Barry Melrose, a hockey player-turned-coach who led the Los Angeles Kings to the 1993 Stanley Cup Final before going on to a long career in broadcasting the sport, has died. He was 70. ESPN announced Melrose’s death Wednesday after his wife informed the network. “From the flowing locks of his distinctive mullet to the flared […]
New Delhi — Calls are growing for an Indian education activist to end his 20-day hunger strike over fears for his safety. Sonam Wangchuk has survived on just salt water in the sweltering heat of India’s capital for almost three weeks after joining a sit-in protest organized by the satirical Cockroach Janta Party to demand reforms […]
A distinguished American marine biologist has been shot dead by three men who entered his house in the central Philippines, police said on Tuesday. Kent Carpenter, 73, was with his Filipina companion in a house in the coastal town of Sibulan, in Negros Oriental province, on Sunday night when the masked men forced their way […]