A team of soldiers from United Arab Emirates and other teams from the Indian army were among the climbers on the summit, Department of Mountaineering official Gyanendra Shrestha said. Climbers have been reaching the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) summit almost daily since May 11, but high winds had forced a break Tuesday and Wednesday before climbing resumed Thursday.
Media outlets report that residents found the 3-year-old girl and 1-year-old boy in the lot Sunday and called police. Detective Tommy Roberts says both children were wearing only night shirts and diapers.
It’s not the catch they were expecting, but for one California fisherman and his son — it was the most important catch of the day. Crab fisherman Calder Deyerle and his 5-year old son Miles are being credited by wildlife officials for spotting, reporting and then staying in their boat near an entangled humpback whale. […]
Jean Liu is in the thick of the battle for supremacy among China’s ride-hailing apps. She’s the president of Didi Chuxing, the startup that dominates the Chinese market. Didi claims 300 million users and 14 million registered drivers across 400 cities. Uber, its rival from the U.S., is in around 50 Chinese cities. Didi just […]
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National carrier EgyptAir says a plane carrying 66 passengers and crew on a flight from Paris to Cairo has gone missing. Natasha Howitt reports.
Racing Victoria officials are confident that the sale of Sandown and the building of two new inside tracks at Caulfield and Flemington will become reality in one to three years.
A policeman has killed eight of his comrades in the latest insider attack in southern Zabul province of Afghanistan, local officials said Thursday. The incident took place late on Wednesday night in a police check post located on Kabul-Kandahar highway. A security official confirmed that the policeman carried out the attack with the help of Read the full article...
The travel sector has had to "completely remix" its vacation destinations following threats of terrorism, Thomas Cook's CFO told CNBC.
The review into the state's anti-discrimination act, which was meant to also encompass how the Palaszczuk Government tackled Wicked Campers' offensive slogans, was never started.
The Chinese jets monitored the U.S. plane from an acceptable distance and operated in a safe and professional manner, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told journalists at a regularly scheduled news briefing. "According to the related Chinese authorities, the U.S. allegation is not true," Hong said. In 2001, a collision between a Chinese fighter jet and a U.S. surveillance plane in which the Chinese pilot was killed and the American crew detained on Hainan led to a crisis in U.S.-China relations.
ENSCHEDE - Een gedwongen huwelijk tussen het Orkest van het Oosten en het Gelders Orkest (HGO) is geen goed idee. Dat zegt interim-directeur Bart van Meijl van het Enschedese gezelschap in eerste reactie op het vandaag gepresenteerde advies van de Raad voor Cultuur.
The Moody's agency has forecast diminishing global growth in 2016, citing the slump in commodity prices and weaker emerging market performance as the main causes of the slowdown.
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Italian retail investors expose challenge of crafting Europe-wide rules
BUFFALO, Iowa (AP) — Police in eastern Iowa have released the name of a man whose body was pulled from the Mississippi River last week. On Wednesday the Buffalo Police Department identified the man as 35-year-old Gregory Dunbar. The cause of his death is being investigated. Authorities recovered the body Friday. Buffalo sits southwest of Davenport in Scott County.
CANNES, France (AP) — Blake Lively's channeling of Sir Mix-A-Lot for an Instagram caption is causing a stir on social media.
CANNES, France (AP) — Blake Lively's channeling of Sir Mix-A-Lot for an Instagram caption is causing a stir on social media.
CANNES, France (AP) — Blake Lively's channeling of Sir Mix-A-Lot for an Instagram caption is causing a stir on social media.
Lively posted side-by-side front and back shots of herself on the red carpet in Cannes, France, with the caption, "L.A. face with an Oakland booty," a line from rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot's 1992 hit, "Baby Got Back." People magazine reported last month that the 28-year-old Lively is expecting her second child with husband, actor Ryan Reynolds.
CANNES, France (AP) — Blake Lively's channeling of Sir Mix-A-Lot for an Instagram caption is causing a stir on social media.
NEW DELHI (AP) — India's ruling Hindu nationalist party made dramatic gains in elections in the eastern state of Assam but trailed in four other states, the election commission said Thursday. Data from the commission as of late afternoon showed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies will form the government in Assam, which has been ruled by the opposition Congress party for 15 years. Local polls are often seen as a barometer of the continuing popularity of the ruling national party... Читать дальше...