Month: July 2019

damircudic/iStock(NEW YORK) — A teacher-turned-tech entrepreneur who developed a learning app is the newest member of India’s billionaire’s club, media reports say. Byju Raveendran, 37, launched his company Think and Learn Private Ltd. with the [Read More…]

LETG Jail(MINNEAPOLIS) — A Delta Airlines pilot was arrested Tuesday morning after he was suspected of being under the influence of alcohol at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP), according to airport officials. The pilot Gabriel [Read More…]

Upper Darby Police(PHILADELPHIA) — Police are looking for the mother of an “adorable” hours-old newborn girl who they say was abandoned on a Pennsylvania porch. The baby girl, still with the umbilical cord attached, was [Read More…]

FILE photo. olga_sweet/iStock(DETROIT) — Prosecutors in Michigan have decided to drop their charge against a 10-year-old boy who was accused of throwing a ball at another child’s face during a game on a school playground. [Read More…]

GomezDavid/iStock(NEW YORK) — Picking the perfect avocado can be tricky, but what if you had an entire grove of the green fruit to choose from? In honor of national avocado day, one company is giving [Read More…]

Cesare Ferrari/iStock(LONDON) — A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in the Congolese city of Goma, a major transit hub along the Rwandan border that’s home to more than two million people. It’s the [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — There were more than 100 reports of severe weather on Tuesday, including a lightning strike in Florida that injured at least six people. Heat advisories remain in effect for parts of [Read More…]

Michał Chodyra/iStock(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — Princess Haya, the sixth wife of the ruler of Dubai, was seen outside the High Court in London on the first day of a secretive court case as she [Read More…]

Slavica/iStock(PALM BEACH, Fla.) — Six people were injured on Tuesday afternoon when lightning struck a roof in South Florida, authorities said. The bolt hit a roof that several workers were repairing at a residential development [Read More…]

Belyay/iStock(NEW YORK) — At least 32 people, mostly women and children, died Wednesday when a roadside bomb ripped through a bus in western Afghanistan. Wednesday’s attack comes a day after a U.N. report was released [Read More…]

MicroStockHub/iStock(NEW YORK) — The Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates for the first in 10 years on Wednesday, and the market appears to be shrugging it off. The Federal Open Market Committee is [Read More…]

Jacob Boomsma/iStock(DETROIT) — Countless people have lost jobs in the manufacturing industry in recent years, and Detroit has borne the brunt of it. A General Motors factory right outside the city is closing for good [Read More…]