Apple's iPod Touch update brings faster chip, better cameras
NEW YORK (AP) — Apple is refreshing its iPod Touch music player for the first time in nearly three years, as the company seeks to make music a central part of its devices once again.
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ESPYs to honor former college basketball player Lauren Hill
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lauren Hill will be honored at the ESPY Awards.
American rapper Kanye West to headline closing ceremony
TORONTO (AP) — American rapper Kanye West will highlight the closing ceremony of the Pan Am Games on July 26.
London's Royal Academy crowdfunds Ai Weiwei installation
The Royal Academy of Arts in London launched a crowdfunding appeal on Wednesday for an installation by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei that would see its courtyard filled with giant reconstructed trees. The world-famous gallery hopes to raise £100,000 (142,000 euros, $156,000) on Kickstarter to display eight trees that Ai has assembled from parts of dead trees collected in the mountains of southern China. It is thought to be the
Armed men ransack Chris Brown's home, lock aunt in closet
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three armed men in masks forced their way into a Los Angeles home owned by Chris Brown, locked the R&B singer’s aunt in a closet and then ransacked the place for valuables, police said.
Jane Krakowski joins Broadway cast of 'She Loves Me' revival
NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Award-winner and “30 Rock” star Jane Krakowski has jumped aboard the upcoming Broadway revival of “She Loves Me.”
Reluctant Tsipras fights to pass reforms in Greek parliament
By Costas Pitas and Lefteris Karagiannopoulos ATHENS (Reuters) – Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras battled to win lawmakers’ approval on Wednesday for a bailout deal to keep Greece in the euro, while the country’s creditors, pressed by the IMF to provide massive debt relief, struggled to agree on a financial lifeline. Having reluctantly conceded to negotiating a third bailout from international lenders on stringent terms, Tsipras must face down a rebellion
Mexico shows security footage of Guzman moments before he disappeared into tunnel
Mexico’s government on Tuesday broadcast security camera footage of fugitive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in the final moments before he escaped from a maximum security prison through a tunnel in his cell on Saturday night. National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido showed a grainy video of a dressed Guzman pacing the room, looking behind the partition wall by his shower, sitting on his bed, then crouching again behind
Syrian army, Hezbollah advance in city near Lebanese border
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian army backed by Lebanese ally Hezbollah has advanced deeper into the besieged Syrian city of Zabadani two weeks into a campaign to capture it from insurgents, rebels and the army said. The control of the city, about 45 km (30 miles) northwest of the capital Damascus, is seen as crucial to consolidate government-held areas linking Lebanon and Syria. Zabadani is a former
Bahrain hits back at U.S. human rights criticism
Bahrain hit back at U.S. expressions of concern over the Gulf Arab kingdom’s treatment of opposition figures on Wednesday, saying all its actions followed due legal process. The State Department on Tuesday said the arrest of Ibrahim Sharif, prosecution of Majeed Milad and reports that a case against Ali Salman, head of Bahrain’s main opposition group, had been reopened, “raise serious concerns about restrictions on freedom of expression”.