Empire State Jackpot!
A Mega Millions ticket holder matched all six numbers to win the lottery’s $476 million jackpot on Friday night, striking gold at an NYC convenience store. The winning numbers were 23, 27, 41, 48, and 51 with the Mega Ball of 22. The Megaplier was 2x.
The ticket was sold at Liberty Beer & Convenience in Ozone Park, Queens, according to the New York Lottery, and is the 13th largest prize in the lottery’s history. Read More...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis shamed and challenged world leaders on Wednesday to commit to binding targets to slow climate change before it’s too late, warning that God’s increasingly warming creation is fast reaching a “point of no return.”
In an unusually bleak update to his landmark 2015 encyclical on the environment, Francis heightened the alarm about the “irreversible” harm to people and planet already under way and lamented that once again, the world’s poor and most vulnerable are paying the highest price. Read More...
Getty ImagesHer lawyers say she will now seek millions in damagesA New York jury has awarded damages to Eugenie Bouchard, the tennis star who dropped out of the US Open after a fall in a trainer's room.
The 23-year-old Canadian slipped on a cleaning substance on the floor after playing a late-night match on 4 September 2015, suffering a concussion.
She did not play for the rest of the 2015 season and her world ranking has since dropped below the top 100. Read More...