Tens of millions of people have quickly signed up to Meta’s new app, Threads, as it aims to compete with Twitter – a sign that users are looking for an alternative to the social media platform that has undergone a <a ...
HONG KONG – Coco Lee, a Hong Kong-born singer and songwriter who had a highly successful career in Asia, has died by suicide, her siblings said Wednesday. She was 48.The star had been suffering from depression for several years, Lee’s elder sisters Carol and Nancy Lee said in a statement ...
NEW YORK (AP) – Wall Street edged lower Wednesday following a rally that had sent it roaring 16% higher for the year so far.The S&P 500 fell 8.77 points, or 0.2%, to 4,446.82 to drift lower from its highest level since April 2022. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 129.83, ...
NEW YORK (AP) – For his latest role, <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/bradley-cooper">Bradley Cooper</a> leapt onto a hovering helicopter, rappelled down a 400-foot cliff and pulled himself across a 100-foot ravine in one of the harshest climates in North ...
BEIJING (AP) — Yan Mingfu, a former top Communist Party figure who acted as an envoy to pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989 and was forced out after the protests were crushed, has died, according to Chinese news reports. He was 91.Yan died Monday in a hospital of ...
PARIS (AP) — Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of an <a href="https://apnews.com/article/0de61e2fdf0e416c9d24f0370af00667">elite French unit</a> that joined U.S. and other Allied forces in the D-Day invasion to wrest Normandy from Nazi control, has died. He ...
