This Day in History | 1958 High Wycombe weighs new mayor

The annual custom dates back to medieval times and is unique to this Buckinghamshire market town. Weight is no longer an election issue, but for custom’s sake the new mayor, Councillor

Offbeat | A Finn idea: In Helsinki, a Burger King with a sauna

Finland’s Parliament has one. Nokia has one. And now a Burger King restaurant in downtown Helsinki has its own sauna. Hanne-Mari Ahonen, brand manager for Burger King in Finland, this week

The Latest: Egyptian officials say EgyptAir plane crashed, 66 on board

CAIRO (AP) — The latest news on EgyptAir Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo, carrying 66 people, which disappeared early today (Thursday). (All times are Egyptian.)   8:30 a.m. Egyptian aviation officials say an EgyptAir flight from Paris

The Buzz | NBA China to open basketball-themed Playzone in Shanghai

The NBA is opening a basketball-themed entertainment center in China in another effort to connect with fans where it enjoys huge popularity. The league says that NBA China will open the

World Briefs

CHINA Garbage picker Zhao Shunli’s transformation takes place several times a week in a simple bedroom filled with Mao Zedong memorabilia, its concrete walls lined with posters portraying the founder

High winds delay dozens of climbers ascending Mount Everest

High winds have delayed dozens of climbers trying to reach the summit of Mount Everest, a mountaineering official said yesterday. The winds have made it difficult for the climbers to make

‘Unique Pink’ diamond fetches USD28 million at Geneva auction

Sotheby’s said the hammer price, which excludes fees, came in at the low end of the expected pre-auction range of $28 million-$38 million. Including fees, the total price was 30.8

UK | Sugar tax, spaceports meet pageantry in Queen’s Speech

Queen Elizabeth II donned an ermine-trimmed robe and diamond-studded crown  yesterday to announce government promises to put Britain at the cutting edge of technology and social progress in the 21st

USA Elections | Clinton discloses millions in book royalties, speaking fees

Hillary Clinton has filed financial documents showing that in 2015 she earned more than USD5 million in royalties from her book “Hard Choices” and about $1.5 million in speaking fees

This Day in History | 2004 Angry dads hit Blair with purple flour

The PM was speaking at the despatch box during his weekly question and answer session soon after midday when father-of-two Ron Davies threw two missiles from the front of the

Offbeat | Texas woman sells ‘housebroken’ bison she let wander inside

Bullet the bison was transported this weekend from Karen Schoeve’s home in Argyle to her new home, which she will share with two cows, 15 miles away in Flower Mound. Schoeve

The Buzz | Thirty-one caught in retests of 2008 Beijing Olympic samples

In a major doping crackdown stretching back eight years, 31 athletes in six sports could be barred from competing in this year’s Olympics after they were caught in retesting of

World Briefs

CHINA’s official media reaffirmed the Communist Party’s longstanding judgment that the Cultural Revolution was a catastrophic mistake. MYANMAR The Obama administration lifted sanctions against 10 state-run Myanmar companies and banks yesterday

Libya plea for arms to fight Islamic State backed by U.S.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry backed providing weapons to Libya’s unity government to assist in the fight against Islamic State and other jihadist groups, a move endorsed at a

USA | New USD60m project to fight for First Amendment

The First Amendment is getting a new champion, with some deep pockets. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Columbia University yesterday announced the launch of a USD60 million project,

IRAQ | Bombs hit Baghdad Shiite areas, killing 69

A wave of bombings struck outdoor markets and a restaurant in Shiite-dominated neighborhoods of Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 69 people, officials said — the latest in deadly militant attacks

FILM | Jarmusch, Driver bewitch Cannes with poetic ‘Paterson’

Jim Jarmusch debuted his patient, bus driver-poet drama “Paterson” at the Cannes Film Festival where festival-goers responded enthusiastically to the film’s gentle and quirky rhythms. In the movie, Adam Driver plays a bus

This Day in History | 1944 Monte Cassino falls to the Allies

Polish troops entered the hill-top abbey this morning, six days after the latest attacks began on this strategic stronghold at the western end of the German defensive position known as

Offbeat | First US penis transplant could bring hope to maimed soldiers

A 64-year-old cancer patient has received the nation’s first penis transplant, a groundbreaking operation that may also help accident victims and some of the many U.S. veterans maimed by roadside

The Buzz | Colombia claims largest cocaine seizure in its history

Colombian authorities say they’ve made the biggest cocaine seizure in the history of a country long plagued by traffic in the drug. The National Police agency says 50 commandos backed by

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