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latest news & developmentsTropical Storm Ernesto hits Carolina coast
Tropical Storm Ernesto hit North Carolina near hurricane strength on Thursday, flooding some coastal areas in both Carolina states though there were no immediate reports of…
Gatlin banned for maximum of eight years
Olympic champion Justin Gatlin was banned for up to eight years after agreeing that his positive drugs test constituted a doping violation, the United States Anti-Doping Agency…
Activists arrested ahead of US’s 1 000th execution
Sixteen anti-death penalty activists were arrested late on Thursday in Raleigh, North Carolina, outside a prison that is scheduled to carry out the 1 000th execution in the…
Father of the synthesiser dies in US
Robert A Moog, whose self-named synthesisers turned electric currents into sound and opened the musical wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71. Moog died on Sunday at…