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CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA, United States (Reuters) — A locomotive on an Amtrak train carrying about 330 passengers derailed when it hit a backhoe south of Philadelphia on Sunday (April 3), killing two people and injuring about 35 in what passengers described as a jolt followed by a fireball. The accident in Chester, Pennsylvania, about 15 miles (25 km) southwest of Philadelphia, was the latest in a series involving the U.S. passenger rail carrier and occurred a […]
INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — Singer Taylor Swift was the big winner at the iHeartRadio awards on Sunday (April 3), taking home Album of the Year for her best-selling “1989”, as well as Female Artist of the Year and Best Tour at the iHeartRadio music awards. Accepting the award for Best Tour for her seven-month “1989 World Tour,” Swift thanked her boyfriend, DJ Calvin Harris, whose given name is Adam Wiles. “You know, for […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) – Only half of the tickets have been sold so far, though it is four months to go before the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, said Philip Wilkinson, spokesman for 2016 Rio Olympics, on Saturday. He also said that the ticket sales for the Paralympic Games is worse, with only 12 percent being sold. Brazil’s new Sports Minister Ricardo Leyser, who just took office last week, said they were […]
NEAR VAN HORN, TEXAS, United States (Reuters) — Jeff Bezos’ space transportation company Blue Origin successfully launched and landed for the third time a suborbital rocket capable of carrying six passengers, taking another step on its path in developing reusable boosters, the company said on Saturday (April 2). The New Shepard rocket and capsule blasted off from a launch site in West Texas on Saturday at an undisclosed time, and landed minutes later back […]
Month of April is Hemophilia Awareness Month Hemophilia is a genetic disease in which the blood will not clot properly because a specific clotting factor is missing or defective. It is almost exclusively a male disease, affecting one of every four thousand live male births, regardless of race, nationality, or family economic status. Infographics design by Dexter Magno Research by Amabelle Lopez
By Caesar Vallejos Eagle News online correspondent (Eagle News) — Internationally recognized wealth coach JT Foxx is in Manila to share breakthrough marketing and branding concepts to Philippine businesses. In a talk at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Foxx analyzed and shared the marketing campaigns of the world’s greatest brands including Google, Apple, Amazon, Starbucks and Coca-Cola to a number of businessmen and entrepreneurs. “There are so many small businesses in the Philippines and the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (April 4) – This is a movie about friendship. And that may be the reason why fans are griping about the latest opus by Zack Snyder. Long awaited, not just by DC fans, all over the world, “Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice” broke all records at its premiere as a certified international box office hit. Always, there is a risk in making a movie about a much beloved franchise. Fans have […]
MALACANANG said the government is ready to assist Filipino fishermen who were reported to have been detained by Eritrean authorities after they ventured in Eritrean waters from Saudi Arabia. In a radio interview over dzRB Radyo ng Bayan, Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said the Department of Foreign Affairs is still verifying the incident and has not received official information from the ground. “Patuloy ang isinasagawang beripikasyon ng ating pamahalaan sa nasabing ulat. Ayon sa […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (April 4)-THE Cultural Center of the Philippines, in collaboration with the Berlin-based Modern Art Ensemble, presents Manila-born composer Jeffrey Ching’s A Chamber Requiem on April 9, 2016 at the CCP Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (Little Theater) at 7:30pm. Guest soloists are Berlin-trained Spanish-Philippine soprano Andión Fernández and German bass-baritone Lars Grünwoldt, accompanied by the Modern Art Ensemble. Jeffrey Ching has realized his own, highly personal vision of the famous Requiem Mass left unfinished […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United Sates (AFP) — Orders for the much-hyped Tesla Model 3, a cheaper version of its electric car aimed at the mass market, have surged to 276,000 in just three days, company founder Elon Musk said Sunday. Orders are piling up fast and exceeding the expectations of the company for its Model 3 — which will have a base price of $35,000 — even though it won’t be available until late next year. […]
KEY WEST, Florida (Reuters) — An artificial reef in the Florida Keys has become a temporary gallery for a sub sea art exhibition. Video released on Sunday (April 3) by the Florida Keys News Bureau shows divers hanging artwork on the 523-foot Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the world’s second-largest artificial reef located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary about seven miles south of Key West. Over the weekend, divers installed a dozen photo […]
REUTERS — This headset turns the vibrations from your jawbone into sound. Swedish company Invisio says it allows wearers to communicate clearly even if they were standing in front of a roaring jet engine. The in-ear device is positioned so it just touches the jawbone, with user’s voice transmitted up the bone to the microphone and then sent to the radio. “It’s a bone conduction technology that we use for voice pick-up and we […]
