Lyft Inc. offered Wednesday to pay $27 million -- more than double what the company had originally proposed — to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by California drivers who wanted to be classified as employees.
Читать дальше...Armed with ice cream, city officials lobby for more spending in rural areas.
Home visits by mobile GPs are booming in Australia, causing some doctors to question whether the "Uberisation" of medicine is ripping off Medicare.
YOKOHAMA - Photo taken May 11, 2016, in Hachioji, western Tokyo, shows Kurumi wears makeup before her debut as ...
CHESTER, Pennsylvania - Keegan Rosenberry scored his first MLS goal in the 63rd minute and the Philadelphia Union tied the Los Angeles Galaxy 2-2 on Wednesday night.
Marty Snider interviewed Rudd and Childress about their memories of the team's first victory in 1983.
Vanessa Hudgens strikes a pose in a shot from the new I’m A Dancers Against Cancer national awareness photo campaign. The 27-year-old actress joined dancers Julianne and Derek Hough, Paula Abdul and Chita Rivera in the campaign for the organization that provides financial support to dancers, teachers and parents impacted by cancer. PHOTOS: Check out [...]
New acts kept K-pop fans enchanted on YouTube last month, as two fresh groups snagging the top-viewed music videos on the service...
For the first time in two years, climbers have reached the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain. On Thursday, “9 Sherpa using supplemental oxygen became the first to summit on the South Side of Everest in the past 3 years [sic],” climber Adrian Balinger posted on Instagram. [Editor’s note: An earlier version of […]
Bev Miller isn't ready to make her final pitch from the OSU Softball Complex circle.
Hong Kong remains the most connected place in the world, while the UAE is catching up, the South China Morning Post reports.
At this time of the year, 90-man rosters are almost always in flux. Per Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle, the Texans plan to re-sign a rookie linebacker they just cut. Eric Lee was waived Tuesday with a designation that Lee failed to disclose a physical condition, which in this case is a knee issue.…
For 30 years, Yu Huajian reminded couples to have just one child and to abide by the law. Now, he and some of the half a million other family-planning workers are teaching parents how to better raise their children.
A day after the Election Commission set the ball rolling for polls to the legislative council from the South Graduates constituency, the poll machinery got into action on Wednesday holding meetings and assigning poll-related duties to the senior officials.
HOUSTON - After Cody Anderson's start was pushed back this week because of Cleveland's off day on Thursday, manager Terry Francona said the right-hander might make an appearance out of the bullpen.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil — and for good measure — confront no evil.
The U.S. government’s attempts to prevent tax fraud will force millions of low-income households to wait weeks longer than usual next year to get tax refunds they depend on.
As officials have begun distributing polling booth slips, complaints about discrepancies and errors in the slips have increased by the day.
Over 2,000 people including students from various schools in the city participated in the Open Day organised by the Defence Food Research Laboratory here on Wednesday.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Pick 10" game were: 04-07-12-13-19-21-23-24-26-28-31-32-33-41-44-47-51-57-71-78 (four, seven, twelve, thirteen, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-six, twenty-eight, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, forty-one, forty-four, forty-seven, fifty-one, fifty-seven, seventy-one, seventy-eight)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Kenyan government will close Dadaab refugee camp, which has hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees and is often referred to as the world's largest camp, the East African country's interior security minister said Wednesday.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Kenyan government will close Dadaab refugee camp, which has hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees and is often referred to as the world's largest camp, the East African country's interior security minister said Wednesday. Dadaab camp, with an estimated 328,000 refugees mostly from Somalia, compromises Kenya's security because it harbors some of Somalia's al-Shabab Islamic extremists and is a conduit for smuggling weapons, Joseph Nkaissery said. Last week the Kenyan... Читать дальше...
Treasury Board President Scott Brison is scheduled to announce the reforms Thursday morning in Ottawa
Karnataka Arebhashe Samskritika and Sahitya Academy, Madikeri, in association with Kodagu Gowda Samaja will hold a two-day meet from May 14 to preserve and promote the old Kodagu Gowda culture.
It is irrational to apply severe restrictions to a much safer product while allowing widespread access to deadly cigarettes.