VIENNA- OPEC and Russia moved closer on Wednesday to agreeing to cuts in oil production from next year despite pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to reduce the price of crude. OPEC meets on Thursday in Vienna, followed by talks with allies such as Russia on Friday. OPEC’s de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, has indicated a need for steep output […]

Consider this the International House of Mistakes. A landscaper smeared himself in maple syrup during a break while working at a Connecticut home to watch porn and then secretly recorded himself having sex with a female co-worker when she joined in on the sticky scene, according to a report. Robert Somley, 52, was booked on a voyeurism charge after he […]

President Donald Trump’s tweets regularly cause firestorms online, but a recent series of posts have raised fiery legal questions. His tweets about his former lawyer Michael Cohen and longtime political advisor Roger Stone, both of whom have been questioned by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team about the Russian investigation prompted a quick and complicated backlash online. “‘Michael Cohen asks judge […]

Students say they are facing a bleak future as labour deadlock between the government and professors continues. Nsukka, Nigeria – On a hot December afternoon in this southeastern town, a dry, dusty wind blows over the main entrance gate of the University of Nigeria campus.  Only a few cars and a handful of people are trickling in and out. Six […]

‘I am a former beret model who is also a lyric in songs’: Monica Lewinsky talks about her affair with Bill Clinton in humorous speech while her ex attends George Bush’s funeral with his wife Monica Lewinsky spoke at the Women in Entertain Breakfast on Wednesday about her affair with former president Bill Clinton Across the country, Clinton attended the funeral […]

Emissions of carbon dioxide – the greenhouse gas most responsible for global warming – reached an all-time high in 2018, scientists announced Wednesday. Global carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere “are now higher than they’ve been for millions of years,” said Rob Jackson of the Global Carbon Project at Stanford University, who was one of the study co-authors. The emissions have […]

The city’s unceremoniously ousted emergency management chief on Wednesday issued a mea culpa for his heated Friday meeting with a deputy mayor that ended in his badly botched firing. “I’m disappointed in myself, actually,” said lame duck OEM Commissioner Joseph Esposito. “I’m an Italian kid from Brooklyn, I talk with my hands, I get a little loud sometimes and I […]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (Dec 5) urged Opec members not to slash production at their upcoming meeting, saying global oil prices should remain low. Trump’s comment came as members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and other oil-producing nations prepared to meet Thursday and Friday in Vienna to discuss lowering their output. “Hopefully Opec […]

A substitute teacher is no longer working in a New Jersey school district after telling first graders Santa is not real, officials said. The incident allegedly took place on Nov. 29 at the Cedar Hill School in Towaco, New Jersey, according to Principal Michael Raj, who sent a letter to the students’ parents that day. “During the course of the […]

Provocative president intensifies attack on the Catholic Church, which opposes his deadly war on drugs. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said his country’s Catholic bishops are “useless fools” and should be “killed” as the controversial leader stepped up his attack on the church, which has opposed his deadly war on drugs in the Southeast Asian archipelago. In a speech at the presidential […]