PEDERNALES, Ecuador (AP) — Rescuers pulled survivors from rubble Sunday after the strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast. Officials said the quake had killed at least 238 people and injured more than 1,500...Vice President Jorge Glas reported the death toll at a somber news conference, while PresidentRafael Correa flew back from Rome to deal with the crisis ... ___ ... ....
Prince William and his wife Kate went Saturday to the Taj Mahal in Agra. This final stage of their one week journey in India and Bhutan rekindles remembrances for the royal couple ... – WN.com, Ayite C. d'ALMEIDA. ....
photo: NASA / ESA, CXC, NRAO/AUI/NSF, STScI, and R. van Weeren (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz (STScI), and the HFF team
Stephen Hawking and his billionaire friends at Breakthrough gave us a glimpse into the development of a proposed exploration method this week involving nanotech spaceships, but when asked about actually finding alien life, the famed theoretical physicist admitted that he didn’t think it would be anytime soon ... (Note. The window to mission completion from announcement date is roughly 40 years.) ... [Image via Wikimedia Commons]....
It appears Netflix has dropped a tech-bomb on millions of Canadians who use VPNs to stream its U.S. service — rescuing Mary Ann Turcke’s daughter, and many of the rest of us, from a life of crime. Turcke is the Bell Media president who last year publicly snitched on her 15-year-old daughter for using a virtual private network (VPN) to access U.S. Netflix for movies and TV shows not available on Canadian Netflix....
Sahni, who is a second term RS member, reiterated his stand that he was innocent and had actually been implicated by those whom he had exposed in the LTC scam....
Pro-Trump Twitter users such as @TRUMP_PREZ repeated the lie on Sunday (see featured photo), with unsuspecting Trump supporters taking the bait, re-tweeting the bogus story and sharing it throughout social media ... Hopefully, Trump supporters will see through these lies and call out those who are deliberately attempting to deceive them with fake propaganda....
A University of California, Berkeley student and onetime Iraqi refugee says he was unfairly removed from a flight in Los Angeles this month because another passenger was alarmed by an innocent conversation he was having in Arabic... ....
Dog smuggling charges against Johnny Deep's wife Amber Heard have been dropped after she admitted lying on her arrival card in Australia last year ... ....
More than a third of people with Parkinson's disease feel the need to hide their symptoms or lie about having the condition, a survey by Parkinson's UK suggests ... ....
Guwahati... The girl, in her FIR, alleged that Choudhury had gone back on his promise to marry her and ended up sexually exploiting her ... "Choudhury, though married, allegedly lied to the victim, saying he would marry her after divorcing his wife," sources claimed ... ....
Lawyers for an Oklahoma reserve sheriff’s deputy who killed an unarmed suspect lying face-down on the ground and being restrained are expected to argue that the victim’s drug use and health could have contributed to his death ... ....
Patrik Berglund’s innocent 42-foot shot from inside the blue line deflected off defenseman Michal Rozsival, bounced off the ice and over Crawford’s left shoulder for the tying goal and marked the beginning of the end as the Blues rallied for a 3-2 victory in Game 3 of their first-round series at the United Center. “Stuff happens in games in the playoffs,” Crawford said ... But we were in control of that game. That’s a tough one ... ....
More than a third of people in the UK with Parkinson's disease feel the need to hide their symptoms or lie about having the condition, a survey for a charity suggests. They feel the symptoms are not socially acceptable and may embarrass those close to them, Parkinson's UK said ... The disease affects 127,000 people in the UK - about one in 500 people ... He added ... ....