Authorities respond to an explosion near the US Embassy in Beijing
A man detonated a bomb near the US Embassy in Beijing on Thursday, according to an embassy spokesperson. The individual, identified as a 26-year-old man from the inner Mongolia region, was the only...
View ArticleFacebook joins YouTube and scrubs videos from pages belonging to InfoWars...
Facebook has removed four videos on pages belonging to InfoWars and its founder, Alex Jones, for violating the company’s community standards, according to CNN. The spokesperson said that the community...
View Article‘Trump wist wel van de ontmoeting tussen zijn zoon en een paar Russen’, zegt...
De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump was wel degelijk op de hoogte van een omstreden ontmoeting die zijn zoon Donald Trump jr. had met een aantal Russen in de Trump Tower in 2016. Dat beweert Trumps...
View ArticleMeet Imran Khan, Pakistan’s next prime minister who was his country’s biggest...
Imran Khan, the man who will become Pakistan’s next prime minister, has had a colorful past. Before entering politics in the mid-1990s, Khan was an Oxford scholar, world-renowned cricketer, and a...
View ArticleThe 10 most important things in the world right now
Hello! Here’s what’s happening on Friday. 1. Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, reportedly said Trump knew of a meeting between his senior campaign officials and a...
View Article10 things in tech you need to know today
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Friday. 1. President Donald Trump on Thursday denounced the practice of “shadowbanning” on Twitter. Trump’s tweets came after a much-disputed...
View Article10 things you need to know in markets today
Good morning! Here’s what you need to know in markets on Friday. 1. The European Commission’s chief negotiator has ruled out a key part of Theresa May’s Brexit customs plan, effectively killing her...
View ArticleLeuk die omslag naar schonere energie – maar netbeheerder Alliander kan dat...
Netbeheerder Alliander voorziet de nodige problemen bij het aanpassen van het netwerk aan nieuwe energiebronnen. Het bedrijf verwacht de komende jaren veel werk te hebben aan het verzwaren van het...
View Article9 belangrijke dingen die zich nu afspelen in de wereld
Goedemorgen! Deze dingen wil je vandaag in elk geval weten. 1. ‘Trump wist wel van de ontmoeting tussen zijn zoon en Russen in 2016 en gaf zelfs groen licht’ President Donald Trump was wél op de hoogte...
View ArticleFiat-baas Marchionne was al een jaar lang ernstig ziek – en Fiat wist van niks
De overleden oud-topman van Fiat Chrysler Sergio Marchionne was al een jaar ernstig ziek. Dat bleek donderdag na een verklaring van het ziekenhuis in het Zwitserse Zürich waar hij behandeld werd....
View ArticleThe British public now backs a second Brexit referendum
The British public supports a second Brexit referendum for the first time, according to a new poll. 42% of voters support a second referendum on whether to accept any Brexit deal Theresa May strikes...
View ArticleI got inside a Tour de France team car, the mobile command center for the...
PARIS – Think Tour de France and you think bikes, but what keeps things moving behind the scenes for the teams in the world’s preeminent two-wheeled event are the countless cars, trucks, and buses...
View ArticleThese $1 million San Francisco apartments have random support beams running...
A handful of units in a San Francisco apartment complex sport a unique interior feature: structural support beams running diagonally through the space. All of the units have sold for about $1 million...
View Article6 women have accused CBS Corp. chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves of sexual...
Six women have accused Leslie Moonves, the CEO and chairman of CBS Corporation, of unwanted sexual advances and intimidation, according to a bombshell report from The New Yorker and investigative...
View ArticleHere is Michael Jordan’s 56,000-square foot house in Chicago and why it is...
Michael Jordan’s enormous house in Chicago is still on the market after six years despite cutting the price nearly in half and still paying more than $100,000 each year in property taxes. The house...
View ArticleNa Facebook krijgt ook Twitter een harde dreun van beleggers op Amerikaanse...
Twitter is vrijdag hard onderuit gegaan op de beurs in New York. De beurswaarde van het bedrijf kelderde 20,5 procent. Beleggers maakten zich zorgen over het slinkende aantal gebruikers bij de...
View ArticleTrump takes victory lap after strong GDP report, predicts ‘we’re going to go...
At a news conference Friday, President Donald Trump said he expected the US economy to grow even faster in the second half the year. A report released earlier showed that in the second quarter, gross...
View ArticleOp vakantie met een (oude) auto? Let op de milieuzones in Europa en bespaar...
Ah, de zomervakantie. Voor de ene persoon is het even bijkomen van alle drukte, voor de ander levert de vakantie extra stress op. Als je van plan bent om een vette roadtrip door Europa te maken, zijn...
View ArticleTrump’s war against the news media is rooted in some of his deepest fears
President Donald Trump has frequently asked White House aides to punish some reporters when he’s unhappy with the way they approach him, The Washington Post reported on Friday. Reporters who shout...
View ArticleThe mystery of MH370 is about to be laid to rest for good — here are all the...
Flight MH370 disappeared four years ago with 239 people on board. It vanished on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and only fragments have ever been found. Years of investigations failed to make...
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