Month: February 2020

Police in New Zealand have found the body of a British woman who disappeared during a hiking trip earlier this week. Stephanie Simpson, 32, was reported missing on Monday after telling friends she was planning to go hiking in Mount Aspiring National Park on the country’s South Island. Simpson, a landscape gardener in nearby Wanaka,

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Search teams in Indonesia on Friday found the bodies of a dozen soldiers killed when their helicopter crashed eight months ago in the country’s easternmost province of Papua where separatist rebels are active, officials said. The cause of the crash remains under investigation. Teams from the army’s elite troops found the

PARIS (AP) — France’s Renault saw its sales and earnings drop last year and says 2020 will be tough due to the need for investment in new technologies at a time when the market is shrinking. The company sold 3.8 million vehicles last year, down 3.4%, with revenue dropping about the same rate to 55.5

Online romance scams are growing at a dizzying pace, raking in millions of dollars from unsuspecting victims across the United States. Some of the scams drag on for months or years, and leave the victims crushed emotionally and financially. Just this week, federal officials announced that Americans lost $201 million to online romance scams last

The number of novel coronavirus cases has risen to more than 64,000 worldwide, after China reported another major increase at the epicenter of the outbreak following a change in how authorities there diagnose cases. As of Friday morning, over 100 more people had died of the virus, officially known as Covid-19, in central China’s Hubei

When Miky Lee was growing up in South Korea in the 1960s, American movies and television were everywhere. When she turned on her black-and-white television — American content. When she went to movie theaters — American films. So as an adult, Lee decided to change that. Fast forward to 2020, and it’s fair to say

BEIJING (AP) — In the middle of a phone call with a customer, an important visitor knocks on Michael Xiong’s door: his 3-year-old son. Xiong, a salesman in Chibi, a city near the center of a virus outbreak, is one of millions of people in China who are obeying government orders to work from home

Some Iowa state lawmakers want terminally ill adults in their state to have the right to end their own life. The Iowa End-of-Life Options Act was introduced in the state Senate last week, and in the state House on Thursday. Under the proposed legislation, an adult deemed terminally ill by physicians would have the right

FEB. 7-13, 2020 This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean, curated by AP photo editor Anita Baca in Mexico City. Follow AP visual journalism: Instagram: AP Images on Twitter: AP Images blog:

An elderly widower in Oregon lost $200,000 in an online romance scam, and state officials are warning residents not to be the next victims. The elaborate con job started with an unidentified person stealing a Florida’s woman identity, the Oregon Division of Financial Regulation said in a statement. The scammer then used the stolen identity