A kitchen fire ripped through the Herbivorous Butcher on Tuesday night, and the nation’s first vegan butcher shop sustained serious damage. No injuries were reported as firefighters arrived around 9 p.m. on Tuesday, May 13. The restaurant has closed as ownership assesses the damage with the intent of temporarily moving some production to St. Paul…
A Pony.ai autonomous car. Pony.ai BEIJING — One of Pony.ai‘s robotaxis caught fire for the first time on Tuesday, with no people harmed in the incident, the U.S.-listed Chinese startup told CNBC. The company did not disclose the reason behind the fire. Videos purporting to show the incident in Beijing had circulated on social media….
Polish Foreign Minister tells the BBC there is evidence Moscow was behind huge shopping centre fire Poland’s foreign minister says his country has evidence that Russia recruited people on the Telegram messaging service to carry out last year’s massive shopping centre fire in Warsaw. Speaking to the BBC in an exclusive interview, Radek Sikorski said…
Poland has accused Russian intelligence services of orchestrating a massive fire that nearly completely destroyed a shopping centre in the capital Warsaw last year. In a post on X, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Poland knows “for sure” that the blaze at the Marywilska shopping centre was caused by arson ordered by the Russian special…
Jill Sobule, a ground-breaking American songwriter whose hit I Kissed a Girl is widely considered the first song with openly-gay themes to crack the Billboard Top 20, has died in a house fire in the US city of Minneapolis, her publicist has said. Sobule, whose satirical anthem Supermodel featured in the 1995 coming-of-age film Clueless,…
Passengers have been forced to evacuate a Delta plane after an engine caught fire while on the tarmac at Orlando International Airport in Florida. Video on social media shows smoke and flames rising from the right engine, and passengers exiting the aircraft down inflatable emergency slides. Delta flight 1213 was set to depart Orlando, famous…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., warned Thursday that U.S. markets will “crash” if Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell can be fired by President Donald Trump. The comment from Warren, a frequent Powell critic, on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” came hours after Trump griped that the Fed chair’s “termination cannot come fast enough!” A senior White…
Kenya’s national high-school drama competition has been overshadowed by drama of its own after police fired tear gas to disperse a crowd that had gathered to watch a controversial play. Echoes of War is set in a fictional kingdom where the youth have lost faith in their leaders. It features battles with the police and…
Reuters Israeli strikes hit Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, from where the military said rockets had been fired Israel has carried out fresh air strikes on Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered retaliation for one of the heaviest barrages of rocket-fire by Hamas in months. The Israeli military said about half of the 10…
A Taiwanese military corvette sails as a Navy soldier stands guard on a vessel, during a Navy Drill for Preparedness Enhancement ahead of the Chinese New Year, amid escalating Chinese threats to the island, in Keelung, Taiwan, 7 Jan, 2022. Ceng Shou Yi | Nurphoto | Getty Images The U.S. on Wednesday reaffirmed its commitment…
