A firefighter and a resident were injured in a two-alarm fire in a Cambridge, Massachusetts, triple-decker overnight.
Deutsche Telekom lifted its annual outlook for the second time and posted quarterly core profit above estimates on Thursday, supported by upbeat performances in its U.S. unit T-Mobile along with growth in its European business. Adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation after leases (EBITDA AL) rose to 9.9 billion euros ($10.19 billion), beating consensus estimates of 9.84 billion euros in a poll of analysts published by the company. The telecoms operator's second-quarter revenue rose 5.9% to 28.2 billion euros, in line with consensus estimates.
Serena loses 1st match since saying she's prepared to retire TORONTO (AP) — Serena Williams lost her first match since telling the world she is ready to leave professional tennis. No one knows exactly how many more matches Williams will play before walking away. The 23-time Grand Slam champion exited the National Bank Open on Wednesday night with a 6-2, 6-4 loss to Belinda Bencic. The second-round match at the hard-court tuneup for the U.S. Open came a day after the 40-year-old Williams announce
Since North Korea acknowledged an Omicron outbreak of the virus had occurred in May, it has reported about 4.8 million "fever cases" in its population of 26 million - but only identified a fraction of them as COVID-19. The North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Thursday that Kim's sister, Kim Yo Jong, said her brother had suffered "a fever" and blamed the North Korean outbreak on leaflets flown across the border from South Korea.
EDMONTON — Team Canada needed some time to shake off the rust as they embarked on a late-summer campaign for gold. Coming into their first game of the world junior hockey championship in Edmonton, many on the squad hadn't laced up their skates for a competitive bout in several months. The time away showed at moments, but Canada held on for a 5-2 victory over Latvia to open the tournament on Wednesday. "I know a coach is never happy with the game, but considering the time of year and where we’re
ATLANTA (AP) — Tens of thousands of Music Midtown festivalgoers are no longer going to descend on Atlanta’s massive Piedmont Park next month to cheer on hip-hop star Future or watch beloved rock band My Chemical Romance take the stage. In fact, some people are convinced Atlanta — center of the nation’s hip-hop music scene — will lose more music festivals and performances on public land as organizers and artists learn that state law makes it nearly impossible for them to stop people from carrying
Rodolfo Castro had two hits to spark the offense one night after a smartphone faux pas, and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-4 on Wednesday. Stout got the final out for his first career save, helping the Pirates wiggle out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the ninth.
The "Grown-ish" actor is set to star as Ariel in a live-action remake of "The Little Mermaid" in 2023.
MONTREAL (AP) — Nick Kyrgios beat top-ranked defending champion Daniil Medvedev 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-2 on Wednesday in the National Bank Open. Krygios, the Australian ranked 37th, won last week in Washington for his seventh ATP Tour title. Medvedev won last week in Los Cabos, Mexico. “Today I had a very clean objective of how I was going to play, a lot of serve-and-volley, a lot of aggressive play from the back,” Kyrgios said. “I executed better than he did, that’s all it comes down to. He won the fi
Even before last week's visit to Taiwan by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, fish farmer Chen Sheng-You was on the lookout for new business, with trade curbs cutting him off from his major source of revenue - China. Beijing suspended purchases of grouper fish, Chen's main product, in June after repeatedly detecting banned chemicals. But the geopolitical storm that followed Pelosi's visit on Aug. 2 is likely to put the livelihoods of Chen and other farmers and fishermen in the island's southern Pingtung county at further risk.
Other suburban stadium projects were dumped by the Coalition, due to budgetary reasons
Two juveniles are in the hospital following a crash involving a school bus in Lake Worth Wednesday morning.
STATE OF THE ARTS: The filmmaker’s decade-old comments have provoked condemnation on social media this week. Is it fair to judge someone for something they wrote a decade ago? Maybe, writes Louis Chilton, but the appeal of a quick ‘gotcha’ could be overshadowing the bigger issues at play
Rob Pelinka took the stand as jury selection and opening statements took place in Bryant's lawsuit against Los Angeles County on Wednesday.
At an indoor pool in a western Sydney suburb, about 20 Afghan women who recently reached Australia as refugees listen to former asylum seeker Maryam Zahid as she offers them swimming classes and talks about the country's beach culture. Zahid, who arrived in Australia from Afghanistan 22 years ago, said her sessions help the women develop "an identity for themselves" and deal with the trauma of the war that ravaged their home country. "That is something that will impact psychological and emotional aspects of their life ... to have an identity for themselves as a human being first," Zahid told Reuters at the Ruth Everuss aquatic centre in the suburb of Auburn.
Kanye West, Lil Uzi Vert and Steve Lacy showed off their matching tattoos in an Instagram post on Wednesday
China and South Korea clashed on Thursday over a U.S. missile defence shield, threatening to undermine efforts by the new government in Seoul to overcome longstanding security differences. China, contending THAAD's powerful radar could peer into its airspace, curbed trade and cultural imports after Seoul announced its deployment in 2016, dealing a major blow to relations.
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