Forget driverless cars. One company wants autonomous helicopters to spray crops and fight fires
When Hector Xu was learning to fly a helicopter in college, he recalled having a few “nasty experiences” while trying to navigate at night. The heart-stopping flights led to ...
UK farmers plan to protest at Parliament over a tax hike they say will ruin family farms
With banners, bullhorns, toy tractors and an angry message, British farmers are descending on Parliament on Tuesday to protest a hike in inheritance tax that they say will deal a ...
Takeaways from the AP’s investigation into Osprey safety issues
After being grounded for months following a crash last November that killed eight service members in Japan, the V-22 Osprey — ...
In southern India’s tea country, small but mighty efforts are brewing to bring back native forests
Scattered groves of native trees, flowers and the occasional prehistoric burial ground are squeezed between hundreds of ...
The Osprey’s safety issues spiked over five years and caused deaths. Pilots still want to fly it
Over a New Mexico training range named the Hornet, two Osprey aircraft speed 100 feet off the ground, banking hard over ...
G20 summit calls for more aid to Gaza and an end to the war in Ukraine
Leaders of the world’s 20 major economies called for a global pact to combat hunger, more aid for war-torn Gaza and an end to ...
Lainey Wilson invites local super-fan & St. Jude patient on stage at hometown concert
It’s been a highly anticipated weekend for locals in Northeast Louisiana as country music star Lainey Wilson returns to her ...
Grambling squanders 17-3 lead, falls to Alabama A&M 22-17; Coach Joseph acknowledges need for better adjustments and consistency in second-half
Grambling held a 17-3 lead against Alabama A&M last Thursday, but struggled in the second half with a slow start. Meanwhile, A&M made key adjustments and ...
Arthur Frommer, travel guide innovator, has died at 95
Arthur Frommer, whose “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day” guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel by convincing average Americans to ...
Toronto author Anne Michaels wins Giller Prize for novel ‘Held’
Poet-novelist Anne Michaels has won the Giller Prize for her novel “Held,” a multi-generational examination of war and trauma. The 100,000 Canadian dollar ($71,000) Giller prize ...
Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion laws, including an explicit ban on pills to end pregnancy
A state judge on Monday struck down Wyoming’s overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the ...
35,000 crowd New Zealand’s Parliament grounds in support of Māori rights
As tens of thousands of marchers crowded the streets in New Zealand’s capital Wellington on Tuesday, the throng of people, ...