2019

Kiichiro Sato, Foster Klug named to leadership posts in Asia

Sports /

The Associated Press is bolstering its coverage of Asia by naming an experienced photo editor and a seasoned foreign correspondent to key leadership posts in Tokyo. Kiichiro Sato has been named deputy news director for storytelling and photography, rounding out a leadership team directing video, text and photo coverage across the Asia-Pacific region. Sato will […]

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Biden and Democratic Rivals Exchange Attacks Over His Remarks on Segregationists

Politics /

Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday lashed out at his Democratic rivals who had condemned his fond recollections of working relationships with segregationists in the Senate, declining to apologize and defending his record on civil rights. The angry exchange shattered, at least for now, the relative comity that had marked the Democratic presidential primary. Until

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AlunaGeorge singer details sexual assault by industry figure

Entertainment /

Image copyright Robin Marchant Image caption Francis called the music industry “an unmonitored, unregulated cesspit of bad behaviour” Aluna Francis has spoken for the first time about being sexually assaulted by someone in the music industry. She told BBC podcast, The Next Episode, the man forced his hands into her underwear, undressed and tried to

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Rising Temperatures Ravage the Himalayas, Rapidly Shrinking Its Glaciers

Politics /

Climate change is “eating” the glaciers of the Himalayas, posing a grave threat to hundreds of millions of people who live downstream, a study based on 40 years of satellite data has shown. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, concluded that the glaciers have lost a foot and a half of ice

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Cassius’ Philippe Zdar dies in accidental fall

Entertainment /

Image copyright Getty Images Philippe Cerboneschi (also known as “Zdar”), one half of of French dance duo Cassius, accidentally died in Paris on Wednesday, his agent has said. “He made an accidental fall, through the window of a high floor of a Parisian building,” said Sebastien Farran, without giving further details. Cerboneschi formed Cassius with

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APNewsBreak: Texas says Rapid DNA supplier jeopardizes cases

Technology /

With a name that sounds like futuristic fiction, Rapid DNA machines roughly the size of an office printer have helped solve rape cases in Kentucky, identified California wildfire victims and verified family connections of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Now a state board in Texas has asked a growing government provider of the DNA equipment

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