Isabel Toledo, the acclaimed fashion designer best known for creating the dress worn by Michelle Obama at her husband’s presidential inauguration in 2009, has died aged 59. Toledo’s fashion defied catwalk trends, embracing diversity and difference. “I’m not a fashion person,” Toledo told CNN in 2012, instead calling herself an “engineer”. Her husband and professional […]
In a move that could cause founder Colonel Sanders to spin in his grave, KFC is to trial meatless “chicken” products. The fast food chain is offering vegan “chicken” nuggets and wings made from plants at an outlet in Atlanta today. The company has teamed up with vegan food maker Beyond Meat to take advantage […]
After months in detention, China has formally arrested two Canadians accused of espionage. Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were taken into custody last December, shortly after Canada arrested Huawei chief Meng Wanzhou on behalf of the US. They have been accused of harming national security, but were not formally arrested until Thursday. Their official arrest […]
DAYTON, OHIO (Reuters) – Two children were killed and at least 10 people injured, including other children, on Monday (Aug 26) in a multi-vehicle crash involving a stolen police car in Dayton, Ohio, police said. The incident started with a reported stabbing in Dayton, police said, and a pickup truck crash in the Dayton suburb […]
US president pledges to provide resources to law enforcement agencies to ‘disrupt hate crimes and domestic terrorism’. President Donald Trump says the United States must “condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy” after a mass shooting in the state of Texas that authorities said appeared to be a racially motivated hate crime. A gunman on Saturday killed 20 people […]
French President Emmanuel Macron paved the way at the G7 summit for a diplomatic solution to the standoff between Washington and Tehran over the 2015 nuclear deal. Mr Macron said that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had told him he was open to a meeting with US President Donald Trump. Mr Trump told a news conference […]
Several Alberta agencies are reminding people of the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act, which provides some legal protection for people who call 911 after witnessing an overdose. Between January 2016 and December 2018, there were 1,971 opioid-related overdose deaths in the province, according to officials. In some cases, the Alberta RCMP said family, friends or […]
PITTSBURGH (REUTERS) – US prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Robert Bowers, the man accused of bursting into a Pittsburgh synagogue last year with a semi-automatic rifle and shooting 11 people to death, according to court papers filed on Monday (Aug 26). Bowers, 46, shouted “all Jews must die” as he fired on congregants […]
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] In an era of rampant cybercrime, the jewelry heist that took place in the diamond district in Manhattan on Sunday was decidedly old-school. At about noon, three armed men apparently wearing disguises walked into a jewelry store, hogtied employees […]
RIO DE JANEIRO — Seeing the global panic over thousands of forest fires in the Amazon last week, and hearing the calls to boycott Brazilian products, Agamenon da Silva Menezes wondered if the world had gone mad. Mr. da Silva is a farmers’ union leader in Novo Progresso, a community in a heavily deforested state […]