STOCKHOLM (AP) — Police say Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who had lived under police protection since his 2007 sketch of the Prophet Muhammad with a dog’s body brought death threats, has died in a traffic accident. He was 75. Vilks and two plainclothes police bodyguards were killed in a head-on crash with a truck on
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By George Ramsay, CNN Video produced by Finn McSkimming When Tanitoluwa “Tani” Adewumi mulls his next move on a chessboard, his instinct is to pile pressure on his opponent. “I’m aggressive, I like to attack,” he tells CNN Sport of his playing style. “It’s just the way I think in general: I want to checkmate
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Quedarte dormido cuando tu cabeza toca la almohada… ¿es eso uno de tus más grandes sueños? Una vía rápida a la tierra de los sueños podría parecer el nirvana, pero no precisamente significa que sea sano. “La persona que ha descansado bien no se duerme de inmediato”, dijo la especialista en sueño
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Global stocks have fallen, with Hong Kong’s benchmark down more than 2% after troubled property developer China Evergrande’s shares were suspended from trading. Shares fell in Paris, Frankfurt and Tokyo. U.S. futures also declined. A Chinese financial news service said another developer planned to acquire Evergrande’s property management unit.
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Global stocks have fallen, with Hong Kong’s benchmark down more than 2% after troubled property developer China Evergrande’s shares were suspended from trading. Shares fell in Paris, Frankfurt and Tokyo. U.S. futures also declined. A Chinese financial news service said another developer planned to acquire Evergrande’s property management unit.
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By Alta Spells, Holly Yan and Amir Vera, CNN A swath of the Southern California coast is covered with oil after 3,000 barrels’ worth gushed into the Pacific Ocean — devastating some of the local wildlife, officials said. A pipeline breach occurred about 5 miles off the coast of Huntington Beach, Orange County Supervisor Katrina
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press ABOARD GEO BARENTS (AP) — A United Nations tally obtained by the Associated Press on Monday shows that the number of migrants rounded up in Libya’s unprecedented crackdown has exceeded 5,000 people. That includes 215 children and over 540 women. The U.N. says at least 30 of those detainees were
Continue Reading By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Indian authorities have suspended internet services and barred political leaders from entering a northern town after eight people were killed in a deadly escalation of protests against contentious agriculture laws. Officials and farm leaders say four farmers died when a car owned by India’s junior home
Continue Reading STOCKHOLM (AP) — The first of the 2021 Nobel Prizes is announced Monday with the naming of the winner, or winners, in the field of physiology or medicine. A panel at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm will announce the recipient after 0930 GMT. Last year’s prize went to three scientists who discovered the liver-ravaging hepatitis
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA and JIM SALTER Associated Press Former conservative Republican U.S. Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri has died. Akin’s son Perry says in a statement that his father died late Sunday at age 74 from cancer. Akin’s comment in 2012 that women’s bodies have a way of avoiding pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape”
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By JOHN HANNA and JIM SALTER Associated Press Former conservative Republican U.S. Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri has died. Akin’s son Perry says in a statement that his father died late Sunday at age 74 from cancer. Akin’s comment in 2012 that women’s bodies have a way of avoiding pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape”
Continue Reading WILDWOOD, Mo. (AP) — Ex-US Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri, who sunk a Senate bid with a comment about ‘legitimate rape,’ is dead at age 74.
Continue Reading By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer For all the talk about postseason expansion, the current format held up pretty well this year, if the idea is to create compelling, close races at the end of the season. The final day of the regular season began with four teams still in the mix for the American
Continue Reading By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer SMU’s Tanner Mordecai is throwing touchdown passes at the fastest rate in the Football Bowl Subdivision since 2012. The Oklahoma transfer has passed for at least four touchdowns in each of the Mustangs’ games and his total of 24 is the most through five games since West Virginia’s
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis and dozens of religious leaders are making a joint appeal to governments to commit to ambitious targets at the upcoming U.N. climate conference. Francis is hosting a daylong conference Monday at the Vatican that climaxed with the signing and handover of the joint appeal to
Continue Reading By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghans lining up recently to make complaints at a Taliban-run police station found something new. The police did not demand bribes. That’s a stark contrast to the ousted, U.S.-led government, under which corruption was rampant at every level. The Taliban are promising a return of some
Continue Reading ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been sworn in for a second five-year term running a country in the grip of a nearly year-long war. Abiy’s Prosperity Party was declared the winner of parliamentary elections earlier this year in a vote criticized and at times boycotted by opposition parties but
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — El sorteo estimado de US$ 635 millones de Powerball del sábado no tuvo ningún ganador, confirmó a CNN un funcionario de la Asociación de Loterías Multiestatales (MUSL, por sus siglas en inglés). Los números no afortunados fueron 28-38-42-47-52 y el Powerball fue 1. El próximo sorteo es este lunes por la noche.
Continue Reading By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press WERLTE, Germany (AP) — German officials have unveiled what they say is the world’s first commercial plant for making synthetic kerosene as part of an effort to reduce the climate impact of flying. The facility near Germany’s northwestern border with the Netherlands will use water and electricity
Continue Reading By LARRY LAGE and JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writers ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Owen Power passed on a chance to make millions this season with the Buffalo Sabres as the No. 1 overall pick in the NHL draft. Power chose to stay in school and returned for his sophomore season at Michigan. He is
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