By Stuart Graham The Associated Press PLETTENBERG BAY, South Africa — They survived detention in Ethiopia, an emergency landing in Kenya and two searches for a British retiree who flew off radar in remote locations. On Friday, however, the 8,000-mile (12,800-kilometre) adventure came to an end as nearly a dozen […]
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By Lois Abraham THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Everyone who really enjoys wine seems to have an opinion about what distinguishes good from bad, whether it should be aged or decanted, and how much price matters in picking up a nice bottle. “There’s always the one family member who drinks […]
By Steve Karnowski The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Two longstanding mineral rights leases that are critical for a proposed large underground copper-nickel mine upstream from the pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota will not be renewed, two federal agencies announced Thursday, but the company said it will […]
By Karen Matthews The Associated Press NEW YORK — Ah, college. Halls of ivy. Stimulating class discussions. All-night cram sessions. … Sleeping in an old woman’s apartment? New York University is introducing a scheme next fall to help students save money by putting them up in elderly people’s spare bedrooms. […]
By Hannah Dreier The Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela became a country without cash Friday. As the country’s most widely used banknote went out of circulation, the higher-denomination bills that were supposed to replace the 100-bolivar note had not yet arrived at banks or ATMs. In the capital, people […]
The Associated Press LONDON—Britain’s fertility regulator has approved controversial techniques allowing doctors to create babies using the DNA from three people—what it called a “historic” decision to help prevent a small number of children from inheriting potentially-fatal diseases from their mothers. The regulator’s chair, Sally Chesire, today described it as […]
By Christopher Bodeen The Associated Press BEIJING — China appears to have installed anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapons on its man-made islands in the strategically vital South China Sea, a U.S. security think-tank says, upping the stakes in what many see as a potential Asian powder keg. The Center for Strategic […]
The Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Officials from the U.S. Coast Guard and the Royal Canadian Navy are in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to offload 26.5 tons of cocaine worth an estimated $715 million seized in the waters off the Eastern Pacific. Officials from the United States and Canada will […]
By Maria Cheng The Associated Press LONDON — Britain’s fertility regulator has approved controversial techniques allowing doctors to create babies using the DNA from three people ‚Äî what it called a “historic” decision to help prevent a small number of children from inheriting potentially fatal diseases from their mothers. The […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press Winter is upon us. I live in San Diego, and let’s be honest: The notion of us slogging through a frigid few months awaiting spring’s thaw is ridiculous. Yet, I’m cold. It’s chilly and cloudy and yes, sometimes, even rainy. We all spend more […]
By Michael Liedtke The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo has discovered a 3-year-old security breach that enabled a hacker to compromise more than 1 billion user accounts, breaking the company’s own humiliating record for the biggest security breach in history. The digital heist disclosed Wednesday occurred in August 2013, […]
By Josh Lederman THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — In an unexpected reversal, President Barack Obama declined to sign a renewal of sanctions against Iran but let it become law anyway, in an apparent bid to alleviate Tehran’s concerns that the U.S. is backsliding on the nuclear deal. Although the White […]
