Godspeed John Glenn: 50 years since first US orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The name still resonates and generates goose bumps like few others in the world of spaceflight. John Glenn. Even astronauts — not just the rest of us mere mortals — get mushy talking about Project…
Manchester City report ‘racist’ chants from Porto fans
Manchester City have lodged an official complaint to UEFA after alleged racial abuse to some of their players during Thursday’s Europa League game at Porto. Team-mate Yaya Toure told Sky Sports News: “I heard something. “That’s why we like the…
London takes over fashion spotlight from New York
LONDON (AP) — London Fashion Week kicked off with a splash of colour Friday shown by British designers Antoni & Alison, the first of dozens of catwalk shows jammed into the next six days. The London duo, known for their…
Nigerian underwear bomber gets life in prison
DETROIT (AP) — Defiantly declaring “a day of victory,” a Nigerian man was given a mandatory life sentence Thursday for trying to blow up a packed jetliner with a bomb sewn into his underwear. People aboard the flight testified that…
Rupert Murdoch: No defense for tabloid wrongdoers
LONDON (AP) — News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch on Friday told staff at his scandal-hit British tabloid The Sun that executives will continue to give police any evidence of wrongdoing and won’t protect reporters found to have broken the…
Amanda Knox has deal with HarperCollins for memoir
NEW YORK (AP) — Amanda Knox has a book deal. The young exchange student whose conviction in Italy and eventual acquittal on murder charges made headlines worldwide has an agreement with HarperCollins to tell her story. The 24-year-old Seattle resident,…
Most Honduras fire inmates awaited trial
COMAYAGUA, Honduras (AP) — The prisoners whose scorched bodies were carried out piece by piece Thursday morning from a charred Honduran prison had been locked inside an overcrowded penitentiary where most inmates had never been charged, let alone convicted, according…
China’s vice president shows personal side in Iowa
MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) — China’s vice president remembered the popcorn he’d received as a parting gift — and the strong Chinese liquor he left behind. He recalled one young girl asking whether he’d seen American movies, and being shocked when…
Arsenal’s Champions League defeat a disaster – Arsene Wenger
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger described his side’s 4-0 last-16 first-leg hammering by AC Milan as “shocking” and the result as “a disaster”. Wenger admits his side are all-but out of the Champions League following their worst defeat in European competition….
Counterfeit drugs becoming big business worldwide
WASHINGTON (AP) — The discovery that a fake version of the widely used cancer medicine Avastin is circulating in the United States is raising new fears that the multibillion-dollar drug-counterfeiting trade is increasingly making inroads in the U.S. The criminal…
