Munich – Bayern Munich will induct retiring captain Philipp Lahm into the club hall of fame, the Bundesliga champions said Friday. The 33-year-old full-back Lahm is the first to receive the honour since Oliver Kahn in 2008. In a glittering career, he won eight Bundesliga titles, six German Cups and a Champions League in addition […]
Video footage has emerged of the fatal car ramming incident in Times Square, New York, yesterday. While the accident initially drew comparisons to terrorist attacks in Europe, it appears terrorism has been ruled out. Warning: this footage may be too much for sensitive viewers. Discretion is advised. WASHINGTON(Sputnik) – New York City Police Commissioner James […]
MOSCOW, May 19 – Russia’s governing United Russia party believes US media openly interferes in the country’s domestic affairs, its first deputy chair Andrei Isayev said on Friday. Isayev told reporters that the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, has reviewed the materials accompanying a report on US media compliance with Russian laws ahead of […]
SEATTLE (AP) — Grief-stricken Chris Cornell fans left flowers at memorials across Seattle for the musician whose forceful, somber songs helped cement the city’s place in rock history. One of the locations where people gathered was the Sound Garden art sculpture at a Seattle park, for which Cornell’s band Soundgarden was named. “It’s really sad […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A young man died Thursday after being run over by a van at a protest in northwestern Venezuela, bumping up the death toll from near-daily rallies to 45, the prosecutor general’s office said. Paul Moreno, 25, died of a brain injury minutes after he was admitted to a hospital in the city […]
WASHINGTON, May 18 – The Trump administration has notified Congress of its intent to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in a fair and balanced manner that benefits the United States, Mexico and Canada, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement released on Thursday. “I look forward to working with the President, […]
RUSSIA-Moscow regrets that much negativity remains in ties with Washington, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoly Antonov said Thursday. “There is much negativity in the Russian-US ties nowadays, this is regrettable. We always task ourselves with fixing this tendency. It is about the need to convince our US colleagues that equal, neighbourly relations correspond to the […]
New Delhi – The personal records of more than 17 million users of Indian headquartered online restaurant guide Zomato have been compromised, the company said Thursday. Email addresses and passwords were among the records stolen by hackers, Zomato said in a statement on its website. “No payment information or credit card data has been stolen […]
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Latest on the manslaughter trial of a white Oklahoma police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man. (all times local): 11:45 p.m. Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Mary Fallin has called for calm after a jury found a Tulsa police officer not guilty in the shooting of an unarmed black man […]
HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stock benchmarks skidded lower Thursday following Wall Street’s worst day in months as Washington’s political chaos made investors more nervous about risky assets and the outlook for President Donald Trump’s business-friendly proposals. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index slid 1.7 percent to 19,479.84 and South Korea’s Kospi lost 0.7 […]