CES gadget show | Faraday reveals sleek, sporty concept car in Vegas

The automotive future according to a new electric car maker looks an awful lot like a Corvette crossed with the Batmobile. California-based Faraday Future debuted its sleek electric concept racecar yesterday

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CHINA Fears escalate that the global economy could struggle more than expected this year — a prospect that contributed to a plunge in financial markets. The anxiety was heightened by

USA | Obama thrusts gun control debate into forefront of 2016 race

President Barack Obama is making good on his pledge to politicize gun violence. The package of gun-control executive actions Obama formally announced yesterday has pushed the contentious issue to the forefront

USA | Defense in Chinatown trial calls prosecution’s case flimsy

A defense attorney for a man charged with murder and racketeering in a Chinatown organized crime investigation told jurors that prosecutors had not proven their allegations and that a conviction

This Day in History | 1994 Mystery assailant attacks top US skater

The 24-year-old skater was forced to withdraw from the US national championships in Detroit after the incident, which left her with severe bruising to her right knee. The competition was expected

Offbeat | Kyrgyzstan to deport Briton who ‘insulted country’

Kyrgyzstan’s Interior Ministry says a British citizen who made rude remarks about the country on social media is to be deported within a day. The statement this week on the ministry’s

The Buzz | Charleston a focus of 40th season of Spoleto Festival USA

Historic Charleston is a large focus of next spring’s 40th edition of the Spoleto Festival USA, from glimpses of the city in the iconic opera “Porgy and Bess” to the

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CHINA Rescuers have dropped provisions to four Chinese mine workers trapped for 10 days in a wrecked gypsum mine and are slowly drilling a route to save them, state media

AP EXCLUSIVE | USA | Pentagon: Hundreds of military kids sexually abused annually

  The children of U.S. military members are victims in hundreds of incidents of sexual abuse each year, according to data the Defense Department provided exclusively to The Associated Press. The abuse

Spain | Catalan secessionist parties to discuss way forward

Catalonia’s two main pro-independence parties will meet today (Macau time) to discuss how to salvage their drive to secede from Spain after a key far-left party refused to back the

Romania | Lawmakers draft law to punish aggressive driving

Romanian lawmakers have proposed legislation to punish aggressive drivers, addressing public concerns about the number of horn- honking, shouting and light-flashing motorists on the roads. Some 40 lawmakers from various parties have

This Day in History | 1952 Churchill renews ‘special relationship’

He arrived in New York on board the liner Queen Mary earlier today and was welcomed by Mayor Impelliterri before being taken to Long Island for a flight to Washington. Mr

Offbeat | The perfect match: Girlfriend to give boyfriend a kidney

A New Hampshire man found his perfect match in more ways than one when he first met his girlfriend on a golf course last summer. Forty-nine-year-old Jack Simard of Manchester is

The Buzz | Tourists die in swimming accidents at Thai island

Two foreign tourists, from China and Australia, died on Saturday in separate swimming accidents at the southern Thai resort island of Koh Samui, police said. Police Lt. Col. Apichart Jansamret said the two

World Briefs

HONG KONG will likely need to raise taxes and introduce new levies as an aging population is increasing public expenditure. “Facing a fiscal gap brought by an aging population, raising

Iran, Saudi step up war of words over executed Shiite cleric

Iran’s top leader yesterday warned Saudi Arabia of “divine revenge” over the execution of an opposition Shiite cleric while Riyadh accused Tehran of supporting terrorism, escalating a war of words

Science | ‘Millennium physicist’ ready to take helm at nuclear center

Fabiola Gianotti, who last week took the helm at CERN, home to world’s largest particle accelerator, is seen as a new breed of scientist. Initially trained in arts and literature,

This Day in History | 1951 Communist forces to re-take Seoul

The authorities have ordered the evacuation of Seoul and thousands of people have started streaming south out of the city and across the Han river. Over the past few weeks, many

California condor that helped save species returns to wild

Banking into the wind and then gliding out of sight, a male California condor flew back into the wild after a captive breeding program that helped save North America’s largest

Nature | African Penguins face threat from pet dogs

More than 40 penguins were killed this year by one or more dogs and authorities recently increased patrols in a penguin nesting area where people often take their dogs for

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