SANTA CATARINA PINULA, Guatemala (AP) — Rescue workers using shovels and pickaxes recovered more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed hillside on the outskirts of Guatemala City on Saturday as an official said the death toll had risen to 69 with another 350 people believed missing.
I am about to speak freely of guns, because I can. When I do, many of you will no doubt be inclined to mutter “amen,” quietly to yourselves. Others of you will no doubt feel compelled to throw up all over me, as you have done under similar circumstances before. I expect to hear preferentially from the latter group, because they seem perennially…
By Mirwais Harooni and Andrew MacAskill KABUL (Reuters) – Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres denied that Taliban fighters were firing from its hospital at Afghan and NATO forces before a suspected U.S. air strike killed at least 19 people in a battle to oust the Islamist insurgents from an Afghan city. Fighting raged around the northern provincial capital of Kunduz for a seventh day as government forces backed by
The United States and Australia have reached a compromise on the length of monopoly protection allowed for new biotech drugs in a development that could clear the way for a sweeping Pacific Rim trade deal, Japanese media reported on Sunday. The amount of time allowed for pharmaceutical companies to have exclusive rights to the clinical data for biological drugs has been the last major sticking point in the Trans-Pacific Partnership
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan said it expects to complete a preliminary multi-national investigation in days to determine whether an air strike it conducted hit a hospital and killed at least 19 people. The results of that investigation should be known in a “matter of days,” NATO said in a statement. (Reporting By Andrew MacAskill; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
There are so many negative stereotypes related to getting older — “the middle-age sag,” or being “over the hill.” It’s easy to buy into the myth that everything really is headed downhill.But according to studies and science, things really aren’t as bad as they might seem. Here are five ways your body actually improves with age:1. You might…
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has vowed to stay at the club for as long as he is asked following his side’s 1-1 draw in the Merseyside derby.
New World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea clinched a fifth double of the year in wet conditions at Magny-Cours.
Argentina all but secured their place in the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals as they subdued Tonga’s physicality and flair to claim a 45-16 bonus-point victory in Leicester.
Vincenzo Nibali claimed the biggest one-day win of his career at the Monument classic Il Lombardia on Sunday thanks to a superb piece of descending off the penultimate climb.
