Month: October 2019

By Sarah Wu HONG KONG, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Municipal workers scrubbed away noxious blue dye from the steps of Hong Kong’s biggest mosque on Monday, while Muslim worshippers expressed frustration over police firing a water cannon outside the mosque during a large anti-government march. Senior police officers visited the Kowloon mosque to explain it…

(Bloomberg) — Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said her move to formally endorse Senator Bernie Sanders on Saturday, weeks after the 2020 Democratic candidate suffered a heart attack, was an “authentic decision.” The influential first-term lawmaker was interviewed at Sanders’s Saturday rally in New York City. Her comments will air in full Monday on CBS’s “This Morning.”…

On Saturday, Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders gave his first campaign rally since having a heart attack earlier this month. An estimated 26,000 people crowded into the venue in Queens, according to Politico, making it the single largest campaign event of the primary so far. “I am more than ready to take…

Amusement parks are designed to deliver thrills. They are places for splashing and screaming and laughing, often on rides that defy common sense, not to mention the laws of physics. But a park in New Jersey routinely delivered a lot worse — bloody noses, bruises, broken teeth and bones, concussions and even death. People who…

WASHINGTON — It is the most solemn of rituals for American presidents: comforting the soldiers wounded under his command or the families of those who have died. For generations, presidents have typically discussed those encounters in the most delicate of tones. “The hardest thing I have to do, by far, much harder than the witch…

(Reuters) – A tornado plowed through parts of northern Dallas late on Sunday, knocking out power to more than 175,000 homes and businesses and delaying flights at regional airports, officials said. The storm left a miles-long swath of destruction through Dallas, hitting near the Love Field airport in the city’s north, the National Weather Service’s…

As the industry takes stock of the spring/summer 2020 season during October, we’re presented with the perfect opportunity to weed out that illusory phrase ‘fashion month’. As well-trodden as the New York/London/Milan/Paris circuit is, it isn’t the full story. In reality, the spring/summer 2020 show calendar is far from a four-part tale. Shanghai Fashion Week…

Share 21st Oct 2019 Over the weekend, British free-to-air television channel ITV aired a documentary which featured footage captured during the course of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s recent African royal tour, titled Harry & Meghan: An African Journey. While the documentary covered a variety of topics, it was the very open, honest and rather…

Share 21st Oct 2019 Just when we thought Jennifer Lopez was straying from her romantic comedy roots, the triple-threat talent came back at us with a film that is sure to have us in hysterics and pluck at our heart strings, in a couture wardrobe, no less. In the follow-up to her most recent film,…

12 years after — André Aciman’s novel about an intense summer romance between a teenager and an older student — a sequel has arrived. (out October 29) follows the story of Oliver, over the two decades after he returned to the US leaving Elio in Italy, and reveals what life has dealt the two men…