Posts From King World News

August 15, 2015 AUTOS

Officially a Thing: 2016 Lamborghini Aventador LP750-4 SuperVeloce Roadster

– For as unsurprising as it was to see Lamborghini debut the all-new Aventador Superveloce roadster on the immaculate green lawns of the Quail Lodge at Pebble Beach weekend (rich people + money + easy production decision = expensive roadster, plus it was already confirmed), one aspect of the car did spark some surprise. This is the first topless Superveloce model the company has ever produced, and Lamborghini has been building Superveloces for

August 15, 2015 AUTOS

Monterey Auctions Day 1: Top 10 Includes Pope John Paul II’s Enzo

– To some folks, Monterey Car Week hasn’t begun until the first irreplaceable automobile hammers sold for eight figures on one of the numerous auction blocks scattered across the peninsula. To them we say, “Monterey Car Week has officially begun.” As usual, RM Sotheby’s headlined the first big day of Monterey sales, and it was the only auction house of the four active yesterday to sell a car for more than $200,000,

August 15, 2015 HEALTH (MSM)

Death toll from China blasts rises to 104, Xi urges changes

By Megha Rajagopalan TIANJIN, China (Reuters) – The death toll from two massive explosions that tore through an industrial area in the northeastern Chinese port of Tianjin has risen to 104, state media said on Saturday, as China’s president urged improvements in workplace safety. Chinese President Xi Jinping said authorities should learn the lessons paid for with blood in Wednesday warehouse blasts, according to the official Xinhua news agency. China

August 15, 2015 HEALTH (MSM)

Bird flu spreads to third location in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast said on Friday that H5N1 bird flu had spread to a third location in the country, in the latest in a series of outbreaks in West Africa. Farm owner Moussa Dicko said he had lost 27,000 chickens in the outbreak, including about 7,000 slaughtered by veterinary agents. Jonas Oulai, vice-director of animal health at the Ministry of Animals and Fisheries, told journalists that there was cause for concern

August 15, 2015 HEALTH (MSM)

Ghana's doctors extend strike in challenge to government

By Kwasi Kpodo ACCRA (Reuters) – Doctors in Ghana decided on Friday to strike for two more weeks, their union said, in a protest that is emptying hospitals and posing a stiff challenge to the government of President John Mahama. Doctors are refusing to see out-patients or admit new in-patients, despite pressure from government, religious and cultural leaders to go back to work. The strike extension came as a surprise

August 15, 2015 HEALTH (MSM)

Roadside bombs, insecurity cuts off neediest in Mali – aid groups

By Monica MacSwan LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Roadside bombs and continued insecurity in Mali are preventing relief groups from providing food and medicine to the most vulnerable communities, aid groups said on Friday. Conflict in Mali erupted in 2012, when a loose coalition of separatist rebels and al Qaeda-linked militants swept across the north of the country before a French-led military intervention in 2013 drove them from the main

August 15, 2015 HEALTH (MSM)

Sierra Leone lifts last major Ebola quarantine as cases recede

By Umaru Fofana MASSESSEBEH, Sierra Leone (Reuters) – Sierra Leone lifted its last major Ebola quarantine on Friday as President Ernest Bai Koroma expressed confidence that the country would soon be free of the virus. The more than 500 residents of the northern village of Massessebeh gathered in the streets, singing and waving palm branches, after Koroma cut a piece of tape used as a cordon. “I am sure within