International News (Page 435)

Joe Williams congratulates John Wooden after UCLA beat Jacksonville University during the national championship game of the NCAA college basketball tournament on March 21, 1970. AP Joe Williams, who coached Artis Gilmore and tiny Jacksonville University to the 1970 NCAA Tournament championship game against mighty UCLA, died Saturday. He was 88. Williams, who also coached…Continue Reading

Party on, baby. That’s what Will Smith did early Monday morning at the Vanity Fair Oscars after party in Hollywood hours after he slapped Chris Rock across the face during the live award show. Smith, with wife Jada Pinkett Smith nearby, cheerfully sang along as the DJ played his songs “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” and…Continue Reading

Kevin Sheehan had just 10 minutes to catch the Blue Angels flying over New York City. The entire story, from assignment to completion, took the reporter a head-spinning 30 minutes. In this episode of “Urban Legend,” he looks back at this rapid-fire assignment from April 2020. “Maybe it was for security reasons that they kept…Continue Reading

Health workers wearing protective gear as a measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus walk down a street in Jing’an district in Shanghai on March 26, 2022.Hector Retamal | Afp | Getty ImagesBEIJING — China’s biggest city Shanghai began a two-stage lockdown Monday as authorities attempt different strategies to maintain growth, while trying to control the country’s…Continue Reading

Dr. Sian Proctor during fighter jet training in Montana on August 8, 2021.John Kraus / Inspiration4Sian Proctor became the first Black woman to pilot a spacecraft last year, but despite her success the astronaut says she’s suffered with imposter syndrome her “entire life.”One example of when Proctor said she suffered from this self-doubt was after…Continue Reading

Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Minister of External Affairs of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar pose for a photo during the Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Moscow, Russia on September 10, 2020.Russian Foreign Press Service Handout | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesThere’s been a…Continue Reading

Traders on the floor of the NYSE, March 25, 2022.Source: NYSEStock futures were lower early Monday morning as investors look ahead to a series of key economic reports and continue to keep a close eye on the Federal Reserve’s planned interest rate hikes.Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average moved lower by 131 points,…Continue Reading

On a display at a gas station, a liter of diesel costs 7.19 zloty. Refueling is also more expensive than ever in Poland, but still a lot cheaper than in neighboring Germany.Patrick Pleul | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesPoland’s economy has had a strong start to the year, but as the war in neighboring Ukraine…Continue Reading