A first-grade teacher changed my name so it'd be easier to say in English. I've gone by it since.
My real name is Maria Luz, but my teacher changed it to MaryLou. I still go by it decades later because it's part of my identity.
Associated Press15d
Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger over police’s ‘smoke them out’ tactics
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an ...
CNET15d
iOS 18.2 Brings Apple Intelligence Features and More to Your iPhone
Those instructions were a little wonky, telling me to measure out my water and coffee grounds before grinding my coffee beans. Another time, I asked the same thing and Siri gave me a five-step ...
Seeking Alpha16d
AngloGold Ashanti Glitters With Growth After Merger And Market Gold Rush
Today's article initiates my coverage of AngloGold, rating it a buy. The company recently acquired Centamin, which will increase mine production capability, and also has other projects in the ...
CNN17d
Rescuers try to free men trapped in South African gold mine with scores reported dead
The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, where at least 109 men have died, a group representing the miners ...
The New York Times17d
Inside Ukraine’s Last Stand at a Vital Coal Mine
The mine, near the frontline city of Pokrovsk, produced coking coal crucial for Ukraine’s steel industry. It kept running until the very last moment, when Russian forces finally reached its gates.
The Washington Post17d
60 bodies pulled from illegal mine in South Africa; many more trapped
Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people from an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, police pulled out 60 bodies as part of a search-and-rescue ...
BBC17d
No more miners trapped underground in South Africa, volunteers say
No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue teams have said. At least 78 bodies and more than 200 survivors have ...
Associated Press17d
Dozens of survivors and dead pulled from abandoned South African mine as hundreds remain underground
(AP video by Alfonso Nqunjana) A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 14, ...
Los Angeles Times17d
Rescuers bring out survivors and dead from a South African mine as hundreds remain deep underground
STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ... time I spoke to my brother was in July ...