Temple University says acting president JoAnne A. Epps has died after collapsing on stage
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Temple University says acting president JoAnne A. Epps has died after collapsing on stage.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Temple University says acting president JoAnne A. Epps has died after collapsing on stage.
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Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department says it had raided a property in Henderson, writes Bevan Hurley
A man accused of abducting a woman in Seattle, driving her hundreds of miles to his home in Oregon and locking her in a makeshift cinder block cell is facing fresh charges of kidnapping and rape in a separate case involving alleged crimes two months earlier, court documents show. An indictment returned by a grand jury in southern Oregon's Klamath County says that on or around May 6, Negasi Zuberi kidnapped a victim referred to as an unidentified Jane Doe in the county in order to rape her. The indictment also alleges that he knowingly injured the victim by using or threatening to use weapons including a handgun and a stun gun.
Pope Francis on Saturday elevated 21 clergymen from the four corners of the world to the rank of cardinal, saying diversity was indispensable to the future of the Catholic Church."Diversity is necessary; it is indispensable.
Police released a video of a group of people who smashed their way into a store and took several items in Northeast Philadelphia on Tuesday night, September 26.The footage, recorded by PC Richard & Son surveillance cameras, showed a group of people smashing the glass doors with hammers before entering the store and making off with items, including televisions.The Philadelphia Police Department, which published the video on their official X (formerly Twitter) page, wrote: “Northeast Detective Division is seeking the public’s help identifying the individuals seen in the following video clips. They smashed the glass of the front doors and forced entry into the PC Richard & Son at 2420 Cottman Ave. Taken was various merchandise.”Philadelphia police reported widespread looting in the city on Tuesday night, mostly in Center City. Mayor Jim Kenney thanked police for their “swift response." Credit: Philadelphia Police Department via Storyful
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Some of the world’s most significant artworks have been highly controversial. From paintings to installations, these specimens of refined imagination have often been at the heart of serious debates, pitting freedom of expression and rigid societal conventions on opposing sides. For instance, the recent Royal Academy exhibition on Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović. To enter the exhibition, visitors have to squeeze between two nude models. However, those who want to avoid taking on the d
Fans on both sides were outraged when the alleged offensive images mocking Bradley gained traction online
STORY: Steven Nabil is cradling a picture of his fiancé, one of over a hundred people killed in the huge fire that swept through a wedding hall in Iraq last month.He was working as a DJ there. He stepped outside for a break when the disaster happened.On Sunday, Iraq's interior minister announced that investigators are blaming the blaze in Hamdaniya on gross negligence and a lack of safety measures....the latest in a series of similar incidents in recent years, all said to be caused by negligence, lax regulation, and corruption.This fire was accidental and unintentional, according to the government report, which said 900 people had been allowed into a building designed to hold only 400.Flammable decorations also made the fire spread more quickly, said the interior minister, and people became trapped by exit doors that were too small. Previously officials said they had arrested 14 people.Nabil remembers his fiancé's final moments. He's saying she called him on his cell phone and said "I'm going to die. Take care of yourself. I love you so much." When he raced back to the hall he found horrific scenes of people dying. He says his fiancé was found later, dead, sitting on a chair with her phone still in her hand.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 30 — The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner, Tan Sri Azam Baki, has revea...
STORY: Pope Francis further cemented his legacy on Saturday (September 30), elevating 21 prelates to the high rank of cardinal.It significantly raises the percentage of electors chosen by him who will have the right to vote for his successor.And therefore increases the possibility that the next pope will share his vision of a more progressive, inclusive Church.The ceremony, known as a consistory, took place in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.The new cardinals come from 14 different countries around the world. Eighteen of the 21 newly elected cardinals are under the age of 80 and thus eligible under Church law to enter a secret conclave to elect the next pope after Francis' death or resignation. They are known as cardinal electors. There are now 137 cardinal electors and about 73 percent of them were chosen by Francis. The red-hatted "princes of the Church" are the Pope's closest advisers at the Vatican and around the world.Each new cardinal received a ring of office and the red, three-blade hat known as a "biretta."It was the pope's ninth consistory since his election in 2013.
