The Associated Press IRVING, Texas A Muslim teenager detained by police after a teacher at his North Texas high school decided that a homemade clock he proudly brought to class looked like a bomb will not face criminal charges, a police chief said Wednesday. Ahmed Mohamed will not be charged […]
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By Alison Ladman THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ready to get retro with your baked goodies? How about a batch of do-it-yourself toaster pastries? They are easier than you think. After all, the ones you buy are nothing more than two sheets of (not particularly good) pastry dough sandwiching a sugary filling. […]
By Aarti Sequeira The Associated Press I’ve long admired black sesame seeds for the touch of mystery and glamor they add to everything from seared tuna to burger buns. But these days, I’m craving these tiny shards of onyx for their intense nuttiness and subtle sweetness. In the Middle East […]
By Mike Corder And Dusan Stojanovic The Associated Press ASOTTHALOM, Hungary Small groups of migrants continued to sneak into Hungary on Wednesday, a day after the country sealed its border with Serbia and began arresting people trying to breach the razor-wire barrier, while migrants began arriving in Croatia seeking a […]
By Christopher Sherman The Associated Press COCULA, Mexico On the morning of her high school graduation, Berenice Navarijo Segura was delayed for a hair and makeup appointment by an explosion of gunfire in the centre of town. Her mother was up before dawn preparing stewed goat and beans for the […]
By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Space station astronaut Scott Kelly is halfway home. Kelly marked the midway point of his yearlong space mission Tuesday. He’s sharing the voyage with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. They arrived at the International Space Station in March and won’t return to […]
The Associated Press Facebook may finally be getting a button that lets you quickly express something beyond a “like.” Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that people have been asking for a “dislike” button on the social media site for years. Speaking at an event at Facebook’s Menlo Park, […]
By Lynn Elber The Associated Press LOS ANGELES If we look to television for more than entertainment ‚Äî and let’s face it, we do ‚Äî then Sunday’s Emmy Awards ceremony will have something for everyone. The masterful storytelling of television’s second golden age rightfully will be centre stage, with leading […]
By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is shipping his space business to Florida. At a news conference Tuesday, Bezos announced that his Blue Origin space company will build rockets and launch them into orbit from Cape Canaveral. He plans to send up satellites […]
By Karl Ritter The Associated Press MALMO, Sweden The bleary-eyed travellers arriving in Malmo’s glass-and-steel train station agreed on one thing: Sweden was a better place to go than Denmark, which has cut welfare benefits for refugees. But many said Finland was even better. “Why Finland? I tell you, because […]
By Hyung-Jin Kim And Foster Klug The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of A day after threatening long-range rocket launches, North Korea declared Tuesday that it has upgraded and restarted all of its atomic fuel plants so it can produce more and more sophisticated nuclear weapons. Neither announcement was entirely […]
By Mike Corder And Shawn Pogatchnik The Associated Press ROSZKE, Hungary Hungary deployed a boxcar bristling with razor wire to close a key border crossing and warned of a new era of swift deportations Monday as governments across Europe debated how to share the burden of housing hundreds of thousands […]
