Category: Trends

Comment on this story Comment TOKYO — A landslide destroyed about a dozen homes in northern Japan on Saturday, leaving at least two people missing, and troops were on their way to help in the rescue effort, officials said. Two people, a man and a woman, were rescued from homes that were buried in dirt […]

North Korea could hold nuclear test soon U.S. officials say North Korea could hold nuclear test “at any time” 03:33 North Korea fired three ballistic missiles toward the North’s eastern waters Saturday morning, South Korea’s military said. It’s the first missile launch by North Korea in eight days, and comes five days after South Korea […]

Comment on this story Comment Long before he was the butt of a viral joke from climate activist Greta Thunberg or accused of human trafficking, Andrew Tate claimed he was bored growing up. As a child, his boredom was occupied by chess in the hope of following his dad’s footsteps as a great player because, […]

Comment on this story Comment TIMBUKTU, Mali — Forty-six soldiers from Ivory Coast were sentenced to 20 years in prison for undermining state security in Mali and for attacks on Mali’s government, the African nation’s prosecutor general said Friday. The soldiers were also fined more than $3,000 and convicted of carrying and transporting weapons, Prosecutor […]

Comment on this story Comment UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly has asked the U.N.’s highest judicial body to give its opinion on the legality of Israeli policies in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem. The Assembly voted by a wide margin, but with over 50 countries abstaining, on Friday evening to send […]

Comment on this story Comment CAIRO — Suspected Islamic militants attacked a police checkpoint Friday in Egypt’s Suez Canal city of Ismailia, killing at least four people, including three police officers, officials and state-run media said. The attack also wounded 12 others, mostly conscripts who were taken to hospital, according to a casualty tally document […]

Arata Isozaki, an architect who fused styles and sensibilities from the West and his native Japan during a career of restless exploration, including a twisting metal obelisk at the Art Tower Mito in Japan and the meditative halls of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, died Dec. 28 at his home on Japan’s […]

MEXICO CITY — Authorities in central Mexico said Friday they found a strange holiday-season package at a local airport: four human skulls being shipped to the United States. Mexico’s National Guard said its officers were called to an airport in the city of Queretaro after an X-ray detected strange shapes in a cardboard box. The […]

Comment on this story Comment HAMILTON, Ontario — There was no evidence of working smoke alarms in a Hamilton house that caught fire, claiming the lives of four people, Ontario officials said Friday. Two adults and two children died in a hospital after firefighters pulled them from the second floor of the burning townhouse Thursday […]

The death of Brazilian soccer legend Pelé on Thursday ignited a wave of mourning across the world. And for those at NASA, the 82-year-old’s death even surpassed the realms of the planet.  The space agency tweeted its own tribute for “the legendary Pelé” on Thursday, sharing a mesmerizing photo of a spiral galaxy that depicts […]