Spelling Bee aces buzz through early rounds; some stung by stumpers
The Scripps National Spelling Bee got underway on Tuesday with most young spelling aces breezing through tricky words like “kentledge” but a few striking out...
Procrastinating genius: did da Vinci have attention disorder?
Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci’s litany of exquisite but unfinished work shows he probably had an attention disorder common to modern society, according to one...
Sports Illustrated sold for $110 million
Media company Meredith Corp said on Monday it has agreed to sell Sports Illustrated to U.S-based entertainment company Authentic Brands Group LLC for $110 million,...
MacKenzie Bezos pledges half her fortune to charity
MacKenzie Bezos, the former wife of Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, pledged on Tuesday to give half her $36 billion fortune to charity, following...
France to ban widely used crop fungicide over health concerns
France’s health and safety regulator has decided to ban a widely used crop fungicide after classifying it as a so-called endocrine disruptor posing risks for...
Brazil’s Vale says risk of dam break at Gongo Soco mine has diminished
An unstable embankment at Vale SA’s Gongo Soco mining pit in Brazil has a lower risk than previously thought of collapsing in a way that...
US Removing Eritrea from Counterterror Non-Cooperation List – VOA News
US Removing Eritrea from Counterterror Non-Cooperation List VOA News Eritrea is being removed from the United States government’s list of countries deemed not to be cooperating...
Sugar Ray Leonard says boxing not dead, Duran not so sure
In a joint interview to promote the Panamanian’s career called “I Am Duran,” the former enemies traded barbs and laugh about the state of the...
MoFA launches investigation into Map incident – The Reporter Ethiopia
MoFA launches investigation into Map incident The Reporter Ethiopia Backlash as Ethiopian map of Africa wipes off Somalia, merges Congos Africanews English Ethiopia apologises for map that...
Rocker Hallyday’s estate to be shared under French, not U.S., law
French rock singer Johnny Hallyday’s estate must be shared under French law, a Paris court ruled on Tuesday, overriding a will written in California that...