A Traditional Stone House Near the Croatian Coast $537,000 (479,000 EUROS) This traditional stone house is in Sveti Lovrec, a fortified medieval village on the Istrian Peninsula in Croatia, about 10 miles from the Adriatic Sea. Built in the early 1900s, the 2,433-square-foot home has been used as a school and a residence, although it […]
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UCLA is back on top. Kinsley Washington’s RBI single in the bottom of the seventh inning lifted the Bruins past Oklahoma 5-4 on Tuesday night, and UCLA won the championship series 2-0. It is the Bruins’ 13th national title, 12th NCAA title and first championship since 2010. “The history is as old as dirt,” said
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The shadow business secretary has criticised government policies on climate change and what she said was a lack of help for the UK steel industry. At PMQs, Rebecca Long Bailey accused the Conservatives of offering only “empty rhetoric” to steel workers, and “running down clock on our planet”. Conservative David Lidington – standing in for
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U.S. companies added the fewest jobs in nine years, a private survey found, as manufacturers, construction firms and mining companies cut workers. Payroll processor ADP said Wednesday that businesses added just 27,000 jobs in May, the fewest since March 2010. Jobs in construction fell 36,000 and in manufacturing by 3,000. The figures come just after
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Registered sex offenders in New York received $63,000 worth of erectile dysfunction drugs and other sexual treatments courtesy of the state’s publicly funded Medicaid program, according to an audit released Wednesday. Federal rules bar Medicaid coverage of sexual treatments for all recipients, not just sex offenders. Yet state Medicaid officials approved $930,000 in improper payments
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Image copyright Getty Images Miley Cyrus has responded angrily online after apparently being grabbed by a stranger in Barcelona. The singer, writing on Twitter, said: “She CAN’T be grabbed without her consent.” A video posted online appears to show a fan grabbing the singer by the neck before trying to kiss her. Miley’s reaction seems
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The Latest on the French Open (all times local): ——— 2 p.m. Rain is delaying the start of play for the last two women’s quarterfinals — and the forecast is not good. Defending champion Simona Halep is slated to face American teenager Amanda Anisimova on Court Philippe Chatrier and eighth-seeded Ash Barty is to play
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Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey on Wednesday unveiled a plan to tackle affordable housing that would provide a tax credit for renters to ensure they would not spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent — a sweeping new entitlement program that his campaign estimated would reach 57 million Americans, including 17
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Sophie Turner stars in X Men: Dark Phoenix The finale of the X-Men series had its world premiere in Hollywood on Tuesday night and woke up to varying reviews. Dark Phoenix, which stars British actor Sophie Turner in the title role, is the 12th in the film series. It’s Turner’s
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Experts say the government should be frank about the inter-dependence of civilian and military nuclear Energy bills in the UK are inflated partly because households are subsidising nuclear submarines, MPs have been told. Experts think one government motive for backing civilian nuclear power is to cross-subsidise the defence industry.
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