaving 22 people injured, police and health officials said. None of the injured is thought to be seriously hurt. Police say the explosion was a terrorist attack, […]
By Elizabeth Karmel The Associated Press I almost always have pimento cheese in my refrigerator. It is one of my comfort foods and I never get tired of it. Like most Southerners, I grew up with it and there are as many variations as there are Southerners. The version that […]
The Associated PressMalcolm Ritter NEW YORK–Five prominent species of ash tree in the eastern U.S. have been driven to the brink of extinction from years of lethal attack by a beetle, a scientific group says. Tens of millions of trees in the U.S. and Canada already have succumbed, and the […]
The Associated Press COPENHAGEN–A Norwegian archaeologist says a well-preserved–if rusty–iron sword dating to the Viking era has been found in southern Norway. Lars Holger Piloe said the nearly one-metre-long sword was found slid down between rocks with the blade sticking out. It may have been left by a person who […]
The Associated PressTom Withers CLEVELAND–Just a little more than a month ago, Jay Bruce was in New York sinking with the Mets as a season that began with promise and a richness of pitching was undermined by injuries. The plunge was dramatic. So was the rise. A trade rescued Bruce […]
The Associated Press LONDON — A new plastic ten-pound note featuring Jane Austen, one of Britain’s most renowned authors, has gone into circulation. The new ‘tenner’ is the first British banknote with a tactile feature involving a series of raised dots in the top left-hand corner to help blind and […]
The Associated Press COPENHAGEN — A Norwegian archaeologist says a well-preserved, if rusty, iron sword dating to the Viking era has been found in southern Norway. Lars Holger Piloe says the nearly one-meter-long (3-foot) sword was found slid down between rocks with the blade sticking out, and may have been […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press Taxi cab confession: Before now, I had never made a tarte tatin. It sounded just plain scary ‚Äî flipping a pan over so that the fruit ends up on top and the crust ends up on the bottom. Such drama! Why would anyone put […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press The arrival of apple season is a worthy consolation prize for the departure of summer. Leaves will soon be turning red and golden brown, but for now, I’m celebrating the original fall flavour (before pumpkin spice syrupy things took over the world): apples slow-baked […]
The Associated Press ATLANTA–Thanks to reconnaissance by a neighbour who stayed behind, Pam Szymanksi knows Hurricane Irma blew out the living room window of her southwest Florida home. But she isn’t sure when she’ll get to see the damage for herself. “All I know is we have to check out […]
