Billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit on Wednesday said it was pausing all operations from March 16 and a source familiar with the matter told Reuters that the satellite launch company was also furloughing nearly all its employees.
The son of one of 10 people killed at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 is suing gunmaker Sturm, Ruger & Co. over how it marketed the firearm used in the massacre — following the litigation road map set by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims.
Sidney Holmes, a Florida man who spent the past 34 years behind bars after he was convicted in an armed robbery case in 1988, walked out of court in Fort Lauderdale a free man on Monday after he was exonerated.
Russia offered Wednesday to host a new multi-sports event for countries such as China and India that are members of a regional grouping known as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Collagen is generating big business as a hair and skincare product — but the billion-dollar industry has been linked to deforestation in the Amazon, and the large-scale slaughter of donkeys and other livestock in Africa.
Czech diver David Vencl dove 50 metres straight down into the icy waters of Switzerland's Lake Sils on Tuesday. His promoter said the most difficult thing was the pressure on his eyes and ears.
The death toll in Malawi from tropical cyclone Freddy has risen to 225, the country's disaster management agency said on Wednesday, up from 190 reported on Tuesday.
Jiang Yanyong, a Chinese military doctor who revealed the full extent of the 2003 SARS outbreak and was later placed under house arrest for his political outspokenness, has died, a longtime acquaintance and a Hong Kong newspaper said Tuesday.
