In 2010, welfare officials in Tokyo tried to visit Sogen Kato, a local man living in the city’s Adachi district, to congratulate him on his 111th birthday. Their records identified him as the oldest man in the city, but his family kept turning them away, saying he didn’t want visitors or had taken a trip somewhere … Read more
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited neighboring China on Saturday in his first visit there in more than a year, meeting a top official and declaring his gratitude for Beijing’s decades of support, according to Chinese state media. Xinhua, China’s main state news agency, confirmed Kim’s one-day visit after a day of reports from South … Read more
A man who boarded a school bus full of terrified children racing down a Minnesota street after its driver had a medical emergency and manually stopped it says he was motivated to act by a verse from the Koran about how saving one life is equivalent to saving all of humanity. “I’m a numbers guy, … Read more
Live updates: the latest from Israel, Iran and the Middle East | The Jerusalem Post Houthis say they attacked Saudi oil facilities and airports • Evacuations of US diplomats accelerated after information about Iranian threats • US warns citizens in Israel about threat of Houthi attacks Follow us on Google Women prepare a makeshift monument … Read more
The Goliath ride opened in 2006 and has a 200-foot (60-m) lift, a 170-foot drop, a 540-degree spiral and a speed of up to 70 mph (112 km/h), according to the park’s website. On its “excitement scale,” Six Flags ranks Goliath at level four out of five
Apple’s first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, launched on Friday and was met with long lines and product sell-outs. On Friday we spent three hours at the Apple Store to get our own test model for our lab in Louisville, Kentucky, where I oversee hardware and software testing as director of lab operations. Now the … Read more
Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton finished the third and final free practice session for the United States Grand Prix at the top of the timesheets, the Ferrari driver setting the pace ahead of Max Verstappen and teammate Charles Leclerc. The result marked a practice win for the Scuderia, with the Mercedes duo of Kimi Antonelli, who could … Read more
Follow Us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter SpaceX launched its new batch of Starlink broadband internet satellites today (October 23) from the coast of California. The spacecraft, Starlink Group 15-15, was stacked 27 high inside the payload fairing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off … Read more
As the debate season kicked off in Iowa’s heated gubernatorial race, one question seemed to animate and, in some ways, unify the candidates. “What are the immediate and specific steps that you would take to combat Iowa’s cancer crisis?” the moderator asked the Democrat Rob Sand and Republican Zach Lahn, who both said it was … Read more
A closed Paris is a headache for locals. But Saturday was a headache for first-time visitors to Louisiana, who traveled here for an NFL football game between the New Orleans Saints and the Pittsburgh Steelers to find the Louvre museum closed and the Arc de Triomphe surrounded by police vans. “Pretty much everything is closed,” … Read more