USA | Obituary: Nancy Reagan remembered for her forceful, private style

Unlike other presidential wives, Nancy Reagan didn’t testify before Congress about health care, celebrate controversial Supreme Court decisions or sit in on Cabinet meetings. “She never emerged as a political player

International Women’s Day: Celebrities urge world leaders to fight for girls and women

  A number of high-profile entertainers — including Oprah Winfrey, Mary J. Blige, Charlize Theron and Meryl Streep have signed an open letter calling on world leaders to fight for gender

USA | Elections: Marco Rubio easily wins Republican primary in Puerto Rico

  Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida easily won Puerto Rico’s Republican presidential primary election yesterday , with supporters saying he would help lift the island out of its long economic slump. Returns

This Day in History | 1950 Gas turbine car gets road test

JET1, a two-seater model powered by the same kind of engine used in a jet, will have its first public test drive at the Silverstone racing circuit in Northamptonshire tomorrow. The

Offbeat | Dog pops up in driver’s seat when semi crashes in Minnesota

Customers at a Minnesota gas station saw a golden Labrador retriever appear to drive the semi across a road last week. Mankato police say the idling truck apparently was put into

The Buzz | Woman dies in elevator with power improperly cut off

The discovery of a woman’s corpse in an elevator in the Chinese city of Xi’an has led to the detention of an elevator maintenance crew who improperly cut off power

Musicians and media figures celebrate Murdoch-Hall wedding

Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall celebrated their marriage Saturday alongside family members, media executives and music stars in a church considered the spiritual home of British journalism. The media mogul groom

World Briefs

CHINA’s top economic planning official says it is impossible that the country’s economy would have a “hard landing” after a period of robust growth. PHILIPPINES The government says an American woman

Lula’s detention rattles Brazil as heat on Rousseff increases

  As soon as police raided the home of former Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and questioned him early Friday, red-shirted activists of his Workers’ Party took to the

Iraq | Suicide attack kills at least 47 south of Baghdad

A suicide bomber yesterday rammed his explosives-laden fuel truck into a security checkpoint south of Baghdad, killing at least 47 people and wounding dozens, officials said, the latest episode in

This Day in History | 1965 Police attack Alabama marchers

They assaulted a group of about 500 demonstrators using tear gas, whips and sticks after Governor George Wallace ordered the planned march from Selma to the state capital Montgomery to

Offbeat | Albania offers collectors its Communist-era airborne glory

The 40 obsolete Soviet and Chinese-made aircraft up for sale once roared over what was Europe’s most exclusive airspace. The Albanian pilots were members of an exalted military elite that

Americans split over safety of US drinking water

  When it comes to water, only about half of Americans are very confident in the safety of what’s flowing from their tap, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll, which found

Monotony and ‘moments of terror’ mark search for Flight 370

The shifts on board the ship are punishing: 12 hours on, 12 hours off, seven days a week, for a month straight — though pingpong and poker during the downtime

The Buzz | Amazon amplifies its Alexa line of voice-controlled devices

Amazon.com is introducing two devices designed to amplify the role its voice-controlled assistant Alexa plays in people’s homes and lives. The products unveiled yesterday are echoes of Amazon’s Echo, a cylinder-shaped

Bob Dylan archives to be housed in Tulsa, Oklahoma

The archives of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan have been acquired by the George Kaiser Family Foundation and the University of Tulsa, with plans for curated exhibitions from the trove to be

World Briefs

CHINA-RUSSIA  The Bank of China will give Gazprom a 2 billion euro (USD2.2 billion), five-year loan, the Russian state-run energy company’s largest loan agreement from a single credit institution. In

Vatican | Australian cardinal didn’t quickly act on pedophile claim

Australian Cardinal George Pell   A senior Vatican official told an Australian sex abuse inquiry yesterday that he did not immediately act when a boy raised abuse allegations against a cleric

Haiti | Cholera quietly still kills dozens a month

  A dozen people reclined on cots inside the clinic in the Haitian capital, a few so sick they were receiving intravenous infusions to rehydrate their bodies and spare them an

US airlines | Havana top destination for Cuban flights

  U.S. airlines are looking to serve Cuba primarily from their large hub cities, with Havana being the most popular destination. At least eight carriers submitted applications to the U.S. Department of

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