By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer A 10-event run called the International Series will form part of this season’s Asian Tour in a move that could prove to be a threat to golf’s two main tours. The series is being funded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and fronted by former world No. 1 Greg
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has bought himself some breathing space with an apology for lockdown parties and a promise to change. But his troubles are far from over. Johnson is battling to rally a rancorous Conservative Party on Tuesday after an inquiry slammed failures of leadership
Continue Reading By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark has become one of the first European Union countries to scrap most pandemic restrictions as the country no longer considers the COVID-19 outbreak “a socially critical disease.” The reason for that is that while the omicron variant is surging in Denmark it’s not placing
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By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business India is planning to launch a digital version of the rupee, becoming the latest country to join the rush to create state-backed virtual currencies. The country’s central bank expects to introduce the currency “using blockchain and other technologies” some time in the new fiscal year, which begins in April, according
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By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN A penguin couple received an extra special New Year’s gift at a zoo in New York, where they became the organization’s first same-sex foster parents to successfully hatch an egg. The chick was hatched on January 1 by Elmer and Lima, two adult male Humboldt penguins, at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — El único sobreviviente del naufragio de un barco que zozobró frente a la costa de la Florida la semana pasada perdió a su hermana en el mar y pasó días angustiosos luchando por sobrevivir, dijo a periodistas en una conferencia de prensa el lunes. Juan Esteban Montoya, un colombiano de 22 años,
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Two companies involved in storing and supplying oil and other materials say they have been hit by a cyberattack that has impacted operations in Germany. Oiltanking GmbH Group and Mabanaft Group said they discovered the “cyber incident affecting our IT systems” on Saturday and launched an investigation together with external specialists, the
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By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Rio Tinto has found disturbing patterns of racism, sexism, harassment and sexual assault among its global workforce of 47,500, according to a new investigation. On Tuesday, the mining giant published the findings of an external review it commissioned last year after months of scrutiny about how workers were being treated.
Continue Reading By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials have denied reports that Moscow sent Washington a written response to a U.S. proposal aimed at deescalating the Ukraine crisis. The Kremlin is seeking legally binding guarantees from the U.S. and NATO precluding the alliance from expanding eastwards and accepting Ukraine as a member amid
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Whoopi Goldberg, moderadora del programa “The View”, causó indignación por afirmar repetidamente que “el Holocausto no se trata de raza”. Sus comentarios se produjeron durante un segmento del programa de entrevistas de ABC el lunes que se centró en parte en la decisión de un distrito escolar de Tennessee de prohibir “Maus”,
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Amanda Florian, CNN After realizing there weren’t any Koreans in the pantheon of iconic Disney princesses, 22-year-old Julia Riew set out to create one herself, along with an accompanying musical. The Harvard student, who grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, has been writing and composing for years. But with her seventh full musical to date,
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares have advanced, mirroring broad overnight gains on Wall Street. Shares in France, Germany and Britain rose in early trading following gains in Tokyo and Australia. Trading in China and most other Asian markets was closed for Lunar New Year holidays. Sony Corp. stock finished
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer Two-time Alpine skiing gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin has been thinking a lot about the stress and pressure that gymnast Simone Biles and swimmer Caeleb Dressel discussed during last year’s Tokyo Olympics. And Shiffrin knows that she will face similar burdens when her races at the Beijing Winter Games begin
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Hablemos sobre una llegada memorable al mundo, o, en este caso, por encima del mundo. El pasado fin de semana, una mujer entró en labor de parto durante un vuelo que partía de Ghana, una nación de África Occidental, hacia Estados Unidos. Esto ocurrió en el vuelo 997 de United Airlines, que
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TUESDAY Temperatures are mild to start out this morning. We’ll top out near 50 early on this afternoon with rain off and on throughout the day. Winds will start to pick up as a front moves through, knocking temperatures back into the 30’s by this evening. TONIGHT As that colder air moves in, the rain
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By Travis Caldwell and Jenn Selva, CNN Staying up late on Super Bowl Sunday to watch the game has notoriously left plenty of football fans needing a day to recover, win or lose. For long-suffering supporters of the Cincinnati Bengals — who are playing in their first title game in more than 30 years —
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By Andrew Carey, CNN Amnesty International has become the latest human rights organization to accuse Israel of apartheid for its treatment of Palestinians, prompting an angry response from Israel, which has denounced the report as anti-Semitic. Amnesty’s nearly 300-page report, released Tuesday, details “inhuman or inhumane acts of forcible transfer, administrative detention, torture, unlawful killings
Continue Reading COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark has become one of the first European Union countries to scrap most pandemic restrictions as the country no longer considers the COVID-19 outbreak “a socially critical disease.” The reason for that is that while the omicron variant is surging in Denmark it’s not placing a heavy burden on the health
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By Nectar Gan and Lizzy Yee, CNN American bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor flew to Beijing last week with her sights set on finally winning her first Olympic gold. But instead of settling in and training for the 2022 Winter Games, the 37-year-old is stuck alone in a hotel room following a positive test for Covid-19
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By Raja Razek and Chris Boyette, CNN A hotline for people to report hate incidents is being set up in Ottawa as the Canadian capital grapples with ongoing protests over Covid-19 mandates that police say have led to reports of threatening, illegal and intimidating behavior by the demonstrators, rattling downtown residents and workers. “We already
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