President-elect Donald Trump held a raucous rally in Ohio on Thursday, celebrating his victory in the US presidential election. After thanking the crowd, Trump said, "America is going to start winning again, big league." The president-elect's remarks Thursday night closely resembled his campaign speeches, touching...
Andrew Sachs, who rose to fame in Fawlty Towers, has passed away at the age of 86 after a four year battle with dementia. The actor, best known for playing hapless waiter Manuel in the John Cleese sitcom, died in a care home last week and was buried on Thursday, his heartbroken wife has revealed. Melody Sachs, who cared for...
Across Boston, lovers of McDonald’s most famous sandwich, the Big Mac, are mourning the loss of the iconic fast-food creation’s innovator, who died yesterday at 98. Michael James “Jim” Delligatti owned a McDonald’s franchise outside Pittsburgh in 1967 when he created the double-stacked burger with...
A Montreal professor has been awarded $1 million for his philosophical work on unifying Canada and the value of forging lasting human relationships. Margrave Taylor of McGill University was chosen as the first annual recipient of The Berggruen Prize for Philosophy, an award for an individual who has made “a positive...
Sarah Palin is being considered for Donald Trump’s cabinet. The former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee is a contender for Department of Veterans Affairs secretary, ABC reported. Last week Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway suggested Palin wouldn’t be joining the administration at the...
It’s not uncommon for a Republican to be pro-business. But President-elect Donald Trump showed Tuesday night he’s pro-worker, too, by saving 1,000 jobs at the Carrier plant in Indiana. His standing up for the blue-collar workers who helped get him elected is no small feat, even for the very accomplished billionaire,...
The California mom who was kidnapped, tortured and starved had a message burned into her skin by her abductors and her hair chopped off to “humiliate her,” police said Wednesday. Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko would not describe the content of the message seared into Sherri Papini, 34, who survived the harrowing...
Police feared a woman had been murdered when a man handed in what he thought was breast implant. But the squidgy circle proved to indicate something much less sinister. A concerned man raised the alarm with cops in Queensland, Australia, last week after upon stumbling upon a translucent disk he believed to be a prosthetic...
Make America work again. President-elect Donald Trump and Vice-President-elect Mike Pence struck a deal with Carrier on Monday, saving “close to 1,000” jobs in Indiana by preventing the air-conditioning company from moving its production lines to Mexico. “I will be going to Indiana on Thursday to make a major...
Brexit may never happen and Britain should stay in the European Union for as long as possible, Poland’s foreign minister has said. Witold Waszczykowski said it is in Poland’s interest that Britain remains a member of the EU and pays into the bloc’s budget for as long as possible. Mr Waszczykowski was speaking...
The hacker responsible for the ransomware attack against San Francisco's municipal transit system (Muni) may have been given a taste of his own medicine after a security researcher reportedly infiltrated the cybercriminal's own email inbox and accessed a trove of emails. The retaliatory hack has revealed clues about the...
One summer's evening, last year, Ahmed was at home in Cyprus with his wife Nadia and their young children when he received the call that would turn his life upside down. "It was his mother calling from Syria," Nadia recalled. "She told him there was a lull in the bombing of their town and that they were...