WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Sleep on a long-haul flight in economy class has always been a fantasy for many travelers. Air New Zealand will soon offer a solution that involves climbing into a triple-tier bunk bed wearing special socks. The airline will soon open bookings for four-hour stints in the Skynest sleep pods and …
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The government-owned corporation that delivers mail in Canada is taking steps to stop home delivery. Canada Post is initiating talks with 13 communities to begin converting about 136,000 addresses from door-to-door delivery to community mailboxes, a standalone unit with designated space for each of the multiple residences it serves. It …
SEOUL, April 17 (Reuters) – South Korea’s Unification Ministry said on Friday it was not aware of any U.S. protest or curbs on intelligence sharing following a report that Washington was unhappy about the disclosure of a previously unconfirmed North Korean nuclear site. The ministry said it had explained to the U.S. side that Minister …
WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) – Prosecutors in Minnesota’s Hennepin County have charged a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent with assault for allegedly pointing his gun at two people in a car along a highway in Minneapolis in February. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said on Thursday she believed the charges were the first to …
WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko left the United States on Thursday buoyed by what she called positive talks with top U.S. officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, saying she found him to be supportive of her war-torn country. Svyrydenko told Reuters that she used the meeting with Bessent to hammer …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Singer D4vd has been arrested on suspicion of killing a 14-year-old girl whose decomposed body was found last year in his apparently abandoned Tesla that was towed from the Hollywood Hills, authorities said Thursday. Los Angeles police said in a brief statement that the 21-year-old Houston-born alt-pop singer whose legal name …
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Donald Trump’s mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced Thursday. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced Lyons’ departure, calling him a great leader of ICE who helped to make American communities safer. …
April 17 (Reuters) – New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Friday he had the full support of his party’s lawmakers, responding to media reports that some members will push for a leadership change when parliament returns next week. The New Zealand Herald said that members of his National Party will move against him …
April 16 (Reuters) – Los Angeles police said on Thursday they have arrested David Burke, a 21‑year‑old musician known professionally as D4vd, on suspicion of murdering 14‑year‑old Celeste Rivas, whose remains were found last year in the front trunk of a car registered to him. Rivas, who was from a suburb about 70 miles (110 …
JAKARTA, April 17 (Reuters) – All eight people on board a helicopter were killed when it crashed in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province, authorities said on Friday as search teams tried to retrieve the bodies and wreckage. The Airbus H130 helicopter lost contact on Thursday morning five minutes after taking off from a plantation area in Melawi, …