VW reports first annual loss since 1993
Emissions scandal pushes Europe’s largest carmaker into the red
Emissions scandal pushes Europe’s largest carmaker into the red
The attorney for two former hostages told CNN that her clients have identified Brussels bomber Najim Laachraoui as an ISIS jailer of foreign hostages in Syria. Laachraoui, 24, was one of two suicide bombers in the March 22 attacks at the Brussels Airport. Those attacks and another one the same day at a subway station in Brussels killed 32 people and wounded more than 300 others.The lawyer, Marie-laure Ingouf, said ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico's economic crisis has thrown the U.S. territory's upcoming Democratic primary into question.
The director of the island's Elections Commission says she's holding an emergency meeting on Friday because the financially strapped government has not released $3 million needed to print ballots and pay for vote-counting machines for the June 5 primary. The territory has been running out of money amid a 10-year economic crisis and it faces $70 billion in public debt the governor has said is unpayable and needs restructuring.
Tom Thibodeau will lead a roster that is oozing with young talent as he tries to transform the Minnesota Timberwolves, the NBA's longtime study in untapped potential.
Investors from Kuwait have been invited to take part in developing the Russian Far East and the free port of Vladivostok, Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East Alexander Galushka said Friday.
Een 16-jarig meisje is overleden na een gevecht in het toilet van een middelbare school in de Amerikaanse stad Wilmington. Het slachtoffer werd aangevallen door klasgenootjes en viel waarschijnlijk met haar hoofd op de wasbak.
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NEW YORK, April 22 (UPI) -- Kevin Spacey says he auditioned to play U.S. President Richard Nixon for Ron Howard's film "Frost/Nixon," but the role went to Frank Langella.
The US is apparently losing its military edge, but it has very little to do with money. Rather, it is the result of internal mismanagement and the solution should be in the reform of the Department of Defense, according to Daniel L. Davis, national security and foreign policy analyst.
Rookie d-man had two points in the last two games.
The Cannes Film Festival is planning a tribute to Prince, who was found dead on Thursday at the age of 57. A festival representative didn't...
Legend has it Prince recorded enough music to release one album a year for the rest of the century.Supposedly thousands of unreleased Prince songs exist in “the vault,” an actual walk-in safe complete with a combination lock built into its door. The vault is in the basement of Prince’s Paisley Park estate.About 70% of the music Prince produced was never released, according to an interview Prince collaborator Brent Fischer gave ...
Valeant's spike is justified if reports about the company's possible leadership change are true.
Rarely have two U.S. presidential front-runners needed more from running mates than Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The Democratic and Republican leaders in the 2016 White House race are unusually unpopular nationally, polls show, despite their success with voters in their respective parties. Clinton has struggled to generate excitement about her candidacy and assuage voter concerns about her trustworthiness, while Trump fares badly among women and minorities in polls.
Facebook has made changes to how its News Feed works by taking into account how long a person looks at an article. The world’s largest social network has tweaked its algorithm to ensure that users receive content they actually want to read and to reduce clutter popping up on News Feeds. The real motivation may be ad revenue, but it’s always pushed as more relevant content. Beta News reports: The most recent update to the feed algorithm will take into account not only which news articles people click on, but how long they spend reading them. Читать дальше...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A historian in northeastern Poland says the moss-covered ruins of a German World War II bunker may hide Russia's precious Amber Room, a national treasure that went missing during the war.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A historian in northeastern Poland says the moss-covered ruins of a German World War II bunker may hide Russia's precious Amber Room, a national treasure that went missing during the war.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A historian in northeastern Poland says the moss-covered ruins of a German World War II bunker may hide Russia's precious Amber Room, a national treasure that went missing during the war.
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JASENOVAC, Croatia - Croatian government has held a commemoration ceremony at the site of a notorious World War II death camp despite a boycott by the Jewish and Serb communities in protest over alleged inaction to curb the surge of neo-Nazi sentiment in the country.
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COATZACOALCOS, Mexico, April 22 (UPI) -- The death toll in the Pemex petrochemical plant explosion in Mexico climbed to 24, with more than 100 injured.