SYDNEY (AP) — Strong winds hit Australia’s northeast coast Friday, leaving thousands without power, but the area was spared heavy damage as Tropical Cyclone Kirrily weakened into a tropical storm.Wind gusts of up to 170 kilometers an hour (105.6 miles per hour) battered coastal cities and towns, while fallen trees caused property damage. Weather officials
Jan. 19-25, 2024Brazilians began gearing up for the return of Carnival with street parties and samba school rehearsals. The world-famous event officially kicks off on Feb. 9th.Efrus, a 4-year-old Jack Russell terrier, surfs the waves in the Pacific waters off Peru. Argentina’s largest labor union organized a one-day general strike protesting President Javier Milei’s decree
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. trade body sounded an alarm Thursday that global trade is being disrupted by attacks in the Red Sea, the war in Ukraine, and low water levels in the Panama Canal.Jan Hoffmann, a trade expert at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development known as UNCTAD, warned that shipping
Jan. 19-25, 2024The roof of a car peeks out from the surface of floodwaters in California, Marine One kicks up snow as it lands at the White House in Washington and fog surrounds New York’s lower Manhattan.This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images in North America published in the past week by The
NEW YORK (AP) — Journalists at The New York Daily News and Forbes walked off the job Thursday amid contentious contract talks with management and a difficult few weeks in the news industry. Both strike are historic: It’s the first-ever at the business-focused magazine in more than a century, and the first at the storied
Muzika | 25.01.2024 | access_time 22:15 AP Photo/Ken Bizzigotti, File Melani Safka (Melanie), američka pevačica poznata samo kao Melani, koja je imala hit “Brand New Key” i slavna po nastupu na čuvenom muzičkom festivalu Vudstok, umrla je u 77. godini, preneo je danas britanski list Gardijan na svom sajtu.Njena deca su objavila njenu smrt na
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — An unprecedented surge in gang violence is plaguing Haiti, with the number of victims killed, injured and kidnapped more than doubling last year, the U.N. special envoy for the conflict-wracked Caribbean nations said Thursday.In a grim briefing, Maria Isabel Salvador told the U.N. Security Council, “I cannot overstress the severity of
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A judge on Thursday conditionally released U.S. rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine after he was arrested in the Dominican Republic last week on domestic violence charges.The rapper, whose real name is Daniel Hernández, was ordered to pay a $510 deposit, undergo government counseling and meet with authorities every two months until
A former WWE employee filed a federal lawsuit Thursday accusing executive Vince McMahon and another former executive of serious sexual misconduct, including offering her to a star wrestler for sex.The graphic 67-page suit from Janel Grant, who worked in the company’s legal and talent departments, also includes allegations that McMahon, now 78, forced her into
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A school shooting that killed four students in Michigan could have been prevented if the mother of the armed teen had removed him after seeing his violent drawings that same day, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday in an uncommon trial about parental responsibility.Jennifer Crumbley is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the
