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Man travels the world in a revamped ambulance
Ian Dow is living his best life — out of an ambulance. The nomad, from Newport Beach, California, revamped the unconventional wheels to travel the world. He said he was inspired to buy the ambulance after getting in a motorcycle accident. “I’d been searching for a van to convert and was blinded by the Sprinter fad,” Dow, 33, wrote to ABC News of the trendy Mercedes van. “After getting burned by a Craigslist seller — he backed out after I drove 12 hours to buy his Sprinter — I was Read More
Emerging markets to lure over $1 trillion in foreign investment in 2017: IIF
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Emerging markets will draw $1.1 trillion of capital flows from non-resident investors this year, the Institute of International Finance said in a report released on Tuesday, ramping up its estimates from earlier this year as a result of increasing global risk appetite and economic growth. It will mark the first time since 2014 that the asset class will see more than $1 trillion of capital flows from foreign investors. The group also projects investment will grow to $1.2 trillion in 2018 as growth continues. “With global
Read MoreGeneva toilets flush with cash
GENEVA (Reuters) – Geneva prosecutors are investigating after toilets in a bank and three restaurants were blocked by about $100,000 in high-denomination euro banknotes, they said on Monday. “We are not so interested in the motive but we want to be sure of the origin of the money,” spokesman Vincent Derouand said, adding that neither throwing money away nor blocking a toilet was a crime. The Tribune de Geneve newspaper, which first reported the unusual deposit, said the first blockage occurred in the toilet serving the vault at UBS bank
Read MoreFlip-flop glamor at Michael Kors Spring 2018
NEW YORK (Reuters) – For fashion designer Michael Kors, life is a beach even in New York City. The former “Project Runway” reality television show judge’s Spring 2018 collection reflected this philosophy on Wednesday, the final day of New York Fashion Week. Movie stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and Nicole Kidman sat in the front row of Kors’ show as singer Sara Bareilles serenaded the audience. Models in colorful ensembles of breezy shirts, wide-legged trousers and flowing palm-print dresses drifted down the catwalk. Flip-flops largely finished the look that Kors called “barefoot Read More
Nadal’s shadow no hindrance for Spaniard Carreno Busta
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta said playing in the shadow of Rafael Nadal, his country’s most celebrated player, has helped to keep the pressure off him as he has quietly advanced to the semi-finals of the U.S. Open. The softly-spoken 12th seed has yet to drop a set in the tournament having benefited from a kind draw. He did not face a seeded player until Tuesday’s encounter with world number 33, Diego Schwartzman, who he dispatched in straight sets to reach the last four. “Of course if Read More
Jeff Immelt says not pursuing Uber CEO job
(Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc’s [UBER.UL] field of candidates for a new chief executive officer narrowed further on Sunday when Jeff Immelt, chairman of General Electric Co, said he was no longer in the running for the top leadership position. Uber’s board of directors has been searching for a new CEO since June, when investors forced out co-founder Travis Kalanick following months of criticism over his leadership abilities. Immelt was among three finalists for the job at the ride-services company, according to sources close to the situation. “I have decided Read More
Trump drops plan to create infrastructure council: White House – world news headlines from reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has abandoned plans to create an infrastructure advisory council, the White House said on Thursday, the day after two other advisory groups were dismantled over the furor caused by Trump’s remarks on white supremacists. “The President’s Advisory Council on Infrastructure, which was still being formed, will not move forward,” a White House official said. The decision to drop the planned council was first reported by Bloomberg. Trump signed an executive order last month establishing the council, with members to be drawn from real
Read MoreCrocodile rock: ancient beast named after Motörhead band’s Lemmy – world news headlines from reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A ferocious sea-going crocodile that menaced coastal waters about 164 million years ago during the Jurassic Period has been given a name honoring the similarly ferocious heavy-metal rocker Lemmy, the late front man for the British band Motörhead. Scientists said on Wednesday they have named the 19-foot-long (5.8 meters) reptile Lemmysuchus, meaning “Lemmy’s crocodile.” Its fossils were unearthed near the eastern English city of Peterborough in 1909 and were recently re-examined and determined to be a distinct genus in need of a name. Its enlongated, narrow snout Read More