[ad_1] An expert group charged by the World Health Organization to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic started released its final report on Friday, reaching an unsatisfying conclusion: Scientists still aren’t sure how the worst health emergency in a century began.…
[ad_1] It’s very likely that news of Bobby Sherman’s death on Tuesday was met with pangs of nostalgia among boomers, particularly women, and blank stares among many whose generation contains one of the last three letters of the alphabet. Sherman’s wife, Brigitte…
[ad_1] Wander Franco, the suspended Tampa Bay Rays shortstop charged in a sexual abuse case, was found guilty on Thursday but received a two-year suspended sentence. Franco was arrested last year after being accused of having a four-month relationship with…
[ad_1] In early May, an air of triumph filled a dinner in Beijing, where Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva celebrated a diplomatic victory: businessmen travelling with him said they had secured billions of dollars in investments as the…
[ad_1] Mahdi Nasiri let the world know he was on his way to Canada in April. The former high-profile Iranian official posted a series of farewell photos — including a goodbye hug — on Instagram for his more than 250,000 followers…
[ad_1] There was a particularly telling moment at a bygone NATO summit about four years ago, which perfectly captured the sometimes capricious way the Western military alliance regards Ukraine. The secretary general of the day, the often unflappable Jens Stoltenberg,…
[ad_1] It’s the latest beverage du jour — and for people needing their morning pick-me-up, matcha tea increasingly beats espresso as their caffeine fix of choice. “I worked on the bar a few weeks ago and I think past a certain point, you don’t…
[ad_1] Nearly every Windows user has had a run-in with the infamous “Blue Screen of Death” at some point in their computing lives. Now, after more than 40 years of being set against a very recognizable blue, the updated error…
[ad_1] Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for Mission: Impossible and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, died Thursday. He was 93. Schifrin’s sons, William and Ryan, confirmed his death to media. Messages from The…
[ad_1] A prominent Canadian cleric of the Armenian Apostolic Church is among more than a dozen people Armenia’s security services have arrested in connection to an alleged coup attempt this week. Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, who heads the Tavush Diocese in…