By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Owning a car in Singapore, one of the world’s most expensive countries, has always been something of a luxury. But costs have now soared to an all time high. A 10-year Certificate of Entitlement – a license people in the wealthy city state must purchase before they are even
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By Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — The Powerball jackpot soared to an estimated $1.4 billion for Saturday – which would be the third largest jackpot in the game’s history – after Wednesday night’s drawing turned up no grand prize winner. The prize up for grabs Saturday would also be the fifth largest US lottery jackpot,
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CNN By Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — The Powerball jackpot soared to an estimated $1.4 billion for Saturday – which would be the third largest jackpot in the game’s history – after Wednesday night’s drawing turned up no grand prize winner. The prize up for grabs Saturday would also be the fifth largest US lottery
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Otro sorteo de Powerball sin premios está elevando el premio mayor por las nubes. Nadie acertó todos los números en el sorteo de este miércoles por la noche, que tuvo un valor estimado de US$ 1.200 millones, según la Asociación de Lotería Multiestatal. El sorteo produjo un gran número de personas
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It’s been 15 years since the world’s elite ballooning pilots have gathered in the United States for a race with roots stretching back more than a century. They’ll be launching for this year’s Gordon Bennett competition during an international balloon fiesta that draws hundreds of
Continue ReadingVANCOUVER Brian White scored his 15th goal of the season and the Vancouver Whitecaps beat St. Louis City 3-0 on Wednesday night to clinch an MLS playoff spot. Vancouver (12-10-10) came into the match needing a win and for either Minnesota or Dallas to lose or draw in their games to secure a playoff spot
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia state Senate committee says it will start its own investigation of jail conditions in the state’s most populous county. The Thursday announcement comes three months after the U.S. Justice Department launched its own inquiry of Fulton County jail conditions. Senate Public Safety Committee Chairman John
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN Español) — La Fiscalía del estado de Jalisco, en el occidente de México, arrestó a un segundo hombre sospechoso de haber participado en la desaparición de cinco jóvenes de la localidad de Lagos de Moreno, un caso que desde agosto pasado atrae la atención nacional. En un comunicado difundido este miércoles, la
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — They creep, they crawl, they feast on your blood as you sleep. They may travel in your clothes or backpacks to find another person worth dining on — on the subway, or at the cinema. Bedbugs go where you go, and they have become a nightmare haunting
Continue Reading By Francesca Annio and Chris Lau, CNN Tokyo/Hong Kong (CNN) — A Japanese sushi chain targeted in a spate of pranks that has sparked concern over hygiene has devised a digital conveyor belt to serve food to customers. Instead of placing sushi on a rotating conveyor belt for customers to pick up — famously known
Continue ReadingBy SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Typhoon Koinu is sweeping southern Taiwan. One person has died and more than 300 have been injured. The typhoon’s rain and record-breaking winds have led the island to suspend flights and close schools and offices. Koinu, which means “puppy” in Japanese, made landfall early Thursday in
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has quietly helped fuel Azerbaijan’s campaign to recapture Nagorno-Karabakh, supplying powerful weapons to Azerbaijan ahead of its lightening offensive last month that brought the ethnic Armenian enclave back under its control, officials and experts say. Just weeks before Azerbaijan launched its 24-hour assault on
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press When the megaphone called out for the daily Islamic prayers, the nonbeliever grabbed his prayer beads and ambled through the streets to join others at the mosque in Kano, northern Nigeria’s largest city. Formerly a Muslim, he now identifies as an atheist but remains closeted, performing religious obligations only as
Continue ReadingBy MARIAM FAM Associated Press There’s the Tunisian woman who fasts during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, though not for God. The Iraqi woman who, until recently, wore a hijab. And a man whose Egyptian identity card still identifies him as “Muslim.” Such are the ways that some of the religiously unaffiliated, or “nones”
Continue ReadingBy LUIS ANDRES HENAO and NATACHA PISARENKO Associated Press CAPILLA DEL MONTE, Argentina (AP) — In the pope’s homeland, there’s a woman who believes in angels and calls them aliens. Another who proudly identifies as a witch. And a spiritual guru so turned off by the Vatican’s opulence that he left the church to help
Continue ReadingBy GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press ISOLA DEL GRAN SASSO, Italy (AP) — Two children scribbled petitions to St. Gabriele dell’Addolorata in the sanctuary where the young saint is venerated in this central Italian mountain village. Andrea, 6, asked for blessings for his family and pets, while Sofia, 9, offered thanksgiving for winning a dance competition.
Continue ReadingBy PETER SMITH Associated Press Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy “the beauty of the morning on the beach,” he recalled. “And it felt more spiritual than any time I
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Momo Nomura, a graphic artist and entrepreneur, visits a shrine near her business meetings or trips almost weekly. She prays first according to the Shinto rules, then heads to the reception to get a Goshuin, a seal stamp certifying her visit that comes with elegant calligraphy and
Continue ReadingBy DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press CHENNAI, India (AP) — Despite India’s millennia-old history of nonreligious movements, most atheists and rationalists choose to keep quiet about their skepticism of faith — it’s easier and far less risky than going public in one of the world’s most religious countries. The space that does exist for debating religious
Continue ReadingBy ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press MEVASSERET ZION, Israel (AP) — Israel is a nation perennially swept up in religious fervor and conflict. And yet, strikingly, a large portion of its population is secular, and even its insular ultra-Orthodox community loses a steady stream of members who tire of its strict religious rules. The country
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