Tycoon Ong Beng Seng pleads guilty in corruption case
A Singapore-based billionaire hotelier has pleaded guilty to a charge connected to a rare corruption scandal that shocked the country last year. Ong Beng Seng has admitted to abetting the…
Twin waterspouts merge near Italian coastline
Strong gusts of wind helped two huge waterspouts merge just off Italy’s Delta del Po, on the country’s east coast. A local tour boat operator paused an excursion so he…
People in Sudan’s besieged city face starvation, UN warns
The UN’s main food agency has warned that families trapped within the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher face starvation. The World Food Programme (WFP) said it had not been able…
Boeing defence workers set to strike in new blow to aviation giant
More than three thousand Boeing defence workers are set to go on strike on Monday, in a fresh blow to the embattled aviation giant. It comes after union members at…
49ers’ linebacker corps ramps up for opener vs. Broncos, Dre Greenlaw
SANTA CLARA — Linebackers coach Johnny Holland chuckled when asked about the 49ers’ incoming visitors for this week’s opening of the preseason. It just so happens the Denver Broncos are…
BBC Africa Eye’s secret filming exposes the ‘madams’ of Maai Mahiu
Njeri Mwangi BBC Africa Eye in Maai Mahiu Tamasin Ford BBC Africa Eye BBC Nyambura (left) and Cheptoo (right) told undercover investigators how they exposed children to prostitution in Maai…
Car fire on I-580 sparks vegetation fire – The Mercury News
A burning car on Interstate 580 in Castro Valley sparked a vegetation fire on Sunday evening, officials said. The far right two lanes heading westbound near Eden Canyon Road were…
more than 50 dead as vessel capsizes
More than 50 migrants died when a boat carrying around 150 people sank off the coast of Yemen in bad weather on Sunday. The vessel capsized off Yemen’s southern province…
Valkyries end road trip with lopsided loss to A’ja Wilson-led Aces
For the last three road games, the shorthanded Valkyries found a way to pull out wins on their tenacity and execution. But against a team as star-studded as the Las…
Mission under way to save ‘world’s most beautiful’ snails
Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Bernardo Reyes-Tur A Polymita snail in its native forest habitat in Eastern Cuba Researchers have embarked on a mission to save what some consider…