Colin Powell’s death at 84 underscores the continuing risk that Covid-19 presents to older people — even if they are fully vaccinated, as Powell was. For vaccinated Americans in their 70s and 80s, Covid remains more dangerous on average than many other everyday risks, including falls, choking, gunshot wounds or vehicle accidents: The numbers in […]
No industry is safe from the realities of layoffs. Not even wizarding. After more than two decades as the official wizard of Christchurch, Ian Brackenbury Channell, 88, saw his $10,000 annual contract go poof last week, according to Stuff, a news site in New Zealand. No longer will the city payroll support “acts of wizardry […]
ImagePeople in line for Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 booster vaccinations in Southfield, Mich., last month.Credit…Emily Elconin/Reuters Even as the Delta-variant-driven virus wave is receding in much of the United States, many counties across the country’s northernmost regions are experiencing rising cases as colder weather arrives. The top five states in new daily cases per capita are led […]
KONGSBERG, Norway — A few years ago, a nervous Danish man walked into a mosque in this placid Scandinavian town, seeking help in delivering a message to the world that he claimed to have received “from above.” The mosque’s spokesman sent him away. But he recalled the odd episode last week after the man, Espen […]
SEOUL — Kim Hyeongsu performed poorly on his rifle qualification test for the South Korean Army, to the point where he was berated for squandering the government’s bullets. An officer ordered him to do a plank while yelling repeatedly, “I am a tax waster!” In basic training in 2011, Mr. Kim said, other military trainees […]
The millionaire and former real estate mogul Robert A. Durst, 78, is on a ventilator in a Los Angeles hospital after testing positive for Covid-19, days after being sentenced to life in prison for the 2000 murder of his confidante. “We were notified that he tested positive for Covid,” his lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, said on […]
CATANIA, Italy — The mother had prepared everything for the baptism. She dressed her infant son Antonio in a handmade satin suit with tails and a matching cream-colored top hat glittering with rhinestones. She hired the photographers and bought the baby a gold cross. She booked a big buffet lunch for the whole clan at […]
SEOUL — The soldiers were driving back to the South Korean air force base after dinner and drinks on March 2. In the back seat, Master Sgt. Lee Ye-ram could be heard repeatedly begging her male colleague, Master Sgt. Chang Dong-hoon, to stop sexually assaulting her. “Can you please stop it,” she said, according […]
The border closing had an impact even in areas not immediately adjacent to the border, like Ellicottville, N.Y., about 50 miles south of Buffalo, which has long been popular with Canadians looking to ski. The town is home to a bevy of slopes and ski condos, along with resorts advertising their love for their northern […]
A 37-year-old man who the police said was a recent convert to Islam and had shown signs of radicalization was charged on Thursday in connection with a bow-and-arrow rampage in the center of a small mining town in Norway that killed five people. Four women and one man were killed in the assault, which took […]
