Super Typhoon Mangkhut has reached the Philippines, blasting the northern coast with strong winds and heavy rain. Forecasters say the typhoon, with winds of 205km/h (130 mph) and gusts of up to 255 km/h, is the strongest storm of 2018 so far. More than four million people are directly in the path of the storm […]

WASHINGTON – Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign, pleaded guilty Friday to two felony conspiracy charges and reached an agreement to provide “complete cooperation” with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Manafort’s plea deal brings investigators further into the president’s inner circle of advisers and added another conviction to their […]

Outer edges of Florence, now Category 1 storm, reach North Carolina with centre of hurricane expected to hit on Friday. The outer reaches of Hurricane Florence began lashing coastal North Carolina with heavy winds and flooded roads on Thursday ahead of an expected landfall that will bring walls of water and lingering downpours to parts […]

The storm’s centre was about 180km east of Wilmington, North Carolina, at 2pm local time (18:00 GMT) but tropical storm-strength winds and heavy rains already were hitting North Carolina’s Outer Banks barrier islands. The main highway in the Outer Banks was closed in parts as seawater pushed in. Flooding from rain and rising rivers also […]

Hurricane Florence, which is nearing the US East Coast, could kill “a lot of people”, officials warn. Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) administrator Brock Long said storm surges may bring catastrophic flooding to inland areas. Though Florence has been downgraded to a category two storm with 105mph (165km/h) winds, Mr Long said it remained “very […]

Urban scapes significantly impact communities at large; however, their effects often go unnoticed. For minorities and race-conscious individuals, this begs an important question: how obvious, and how extensive, is the urban designer’s ability to manipulate the racial divide? As a minority and designer (though not of the urban variety), I was curious to see the […]

With 34 years of industry experience, our signage chefs know the right ingredients for designing and deploying a digital masterpiece. So, what’s the recipe for our success?  Add one cup of content design, one tablespoon, of animation, a teaspoon of preparation and planning, and a custom enclosure. Much like you would with a roux, you must […]

Adobe Systems Inc (ADBE.O), the maker of image-editing software Photoshop, is in negotiations to buy Marketo Inc, a privately held cloud-based marketing software company, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal would boost Adobe’s cloud-based software offerings as it takes on larger peers Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Oracle Corp (ORCL.N). Marketo offers business-to-business […]

Moscow -Two Russians accused of a nerve agent attack in the UK have admitted they visited the city where the assault took place, but say the purpose of their brief trip was to visit its historic cathedral, and not to poison a former double agent who happened to live there. When the men identified as […]

Tropical Storm Olivia made landfall Wednesday on Hawaii’s island of Maui, passed south of Oahu and weakened as it dumped moderate to heavy rain that flooded roads. A tropical storm warning was canceled for Oahu and Maui County. The storm, which also passed over Lanai, had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and was moving […]