The family of a man who died in a car crash involving Venus Williams plan to sue the tennis superstar, a lawyer said Friday. Attorney Michael Steinger told ABC television’s “Good Morning America” that the family of Jerome Barson would file a wrongful death suit against Williams following the June 9 crash in Palm Beach … Read more
A Japanese budget airline apologised Wednesday for forcing a wheelchair-bound man to crawl up a set of stairs to board his flight. Hideto Kijima, 44, was returning last month to Osaka from a vacation in Amami, a small island off southern Japan, when an Vanilla Air employee told him that company safety rules banned anyone … Read more
Three CNN journalists have resigned following the retraction of an article that claimed the US Congress was investigating links between members of Donald Trump’s administration and a Russian investment fund. The US president seized on the incident to renew his repeated attacks on the cable network as a purveyor of “fake news.” Thomas Frank, the … Read more
The White House declined to comment Sunday on speculation that a pivotal US Supreme Court justice might announce his retirement on Monday, the last day of the high court’s current session. Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has cast the decisive vote in some of the court’s most far-reaching decisions, turns 81 next month and is widely … Read more
President Donald Trump on Sunday stepped up his criticism of Barack Obama’s response to concerns Russia was trying to disrupt the 2016 election, and some Democratic lawmakers agreed, with one calling the former leader’s handling of the threat a “serious mistake.” In a flurry of weekend tweets and a prerecorded television appearance, Trump said his … Read more
Bill Cosby is planning to hold a series of “town hall” meetings to talk to young people about his experiences with the US courts, his spokesman said Thursday, less than a week after his sex assault trial ended with a hung jury. “We are still in the planning stages… we are looking at the cities … Read more
A long line of mourners waited to enter funeral services early Thursday for Otto Warmbier, the US student imprisoned in North Korea who returned home last week in a coma that proved fatal. The services were being held in his home state of Ohio, with the funeral at his former high school and burial at … Read more
A US missionary who spent two years in a North Korean jail said Wednesday he had never imagined that a valuable American prisoner like student Otto Warmbier could die after being taken into Pyongyang’s custody. Kenneth Bae, who was arrested in 2012, sentenced to 15 years hard labour, then freed after a secret mission to … Read more
Boarded-up homes became a ubiquitous symbol of the US housing crash, with once-prosperous neighborhoods left to decay as mortgage defaults soared and no new buyers emerged. Some 10 years later, the national picture has improved and many places have boomed. Although the bricks and mortar of abandoned properties scar the streets of many states, suitors … Read more
Australia’s Ten Network, one of the nation’s three commercial channels which broadcasts shows such as “I’m a Celebrity”, was Wednesday placed in voluntary administration after failing to secure a new finance package. The station, which like many media groups is being hammered by slumping advertising revenues, was forced to take the drastic step after two … Read more
Oliver Stone, the Hollywood director and triple Oscar winner, puts Russian President Vladimir Putin in US living rooms on Monday by broadcasting interviews with a leader who fascinates and repels many Americans in equal measure. “The Putin Interviews” is the product of 12 conversations between the Russian leader and Stone between July 2015 and February … Read more
In her first interview since being released from a top-security US military prison, WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning says justice “has been served.” Manning, a former army intelligence analyst who served seven years for one of the largest dumps of classified documents in US history, acknowledged responsibility for leaking the material. “I’ve accepted responsibility,” Manning, 29, … Read more
Qatar-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera said Thursday that it was under a widescale cyber attack which had targeted “all systems”, according to a statement released on social media by the broadcaster. “Al Jazeera Media Network under cyber attack on all systems, websites & social media platforms,” it said on Twitter. The attack was also confirmed by a … Read more
New album this month, new single out now, and new music videos on the way. Safe to say DJ Khaled will be everywhere this summer. The Snapchat King is now taking his talents to television, as the Dade County mogul stars in the latest Spider-Man: Homecoming commercial. Aired during Game 3 of the NBA Finals … Read more
Qatari planes are to be banned from Egyptian and Saudi air space, as a growing diplomatic row in the Gulf threatens large-scale air disruption. Several countries have cut ties with the tiny Gulf state over accusations of supporting extremism in the region. Air, land and sea links have been halted to the country from Saudi … Read more
NBC News has finalised its deal to take a 25 percent stake in Euronews as it seeks to compete on a more global scale, the European broadcaster said on Wednesday. NBC will pay 25 million euros ($28.1 million) for the stake and its familiar “peacock tail” will feature in the logo of the newly renamed … Read more
President Donald Trump’s administration is poised to announce its withdrawal from the Paris climate deal, US media reported on Wednesday. According to the political news site Axios, the first to break the news citing two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, Trump has reached a decision to pull out of the landmark emissions-cutting deal. … Read more
Former President John Mahama’s Advisor on Governance and Corruption, Mr Daniel Batidam, has said he will be happy to see the Akufo-Addo government prosecute and jail former officials of the Mahama administration for corruption. The Executive Director at African Parliamentarians’ Network Against Corruption (APNAC) told Moro Awudu on Class91.3FM’s Executive Breakfast Show on Friday, 26 … Read more
Hollywood star John Travolta has donated his “beloved” Boeing 707 plane to an Australian aviation museum and is aiming to be part of the crew to deliver the vintage aircraft. Made for Qantas Airways in 1964, the “Saturday Night Fever” heartthrob and qualified pilot acquired the jet when Australia’s national carrier retired it more than … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek to repair India’s drifting partnership with Russia when he meets President Vladimir Putin this week, amid wariness over Moscow’s renewed interest in New Delhi’s backyard, analysts say. The two leaders will look to stem a decline in trade between the once robust economic partners and resolve tensions over their … Read more