Lacquerware maker Takaho Shoji hunches over his desk in the disaster-hit city of Wajima in central Japan, applying another layer of coating to a dark, wooden box. One brushstroke at a time, the ...
In a remote Alaskan community where polar bears roam, a loaf of bread costs more than $9, a carton of orange juice costs nearly $10 and a box of cereal tops $11. Grant Magdanz, 30, recently ...
A TOP doctor has described how she watched her son die from sepsis at the hospital where she works. William Hewes died aged 22 at Homerton Hospital in January last year within 24 hours of being ...
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Alaska Air stock (NYSE: ALK) is up nearly 20% in this month after the company raised its Q4 outlook. Alaska now expects its Q4 earnings to be in the range of $0.40 and $0.50 per share, versus its ...
A senior doctor has said she witnessed her ill son “receiving inadequate care” at the hospital where she works before he died. William Hewes died aged 22 at Homerton Hospital in January last ...
No one lives there now, and the U.S. National Park Service monitors access. At the very end of Alaska's Aleutian Island chain, Attu is the westernmost territory of the United States—so far west ...