Thailand’s police made a much-heralded arrest this weekend of a man they say was involved in this month’s deadly bombing attack on a shrine in central Bangkok—though they have not released his name, nationality, or alleged connection to the attack, or charged him with any crime.
US president Barack Obama has announced a gift for his hosts this week in the state of Alaska—a decision to rename the state’s 20,237 ft. (6,168m) peak to its Native American name of Denali after more than a century of being named after Obama’s long-ago predecessor, William McKinley.
They say that every vote counts, but it’s not usually this literal: A vote on a local sales-tax increase in Columbia, Missouri will be decided this month by Jen Henderson, a 23-year-old college student.
Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin) is a human rights activist and lawyer who is famous for defending high-profile clients like Julian Assange and former Ukraine prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. But none of that seems to matter to the Associated Press:
Update: 12:01 ET
Global stock markets are plunging today (Aug. 24) on fears that China’s economy is in deep trouble. Among the many stocks taking a hit is Apple, down nearly 6% to $99.51 per share, but Tim Cook says he’s not worried. The Apple CEO took the unusual step of emailing CNBC’s Jim Cramer in the midst of the market-opening chaos to say the company “has continued to experience strong growth” in China, its second-largest market, during July and August.
A potential terrorist attack appears to have been foiled this evening (Aug. 21) after US marines on an Amsterdam-to-Paris high-speed train overpowered a gunman armed with automatic weapons and knives.
Just about anyone who has flown through a US airport since Sept. 11, 2001 has had an encounter—aggravating, hilarious, or even surprisingly great—with the Transportation Safety Administration, tasked with securing the nation’s airports and planes, among other duties. Now the online review site Yelp has unveiled an official deal with the TSA that allows the public to rate their experiences, for better or worse.
Updated: Aug. 18, 11:30am Bangkok time
It’s not unusual for lullabies to be a little scary. The well-known English-language Rock-a-bye Baby ends with an infant falling out of a tree, for example. But the lullabies from the remote island of Iceland are on a whole other level.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today (July 31) that he and his wife Priscilla are expecting a baby girl. He also wrote candidly about the couple’s difficulties in having a child, including three miscarriages over the last few years:
Don’t worry about Donald Trump, the conventional wisdom goes. His improbable campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has already peaked, according to party insiders, and his strong showing in national opinion polls doesn’t mean much since Americans vote for presidential nominees state by state.
San Francisco has been using a special hydrophobic paint on outdoor surfaces that is designed to splash pee onto outlaw urinators who try to use the city as an open-air toilet.
The length of an apologetic bow from a Japanese executive is a pretty good gauge of his embarrassment. And the 15-second bow by disgraced Toshiba CEO Hisao Tanaka—who resigned this week over a $1.2 billion accounting scandal—was a doozy.
Elon Musk runs both an electric car company and a rocket company, but with the latest speed upgrades to Tesla’s top-of-the-line Model S P85D sedan, it’s getting slightly harder to tell the difference.
That’s one small wave for an adorable robot, but potentially a giant one for robotkind.
Mixed martial arts champion Ronda Rousey had some choice words for boxing champ Floyd Mayweather when she beat him out for the ESPY award for best fighter last night.
US president Barack Obama may not be able to take away Bill Cosby’s presidential medal of freedom, but he didn’t spare any words in condemning the comedian’s alleged crimes. Dozens of women have accused Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them, and he testified in a 2005 legal deposition that he obtained a sedative to give to women that he wanted to have sex with.
Apple’s newest emoji could be a politically sensitive one.
There are few corporate entities that Americans hate more than cable companies, and Time Warner Cable is routinely the most despised among them. But still, the travails of Araceli King are extreme.
It’s been a weird feeling to watch re-runs of The Cosby Show ever since the latest allegations have surfaced from more than two dozen women who said they were drugged and raped by legendary comedian Bill Cosby—but that may not be an issue for much longer. BET’s Centric network, the last remaining cable station to air the groundbreaking sitcom, has decided to pull the show once and for all.
Federal and state investigators served a search warrant this morning on the Indiana home of Subway spokesman Jared Fogle, who famously lost more than 200 lb (90 kg) by eating nothing but the company’s sandwiches.
Police in Clearwater, Florida say an elderly Uber driver shot his passenger in the foot following an altercation.
Uber is pulling out the stops to fight a New York City bill that would cap the number of drivers it can employ. Mobilizing its users to “Save Uber as you know it in NYC,” the company said in an email to customers that it would offer a free ride to anyone using its UberPool carpooling service to go to a protest tomorrow morning (June 30) at City Hall in lower Manhattan:
