By COURTNEY WALSH Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has vowed to address the “litany of woe” created by the nation’s former government while raising concerns about the Pacific nation’s massive debt. In his first address to the country since being sworn in to office on Christmas Eve, Rabuka said
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN The last year in architecture will be remembered as one of firsts, from the world’s first “upcycled” skyscraper winning World Building of the Year to Burkina Faso-born Francis Kéré becoming the first African architect to win the coveted Pritzker Prize. It was also a year in which we lost industry giants like
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza Buffalo, Nueva York (CNN) — La madre de Casey Maccarone siempre fue una especie de supermujer, pero aun así, cuando Monique Alexander decidió salir en Nochebuena, Maccarone se preocupó. Habría sido una decisión sencilla cualquier otro día, pero se estaba formando una tormenta de nieve que dejaría algunas áreas del oeste de
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares slipped in Europe and Asia on Thursday after benchmarks fell more than 1% on Wall Street in the middle of a mostly quiet and holiday-shortened week. U.S. futures were mixed and oil prices declined more than $1 a barrel. Investors are watching to see how
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares slipped in Europe and Asia on Thursday after benchmarks fell more than 1% on Wall Street in the middle of a mostly quiet and holiday-shortened week. U.S. futures were mixed and oil prices declined more than $1 a barrel. Investors are watching to see how
Continue Reading By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A massive fire that lasted more than 12 hours in a Cambodian hotel casino killed at least 16 people and injured about 50, while other victims were apparently not yet accounted for Thursday, as neighboring Thailand sent firetrucks to help fight the blaze in a
Continue Reading By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A massive fire that lasted more than 12 hours in a Cambodian hotel casino killed at least 16 people and injured about 50, while other victims were apparently not yet accounted for Thursday, as neighboring Thailand sent firetrucks to help fight the blaze in a
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El gobernador de Santa Cruz Fernando Camacho, un destacado líder opositor boliviano que se postuló a la presidencia en 2020, aceptó el derecho a guardar silencio ante la fiscalía del país en el caso del “golpe de Estado I”, informó este jueves la estatal Agencia Boliviana de Información, ABI.
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Stacker ranked a dozen sports records set in the year 2022, including milestones from Aaron Judge, Alyssa Thomas, and more.
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Stacker takes a look at 50 major retail chains that no longer exist and the reasons for their demise.
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Nurses are crucial to health care and public health. With Bureau of Labor Statistics data, Study.com ranked median wages for five different types of nurses.
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Stacker compiled a list of the world’s richest celebrities using data collected from Celebrity Net Worth‘s rankings by current net worth.
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Citing the 2021 Annual Report on Conservation and Science from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Stacker looked at the 27 most targeted species focusing on the five main vertebrate groups.
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Stacker compiled a list of LGBTQ+ people who made history in 2022 from news and other sources.
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Stacker gathered data on all movies turning 50 in 2023 and ranked the top 50 according to IMDb user ratings, with ties broken by votes.
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Experian created a hypothetical basket of commonly purchased grocery items to illustrate how food costs have shifted in the last two decades.
Continue Reading By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus. It led humankind into outer space, exploded the most powerful nuclear weapon ever, and inflicted bloody purges and cruel labor camps on its own citizens while portraying itself
Continue Reading ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic has reiterated his earlier comments that he bears no hard feelings on his return to Australia after his visa cancellation and subsequent deportation in January ahead of the Australian Open tennis tournament. Djokovic was deported almost 12 months ago after arriving unvaccinated against COVID-19 at a time when the
Continue Reading SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A freight truck collided with a bus on a highway near the South Korean capital Seoul on Thursday, causing a fire that killed at least five people and injured 37 others, officials said. It wasn’t immediately known what caused the collision and fire, nor what cargo the truck was carrying.
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Krupa, Nouran Salahieh and Alaa Elassar, CNN As authorities in Buffalo, New York, continue following up on some of the hundreds of calls for help made during and since the historic weekend blizzard — a “grueling, gruesome task” that’s revealed people dead in cars and snowbanks — officials are facing tough questions about
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