Parts of a US city have been evacuated after a train carrying explosive chemicals derailed and blew up – sending a fireball and thick plumes of smoke towering into the sky. The 47-carriage-long freight train came off the tracks in Sibley, Iowa, on Sunday, and prompted the mass evacuation of almost 100 residents who live […]
Bill Gates was investigated after being accused of having an affair with a Microsoft staff member for several years. The 65-year-old billionaire, who recently announced his divorce from wife Melinda after 27 years of marriage, was subjected to the probe last year after an engineer alleged in a letter that she had a sexual relationship […]
Prince Harry has come under fire from Americans for criticising the US Constitution’s First Amendment while admitting he doesn’t fully understand it. The Duke of Sussex made the comments while appearing on the Armchair Expert podcast with actor Dax Shepard. He joked: ‘I’ve got so much I want to say about the First Amendment as […]
About 80 people in a city in northwest Iowa were evacuated on Sunday afternoon after part of a Union Pacific train hauling hazardous materials derailed and then caught fire, officials said. The derailment of about 47 cars took place around 2 p.m. in Sibley, said Robynn Tysver, a spokeswoman for Union Pacific. By 3 p.m., […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Gasoline shortages that have plagued the US East Coast slowly eased on Sunday (May 16), with 1,000 more stations receiving supplies as the country’s largest fuel pipeline network recovered from a crippling cyberattack. The six-day closure of Colonial Pipeline’s 8,900km system was the most disruptive cyberattack on record, preventing millions of […]
SINGAPORE – Getting the world’s top emitters to set bolder climate targets had been a key consideration for the United States in deciding on the list of nations invited to take part in last month’s leaders summit on climate, a US official said last week . Getting a diversity of voices to the table – […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – As the value of bitcoin soars and concerns rise about the energy-intensive process needed to obtain it, cryptocurrency entrepreneurs in the United States believe they have found a solution in flared natural gas. Profitably creating, or mining, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies requires masses of computers dedicated to solving deliberately complicated equations – […]
RIO DE JANEIRO — Fretting over a fever in her toddler that wouldn’t break, the mother took the young girl, Letícia, to a hospital. Doctors had worrisome news: It was Covid-19. But they were reassuring, noting that children almost never develop serious symptoms, said the mother, Ariani Roque Marinheiro. Less than two weeks later, on […]
A man killed in a car crash may have had his Tesla on Autopilot while posting social media videos of himself, police have said. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the crash, which happened in Fontana, 50 miles east of Los Angeles. It is the 29th case the federal agency has investigated that […]
The C.D.C. said fully vaccinated people could safely go most places without a mask. Not everyone was sure, or ready. By Mitch Smith CHICAGO — For Americans whose bare faces had scarcely been seen in public for a year, there were suddenly options. Would they leave the mask behind for a jog? What about the […]