3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1197+ words) We’d been married for 12 years. The early years of discovery (“How’d you get that scar?”) and spontaneous trysts behind questionable Hollywood landmarks had given way to dishwasher fights (“You can’t seriously think that goes there?!?”) and bimonthly scheduled date nights…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (587+ words) MELBOURNE — The Rams arrived here as the star-studded favorite to win Super Bowl LXI at SoFi Stadium. They left star-crossed, stunned and searching for answers on their long flight back to Los Angeles. The Rams sleep-walked through much of the…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (313+ words) China’s passenger car exports in the first eight months of this year already surpassed last year’s total, an industry association said Thursday, though domestic sales continued to decline. Passenger car exports in August jumped 67.1% from the year before to around…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (781+ words) Appeals from American tourism organizations seemed to be everywhere Josh Loewen looked over the last year. Billboards and banners proclaimed a state or city’s love for Canada. Online and social media ads offered special deals for travelers from north of…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (256+ words) LONDON — More than 400 flights were canceled on Tuesday due to a technical issue in Britain’s air traffic control system, the flight monitoring website Flightradar24 reported. Britain’s National Air Traffic Services said a problem had been identified in its flight processing system…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (285+ words) Russia and North Korea opened the first road bridge across their shared border on Monday, a development Russian officials hailed as boosting the nations’ deepening ties. The bridge over the Tumen River is six-tenths of a mile long, has two…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (618+ words) Indonesia’s Geological Agency said the volcanic island located in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait between the main Java and Sumatra islands had showed signs of activity since Friday before erupting for 30 seconds at 3:53 a.m. Sunday. The agency’s closed-circuit camera showed lava…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1181+ words) In late summer, when almond husks split open, workers at Creekside Farming in Madera gear up machinery to shake the trees. Tractors zoom around, fallen nuts are collected, and trucks cart off the bins of almonds. The whole process relies…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (875+ words) PATTAYA, Thailand — There’s no getting around the fact that Thailand’s seaside resort of Pattaya has a lingering reputation for sex tourism, even though that’s only part of the story for the city that’s a major shore leave destination of crew…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (505+ words) JOHANNESBURG — A pregame stunt involving two passenger jets flying dramatically low over a sports stadium in South Africa drew huge cheers from the estimated crowd of around 56,000 people, but also sparked a major debate over safety risks. The flyby by…...