OURAY, Colo. (AP) — A southwestern Colorado police chief has been placed on paid administrative leave after charges were filed against three men in the case of a 17-year-old girl who reported being raped by more than one person during a party at the chief’s house. The city of Ouray announced Monday that Police Chief … Read more
A golf professional at a country club has won an unfair dismissal case after he was wrongly accused of telling a junior female colleague “you smell so good I could lick you all over”. Mark Sturgess was sacked from his job at Cambridge Country Club in June 2022 after he was alleged to have made … Read more
BEIJING — A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck a sparsely populated part of China’s western Xinjiang region early Tuesday, downing power lines, destroying at least two homes and prompting authorities to suspend trains, local authorities and state media reported. No fatalities or injuries were immediately reported. Xinhua News Agency cited the China Earthquake Networks Center as … Read more
DAMASCUS, Syria — An Israeli strike on the Syrian capital, Damascus, destroyed Saturday a building used by Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard killing and wounding 10 people, state media outlets and an official with an Iran-backed group said. An opposition war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said at least five people were killed in … Read more
BANGKOK — A fire broke out in dorms at a boarding school for elementary students in central Henan province, and 13 people died in the blaze, China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported Saturday. It was not immediately clear how many of the dead were students. One person rescued from the scene was being treated in the … Read more
MEXICO CITY — Mexican officials said Saturday they are investigating the reported disappearance of nine Colombian women in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco. The women were apparently working as escorts for a gang that retained their passports, and were sent to an event in the Tabasco city of Cardenas but did not return. Juan … Read more
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — More than 30 Palestinians, including young children, were killed in two Israeli airstrikes overnight into Saturday in the Gaza Strip, officials said, as concerns continued to grow over a lack of fuel and supplies for overburdened hospitals. Video provided by Gaza’s Civil Defense department showed rescue workers searching through the twisted … Read more
ISLAMABAD — A magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook parts of Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan on Thursday, sending panicked residents fleeing from their homes and offices and frightening people in remote villages, Pakistani officials and the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter of the quake was in the Hindu Kush mountain range in Afghanistan, according to the … Read more
TOKYO — Police arrested a woman who wielded a knife and injured four passengers inside a train that stopped at Tokyo’s electronic town of Akihabara late Wednesday, Japanese media reported. Police rushed to the scene after a report that a woman was brandishing a knife while the train stopped at the Akihabara station, where four … Read more
Tesla just published its fourth-quarter vehicle production and deliveries report for 2023. Here are the key numbers: Total deliveries Q4 2023: 484,507 Total production Q4 2023: 494,989 Total annual deliveries 2023: 1,808,581 Total annual production 2023: 1,845,985 In 2022, the Elon Musk-led automaker reported annual deliveries of 1.31 million and production of 1.37 million electric vehicles. The new … Read more