By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press I love dessert. I also love being healthy. My four kiddos also love sweets. So over the years, I’ve created some great strategies for getting some dessert in our lives while also honouring our bodies, which frankly do not need as much sugar as […]
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The Associated Press LONDON — Britain and Argentina announced Wednesday they have agreed to lift restrictions affecting the Falkland Islands, in a thawing of relations between the former wartime enemies. The two countries released a statement after meetings in Buenos Aires between U.K. Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan and senior […]
The Associated Press LONDON — Britain and Argentina announced Wednesday they have agreed to lift restrictions affecting the Falkland Islands, in a thawing of relations between the former wartime enemies. The two countries released a statement after meetings in Buenos Aires between U.K. Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan and senior […]
By Terence Chea The Associated Press MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Did robots help make your pizza? If you ordered it from Silicon Valley’s Zume Pizza, the answer is yes. The startup, which began delivery in April, is using intelligent machines to grab a slice of the multibillion-dollar pizza delivery market. […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press There are certain baked goods that elicit a fierce loyalty among fans. They bring out strong feelings about how they should be prepared (often the same way they were prepared in said fans’ childhoods). And someone else’s failure to appreciate them can be met […]
By Michael Casey The Associated Press Leave it to the great minds at MIT and Georgia Tech to figure out a way to read the pages of a book without actually opening it. A team of researchers from the two institutions pulled it off with a system they developed that […]
The Associated Press BROOKLINE, N.H. — After waiting 11 years to marry her groom, a flat tire wasn’t going to stop a determined New Hampshire bride from walking down the aisle on her special day. With her limo rendered inoperable along an infrequently travelled road in Brookline, Angelique Arsenault stuck […]
By Abdi Guled The Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia on Tuesday was hosting its first regional summit of African heads of state in 30 years, a source of pride in this Horn of Africa country after years of chaos and deadly attacks by al-Shabab extremists. Security measures were high […]
By Christin Roby The Associated Press ABIDJAN, Cote d’Ivoire — The smell of chocolate wafts from the door of an artisanal shop that would not be out of place in Brooklyn. Founder Dana Mroueh takes in the sun while riding her stationary bicycle-turned-cocoa grinder on an ambitious journey that began […]
The Associated Press DETROIT — The Chevrolet Bolt, General Motors’ Tesla-fighting electric hatchback for the masses, will be able to go 238 miles (383 kilometres) on a single charge. The car beats the base rear-wheel-drive Tesla Model S, which can go 210 miles (336 kilometres) per charge but costs about […]
By Aleksandra Sagan The Canadian Press TORONTO — Once a week Peter Sanagan brings a whole wild boar carcass to his Toronto butcher shop. He divvies it up into chops and other cuts, selling it to adventurous eaters who wander into the Kensington Market store. While more familiar meats like […]
`By Jay Reeves The Associated Press HOLLYWOOD, Ala. — After spending more than 40 years and $5 billion on an unfinished nuclear power plant in northeastern Alabama, the nation’s largest federal utility is preparing to sell the property at a fraction of its cost. The Tennessee Valley Authority has set […]
