The Associated Press SEVILLE, Spain — An experimental solar-powered airplane landed in Spain Thursday, completing an unprecedented three-day flight across the Atlantic in the latest leg of its globe-circling voyage. The Solar Impulse 2 landed in Seville in southern Spain at 0540 GMT on Thursday, ending a 71-hour, 8-minute flight […]
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By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Flying through dangerous cold and pitch-dark, a small plane is making a 1,500-mile trip to evacuate a sick worker from a remote U.S. science station on the South Pole. A Canadian Twin Otter plane left a British base in Antarctica Tuesday morning […]
By Jeff Martin The Associated Press ATLANTA — A mystery is brewing in Atlanta, where someone stole an ocean of beer. A brewery in the city says nearly 3,300 cases of beer went missing when two of its refrigerated trailers were stolen. SweetWater Brewing Co. said the trailers had been […]
By Jeff Martin The Associated Press ATLANTA — A mystery is brewing in Atlanta, where someone stole an ocean of beer. A brewery in the city says nearly 3,300 cases of beer went missing when two of its refrigerated trailers were stolen. SweetWater Brewing Co. said the trailers had been […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press I could eat quarts of gazpacho all summer long. When I set about making this version, the goal was a gazpacho with great, fresh tomato taste, but even deeper flavour. The solution was simple: roast the tomatoes first. The sweet, layered result is well […]
By Alexandra Posadzki The Canadian Press TORONTO — MintChip, the digital cash platform started by the Royal Canadian Mint and acquired earlier this year by Toronto financial technology startup nanoPay, will be available to consumers starting today. All Canadians are now able to download and use the MintChip app to […]
By Mary Clare Jalonick The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Among the Senate’s most vulnerable Republicans, Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey stood firmly with the powerful National Rifle Association on the latest ill-fated attempts at gun control. So did Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson. Not so Illinois Sen. […]
The Associated Press LONDON — Thousands of revelers have gathered at Stonehenge to watch the sun rise and celebrate the summer solstice. Some 12,000 people gathered at the stone circle to dance and do yoga on the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere Tuesday. The crowds were […]
By Saurabh Das The Associated Press CHANDIGARH, India — Millions of people twisted their bodies in complex positions in celebration of International Yoga Day on Tuesday. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined a crowd of 30,000 schoolchildren and other residents of the northern city of Chandigarh for a mass yoga […]
By Yuri Kageyama The Associated Press TOKYO — The Japanese government said Tuesday that Mitsubishi Motors Corp. overstated mileage on its vehicles by up to 16 per cent, but stopped short of slapping further penalties on the company. The Transport Ministry said the figure came from its own mileage tests […]
By Sara Moulton The Associated Press Summertime is harvest time for sweet stone fruits: apricots, peaches, plums, nectarines and plumcots, a hybrid of a plum and an apricot. Plumcots have been around at least since the days of Luther Burbank, who named them. They’re also known as apriplums. The trouble […]
By Vicky Ge Huang The Associated Press BANGKOK — Several convicted drunken drivers were brought to a Bangkok morgue Monday to see a corpse and reflect on the gory consequences of their actions as part of a program aimed at combating the carnage on Thailand’s roads. Thailand has the world’s […]
