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Paul Walker’s brothers open to ‘Fast’ franchise return
Published On: August 16, 2018 01:03 PM NPT By: Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, Aug 16: Nearly five years after Paul Walker’s death, his brothers say they’re open to playing his character again in the “Fast and Furious” franchise.
70 years after Babe Ruth’s death, fans still flock to grave
Published On: August 16, 2018 10:53 AM NPT By: Associated Press
HAWTHORNE, N.Y., Aug 156: Amid the serene graves at Gate of Heaven Cemetery sits the one where visitors leave baseballs and bats instead of bouquets, tributes to a baseball superstar who still outshines others seven decades after his death.
Death toll hits 39 in Italy bridge collapse; blame begins
Published On: August 15, 2018 05:03 PM NPT By: Associated Press
GENOA, Aug 15: Italian emergency workers pulled two more bodies out of tons of broken concrete and twisted steel Wednesday after a highway bridge collapsed in Genoa, raising the death toll in the disaster to at least 39 people.
Pennsylvania priests abused over 1,000 children: Report
Published On: August 15, 2018 03:03 PM NPT By: Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Aug 15: A priest raped a 7-year-old girl while he was visiting her in the hospital after she’d had her tonsils removed. Another priest forced a 9-year-old boy into having oral sex, then rinsed out the boy’s mouth with holy water. One boy was forced to say confession to the priest who sexually abused him.
Afghan officials: Taliban attack kills 30 troops
Published On: August 15, 2018 02:46 PM NPT By: Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug 15: Afghan officials say a Taliban assault on two adjacent checkpoints in the northern Baghlan province has killed 30 soldiers and police.
Turkey increases tariffs on some US imports, escalating feud
Published On: August 15, 2018 10:26 AM NPT By: Associated Press
TURKEY, Aug 15: Turkey announced Wednesday it is increasing tariffs on imports of certain U.S. products, escalating a feud with the United States that has helped trigger a currency crisis.
Cars plunge as highway bridge collapses in Italy; 22 dead
Published On: August 14, 2018 07:12 PM NPT By: Associated Press
MILAN, Aug 14: A bridge on the main highway linking Italy with France collapsed Tuesday in the Italian port city of Genoa during a sudden, violent storm, sending vehicles plunging 90 meters into a heap of rubble below.
Crash outside parliament in London treated as terrorism
Published On: August 14, 2018 04:47 PM NPT By: Associated Press
LONDON, Aug 14: A car crashed into pedestrians and cyclists near the Houses of Parliament in London Tuesday and police arrested a man on suspicion of terrorism, heightening tensions in a city that has seen string-of vehicle-based terror attacks.
Taliban overrun Afghan army base, kill 17 troops
Published On: August 14, 2018 02:14 PM NPT By: Associated Press
AFGHANISTAN, Aug 14: The Taliban overran a base in northern Afghanistan, killing 17 soldiers, even as Afghan forces battled the insurgents for the fifth straight day in the eastern provincial capital of Ghazni on Tuesday, trying to flush them out of the city's outskirts, officials said.
Soprano Gasdia reboots troubled Verona Arena opera festival
Published On: August 13, 2018 12:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press
VERONA, Aug 13: The colossal Roman-era Verona Arena amphitheater remains an imposing presence in the northern Italian city’s main piazza, but its place in the opera world has waned in recent years.
Will Idris Elba be first black James Bond?
Published On: August 13, 2018 10:47 AM NPT By: Associated Press
LONDON, Aug 13: British actor Idris Elba is stoking speculation he may take over the role of James Bond when Daniel Craig steps aside, offering an enigmatic Twitter post that fueled the buzz about him becoming the first black Bond. James BondLONDON, Aug 13: British actor Idris Elba is stoking speculation he may take over the role of James Bond when Daniel Craig steps aside, offering an enigmatic Twitter post that fueled the buzz about him becoming the first black Bond.
Music festival to honor Charles Neville
Published On: August 12, 2018 02:30 PM NPT By: Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Aug 12: Charles Neville, the legendary saxophone player for the Neville Brothers, is being honored by an annual music festival in Massachusetts.
Justin Timberlake book coming in October
Published On: August 12, 2018 12:30 PM NPT By: Associated Press
NEW YORK, Aug 12: Justin Timberlake is looking back.
Millions in limbo as nativist anger roils Indian state
Published On: August 12, 2018 10:30 AM NPT By: Associated Press
INDIA, Aug 12: The rice farmer doesn't know how it happened. Abdul Mannan just knows a mistake was made somewhere. But what can you say when the authorities suddenly insist one of your five children isn't an Indian? What do you do when your wife and daughter-in-law are suddenly viewed as illegal immigrants?
Plane stolen by ‘suicidal’ employee crashes near Seattle
Published On: August 11, 2018 02:34 PM NPT By: Associated Press
SEATAC, Aug 11: A “suicidal” airline employee stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane, took off from Sea-Tac International Airport and was chased by military jets before crashing into a small island in the Puget Sound on Friday night, officials said.
Omarosa in new book: I saw Trump’s racism ‘with my own eyes’
Published On: August 11, 2018 12:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press
BRIDGEWATER, Aug 11: Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman claims in a new book that there are tapes of President Donald Trump using racial slurs and that she saw him behaving “like a dog off the leash” at numerous events he attended without his wife, first lady Melania Trump.
Crews battle growing wildfire near homes in California
Published On: August 11, 2018 09:39 AM NPT By: Associated Press
LAKE ELSINORE, Aug 11: Firefighters fought to spare homes Friday from a growing Southern California forest fire, a day after flames came perilously close to neighborhoods and destroyed one house. w
Taliban try to take Afghan city, kill at least 14
Published On: August 10, 2018 01:32 PM NPT By: Associated Press
KABUL, Aug 10: Taliban fighters tried to overrun a provincial capital in Afghanistan early on Friday, hiding inside homes before slipping into city streets in the night to attack security forces and killing at least 14 policemen before being pushed back, officials said.
With new category, Oscars are now a popularity contest
Published On: August 10, 2018 12:42 PM NPT By: Associated Press
NEW YORK, Aug 10: Not since Faye Dunaway shouted “La La Land!” has an Oscar announcement caused quite as much chaos as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decision to create a new Academy Awards category for “outstanding achievement in popular film.”
Third strong earthquake shakes Lombok as death toll tops 300
Published On: August 9, 2018 03:18 PM NPT By: Associated Press
TANJUNG, Aug 9: The Indonesian island of Lombok was shaken by a third big earthquake in little more than a week Thursday as an official said the death toll from an earlier quake had topped 330.
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