A traffic stop captured on video by a bystander shows a handcuffed Black man with swollen eyes and a bloody face sitting on the ground surrounded by officers outside a vehicle in northeast Florida, and the officers' law enforcement agency says it has launched an internal review. Force was used while taking 24-year-old Le’Keian Woods into custody on Friday, and the agency was conducting an administrative review of what happened to see if any policies were violated, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said in a statement. The video released by Woods' attorney, Harry Daniels, shows at least three officers on top of Woods, who is chest-down on grass besides a car.
Shop owners have asked the government to specifically outlaw attacks on retail workers.
Leaders of various Christian denominations joined an unprecedented ecumenical prayer at the Vatican on Saturday in the presence of Pope Francis, ahead of the opening of a major Synod. Since becoming pope in 2013, 86-year-old Francis has repeatedly reached out to other Christian denominations and to other religions.
A Virginia jury has convicted a former schools superintendent on a misdemeanor charge in connection with what prosecutors said was the retaliatory firing of a teacher who reported that an elementary school student inappropriately touched her. Former Loudoun County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Ziegler was acquitted on a separate misdemeanor count after the five-day trial, local news outlets reported. The charges stemmed from a special grand jury commissioned by Attorney General Jason Miyares that investigated the school system’s widely criticized response to two sexual assaults committed by a high school student against female classmates in 2021.
A United Nations mission visited Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, Azerbaijan said, after almost the entire ethnic-Armenian population fled since Baku recaptured the breakaway enclave.- Ethnic hatred - Yerevan has accused Baku of "ethnic cleansing" -- an allegation that Baku rejected -- calling on Armenians not to leave their homes and reintegrate with Azerbaijan where their rights would be respected.
At least 13 people were killed in a fire in a Spanish nightclub on Sunday morning, authorities said, with fears the toll could still rise as rescue workers sift through the debris.The fire broke out in the two-storey "Teatre" nightclub, also called "Fonda Milagros", in the city of Murcia in southeastern Spain in early hours of the morning. Emergency services said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that firefighters were continuing to work at the scene and had not ruled out "the possibility of finding more victims."Jose Ballesta, mayor of Murcia, said the fire had broken out at around 6:00 am local time (0400 GMT) and was "extremely serious".Ballesta told press at the scene that "there are still bodies to be pulled out" from the rubble, which he said was a complicated task given the "risk of collapse".Firefighters dispatched to the scene at 7:00 am were able to extinguish the fire by 8:00 am, he said.Photos released by the emergency services show water hoses from fire trucks spraying the blackened facade of the club.Thick smoke could be seen billowing from the roof of the building.Authorities said four people were injured, two women aged 22 and 25 years old and two men in their forties, all suffering with smoke inhalation.- Birthday party -A police spokesperson said that a birthday party was being held at the club on Saturday night."According to initial information, the fire broke out on the first floor of the nightclub, which has a ground floor and a first floor," Diego Seral, the national police spokesman told radio Onda Regional de Murcia.Forensic and judicial police experts "have been deployed to the Murcia nightclub where the fire broke out this morning to investigate the cause," the national police service said on X, formerly known as Twitter.Video footage released by the city's firefighting brigade shows the firefighters holding a long hose approaching bright orange flames inside the venue, passing bar tables that still have drinks placed on top of them.More than 40 firefighters and 12 emergency vehicles were attending the scene, authorities said.Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez voiced "solidarity with the victims and relatives of the tragic fire in a Murcia nightclub".The city's town hall had earlier said it "deeply regrets" the accident and offered condolences to those affected.The mayor announced that three days of mourning would be held, and set up a reception base for the relatives of victims.Forty people were injured in 2017 in a packed nightclub on Spain's holiday island of Tenerife when a floor collapsed.The injured were from countries including France, Britain, Romania and Belgium.And in 1990, 43 people died in a fire at a nightclub in Spain's northeastern city of Zaragoza.mig/rox/acc/giv
The death toll from a shaft collapse at a disused gold mine in Zimbabwe was expected to rise to 13, the vice president said, according to state media. State-run newspaper The Sunday Mail quoted Vice President Constantino Chiwenga as saying “we believe we have lost about 13” in the mine disaster, which happened on Friday in the gold-rich town of Chegutu, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of the capital, Harare. Eight have been confirmed dead, with three bodies removed from the mine and five located but not yet removed, Chiwenga said.