Tech tycoon Mike Lynch, one of six people missing from a sunken yacht off Sicily, had been trying to move past a Silicon Valley debacle that had tarnished his legacy as an icon of British ingenuity. Lynch, 59, struck gold when he sold Autonomy, a software maker he founded in 1996, to Hewlett-Packard for $11
A luxury superyacht carrying foreign tourists capsized and sank off the Italian island of Sicily in bad weather early Monday. One body was found, six people remain missing and 15 people were rescued, authorities said. A luxury superyacht carrying foreign tourists capsized and sank off the Italian island of Sicily in bad weather early Monday.
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. George Santos arrived Monday afternoon at a New York courthouse, and a person familiar with the matter has said the Republican is expected to plead guilty to multiple counts in his federal fraud case. The person could not publicly discuss details of the plea and spoke to
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus has deployed aircraft and air defense troops to its border with Ukraine, a day after President Alexander Lukashenko announced he would station almost a third of the country’s military along the frontier. The Belarusian military also deployed anti-aircraft missiles and soldiers from the country’s radio-technical corps, Maj. Gen. Andrey Lukyanovich
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States, the country’s health minister said Monday, days after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in Africa a global emergency . Mpox cases have been confirmed among children and adults in more than
MIAMI (AP) — As registration opened Monday for an estimated 500,000 spouses of U.S. citizens to gain legal status without having to first leave the country, Karen and Xavier Chavarria had nothing to celebrate. Like many others, Karen left the United States voluntarily — in her case, for Nicaragua — as the price of living
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The first day of school was chaotic for many St. Louis families Monday after three bus vendors pulled out at the last minute, leaving hundreds of parents scrambling to get their kids to classes. St. Louis Public Schools has been struggling to devise a plan to get kids to classes since
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s new finance minister says some of the proposed taxes that led to weeks of deadly protests earlier this year will be reintroduced through a tax amendment bill as the country struggles to find revenue to pay off debts. The announcement by John Mbadi in a local television interview broadcast Sunday
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Three security guards are facing trial this week in the death of a man who was pinned to the ground during a fierce struggle more than 10 years ago at a suburban Detroit shopping mall. McKenzie Cochran, 25, was unarmed and repeatedly told guards, “I can’t breathe,” while face down, following
