Portugal’s prime minister is pointing to Greece’s troubles as he seeks to persuade voters to re-elect his center-right coalition government and reject anti-austerity proposals from the main opposition Socialist Party. With
The upgraded operating system will allow users to switch seamlessly between personal computers, tablets, smartphones and other gadgets. Windows 10 is intended to give apps a similar feel on all
A blast rocked central Cairo on Saturday, destroyed parts of the Italian consulate, said Gamal Halawa, deputy head of Cairo’s Civil Defense. The blast was caused by a car bomb,
Italian authorities have seized 1.6 billion euros (USD1.76 billion) in wealth from Sicilian construction company officials with alleged ties to Mafia crime families in Corleone, a longtime Cosa Nostra stronghold. Carabinieri police
A 15-year-old student visiting Boston’s Museum of Science has uncovered a math error in the golden ratio at a 34-year-old exhibit. Virginia resident Joseph Rosenfeld was visiting the museum on a
The indoor high-tech traveling theme park “The Marvel Experience” has stumbled and will cut short its summer tour. Producers of the show that includes 360-degree projections, holograms and a 4-D motion
A 5-year-old Florida girl riding in a boat has died after a sturgeon leaped from the Suwannee River and struck her. Wildlife officials said Jaylon Rippy died after being struck
A French appeals court ruled yesterday that a German product-testing company does not have to compensate more than 3,000 women with leak-prone breast implants — and now women who sued
Saudi Arabia’s billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world’s richest people, has announced he will donate all of his wealth to charity over the coming years. The Saudi
The president of Catania has admitted to fixing five Serie B matches aimed at preventing the Sicilian club from relegation to the third division. Antonino Pulvirenti also claimed to have
Spain and Portugal both issued weather alerts yesterday, advising residents to take extra care as temperatures soared above 40 C in some southern areas. The Iberian Peninsula was sweltering in
H3N2 influenza has broken out in Macau Prison with at least 83 inmates being infected within the past two weeks. According to the prison authorities, the infection broke out on
A man in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province has been arrested after he accidentally played porn movies on an outdoor screen, local police said yesterday. The man, surnamed Meng, randomly opened
Hungary’s foreign minister says the government has decided to build a temporary fence on the border with Serbia as fast as possible to stop the flow of illegal migrants. Peter
Facebook is now bigger than Wal-Mart, at least when it comes to its value on the stock market. The world’s biggest online social network knocked the world’s largest retailer out
Sixty-six surfers have set a world record for most people riding a board at once. Surf champions and local heroes were among those who hung loose on a custom built, 42-foot
Facing a cash crisis, Puerto Rico is turning to desperate measures to pay the bills: It’s delaying tax refunds, borrowing from its insurance company and may even legalize the black-market
Online U.S. retail giant Amazon says it is developing the technology to use drones to deliver packages in 30 minutes or less, a broad expansion of unmanned flight that is
China UnionPay Co. acquired a stake in Hong Kong’s Joint Electronic Teller Services Ltd. as the bank-card payments processor seeks a greater presence outside the mainland. UnionPay has become a
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is putting the finishing touches on his expected presidential campaign rollout, and took to Twitter yesterday to release a “Jeb! 2016” graphic in patriotic red
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