Two people were injured after a group of French soldiers fired at a car near a mosque in the southeastern city of Valence in a "surprising incident," officials said Friday. The incident happened after the person in the car "deliberately" drove toward … Read the full article on ABC News »
© Reuters. Natalie Cole poses backstage during the 14th Latin Grammy Awards in Las VegasWASHINGTON (Reuters) – Singer Natalie Cole, the daughter of Nat King Cole, has died at the age of 65, according to U.S. media reports.
The TMZ celebrity news website said Cole died from congestive heart failure following complications from a kidney transplant and Hepatitis C, diagnosed in 2008.
Cole scored a big hit in 1991 with “Unforgettable” — a virtual duet with her late father,…
2016 isn’t starting off great for daily fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel: the New York attorney general has filed an amendment to its lawsuit against the companies demanding that they return all of the profits they earned in the state to those that lost money using the sites. In addition, the AG is calling for a fine of up to $5,000 per case.
According to ESPN, the two sites raked in more than $200 million in entry fees from at least 600,000 users in New York, though it’s not clear how much of that…
The records continue to fall for Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens, which just became the highest-grossing film of all time in U.S. theaters for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
The Force Awakens has now earned more than $629 million domestically since its December 18 premiere, moving it past 2012’s superhero team-up blockbuster The Avengers to become the fourth highest-grossing film of all time in the U.S. The new ranking also makes it the most successful film of all time for Disney.
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PARIS – A man rammed his car into four soldiers guarding a mosque in the French city of Valence Friday, local officials said. The soldiers were not seriously injured and were able to open fire on the car, injuring the driver twice with bullets … Read the full article on NBCNews.com »
Snowstorm in Lebanon strands motorists, hits refugeesBEIRUT (Reuters) – A snowstorm hit Lebanon on Friday, local media reported, stranding motorists and adding to the woes of tens of thousands of Syrian refugees living in makeshift shelters.
Emergency services deployed bulldozers to try to clear roads in mountainous inland areas in the north and south, but efforts were hampered by continuing snowfall later in the day, the National News Agency said.
Roads were closed in…
