Today is Sunday, Aug. 14, the 227th day of 2016 with 139 to follow. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Neptune and Uranus. Evening stars are Venus, Mercury, Mars, Saturn and Neptune. Those born on this date are under the sign of Leo. They include pioneer German psychologist Richard ... Read More »
A 27-year-old Swiss man set fire to a train and attacked passengers with a knife in northeastern Switzerland on Saturday, injuring six, including a six-year-old child, police said. The motive for the attack is unclear and has left several of the injured in serious condition, suffering from stab wounds and ... Read More »
An Alberta man made the most of his city’s flooding by going for a cruise on his jet ski in the middle of a street. The video, recorded July 31 in Fort McMurray, shows a man riding a jet ski around a flooded street in the Alberta city amid heavy ... Read More »
Torrential rainfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast has caused “unprecedented” flooding in parts of Louisiana, Governor John Bel Edwards said on Saturday, while claiming at least three lives. The National Weather Service issued flood watches for parts of southeastern Texas through Sunday evening and extended its flash flood warning further ... Read More »
Boutique advisory firms now receive nearly half of all mergers and acquisition fees in Europe, stealing market share and top dealmakers from global investment banks hamstrung by a renewed focus on cost-cutting and regulations on how much they can pay. Founded largely by veterans fleeing bureaucracy and shrinking paychecks at ... Read More »
Olympics organizers battled an array of persistent problems as the Games entered its second week on Saturday, from a lurid green diving pool to competitors taken to the wrong venue, and a long-distance swimming pontoon swept away by the waves. The refusal of the Olympic diving pool to return to ... Read More »
Kurdish Peshmerga forces launched a fresh attack on Islamic State (IS) militants early on Sunday, as part of a campaign to capture the de facto IS capital Mosul, a Kurdish official said. The advance began after heavy shelling and U.S.-led coalition air strikes against IS forces, a Reuters correspondent reported ... Read More »
Britain could leave the European Union towards the end of 2019, instead of early that year as expected by some politicians, reported the Sunday Times citing sources who have been briefed by ministers that Brexit departments were not ready. The UK voted to leave the EU on June 23, but ... Read More »
Protesters fired gunshots, hurled bricks and set a gas station on fire in the U.S. mid-western city of Milwaukee on Saturday night, hours after a patrol officer shot and killed an armed suspect who took flight after a traffic stop, authorities said. The 23-year-old suspect, who had a lengthy arrest ... Read More »
From the beginning of the men’s skeet semi-final on Saturday, there was something about Abdullah Al-Rashidi that grabbed the Brazilian fans. Maybe it was his age, the oldest of the competitors at 52. Maybe it was the fact that the Kuwaiti was competing under the Olympic flag, his country having ... Read More »
Thousands of Venezuelans were welcomed to Colombia by a military band early on Saturday morning as the two countries’ borders were officially reopened after being closed by Venezuela a year ago. Some people had traveled across Venezuela to queue overnight hoping to cross to buy food and other basics that ... Read More »
Thousands of Venezuelans were welcomed to Colombia by a military band early on Saturday morning as the two countries’ borders were officially reopened after being closed by Venezuela a year ago. Some people had traveled across Venezuela to queue overnight hoping to cross to buy food and other basics that ... Read More »
