Daily Archives: Nov 9, 2013
Typhoon Haiyan death toll rises to 1,200 in Philippines
Red Cross officials estimate that at least 1,200 people were killed by Typhoon Haiyan, the largest storm ever to make landfall in Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan...
Venezuela: Nicolas Maduro orders Daka shops seizure
President Nicolas Maduro has ordered their seizure of Daka chain of shops in Venezuela. Hundreds of bargain hunters flocked to Daka shops hoping to find...
Russia criticizes Netherlands on King Willem Alexander state visit to Moscow
Russia has criticized the Netherlands for "inaction", failing to prevent a Greenpeace protest at an oil rig in September, hours before a state visit...
Ryland Goldman: Seven-year-old boy opens restaurant in California
Ryland Goldman is the 7-year-old owner of Ryland's Restaurant opened in Los Gatos, California. The restaurant is just a block away from his new school, Daves...
Justin Bieber charged with vandalism in Rio de Janeiro
Justin Bieber was charged with vandalism on November 8 for after his highly-publicized graffiti session that took place three days before. The global pop sensation’s...
Sochi Olympic torch in first spacewalk
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky are taking the torch for the Sochi Winter Olympics on its first historic spacewalk, ahead of next...
Humphrey Bogart drinking glasses sold for £8,000 at art and antiques fair in London
Drinking glasses that were a gift from Humphrey Bogart have sold for more than double their expected price. Humphrey Bogart gave public relations man Bill...
Chris Brown countersues Sha’keir Duarte over Hollywood studio fight
Chris Brown is countersuing Sha'keir Duarte, who accused the singer’s entourage of attacking him outside a recording studio earlier this year. Chris Brown, 24, filed...
Pablo Neruda was not poisoned and died of prostate cancer
Forensic experts have concluded that no traces of poison have been found in the remains of Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda. It was prostate...
CBS News apologizes for false Benghazi report on 60 Minutes
CBS News has apologized for airing a report in October that gave false information about the September 2012 attack on a US diplomatic post...
Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn have nasty arguments as he won’t be at Sochi Winter Games to support her
Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn have had some "nasty" arguments because the golfer hasn't planned on being at the Winter Games in Sochi to...
Young Lee: Pinkberry co-founder convicted of assault with deadly weapon
Young Lee, co-founder of the popular frozen yogurt chain Pinkberry, was convicted Friday of assault with a deadly weapon after confronting a homeless man...
Prosecutor Ken Anderson jailed for wrongful conviction of innocent Michael Morton
Former Texas prosecutor Ken Anderson has been sentenced to jail for his role in the wrongful conviction of an innocent man 26 years ago. Ken...
Maldives Election 2013: Voters to elect a new president after two attempts fail
Maldivian voters are going to the polls to elect a president after two previous attempts failed. Candidates came to a last-minute agreement earlier this week...
Typhoon Haiyan kills more than 120 people in Philippines
Typhoon Haiyan has killed more than 120 people in the Philippines, after it passed through the country on Friday. Aviation officials said 100 bodies were...