When you think of symphonic music, the human voice may not be the first instrument that comes to mind. Yet it plays a major role in the Las Vegas Philharmonic’s Saturday season opener, with soprano Maria Valdes joining the orchestra for not one but two of the concert’s three selections.
The Federal Aviation Administration is planning a new proposal for unmanned aircraft to fly over crowds, the head of the FAA told a group in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
On Thursday, a rocket is set to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer to rendezvous with an asteroid called Bennu and then return with samples of the alien rock.
Authorities searched in the Bahamas for a U.S. citizen who went overboard from a cruise ship before dawn Wednesday.
Three people died Wednesday after two small airplanes collided in midair at a rural airport in western Georgia, where one witness told authorities the pilots may have been trying to land at the same time.
Apple drew back the curtain on the iPhone 7, revealing several expected changes — including water-resistant features and the absence of a dedicated headset jack — marking an evolution rather than a stunning breakthrough for the flagship smartphone line.
Out of golf for more than a year, Tiger Woods said Wednesday he hopes to play the first event of the PGA Tour season next month and could play as much as twice more before the end of the year.
Will the Panthers, who open at Denver on Thursday, feel the hangover from being Super Bowl losers? Cam Newton led Carolina to a surprising 15-1 season.
A train went off the tracks south of Egypt’s capital, Cairo, on Wednesday, killing five people, according to the Health Ministry.
Britain hopes a 13-foot-high concrete wall will succeed where security guards and barbed wire have failed and stop migrants reaching the United Kingdom from the northern French port of Calais.
Based on Charles Dickens’ final, incomplete novel, “Edwin Drood” offers audiences not one or two but three chances to influence the play’s outcome.
Hurricane Newton swept onto the Gulf of California after slamming the resorts of southern Baja and headed on a path expected to take it to the Mexican mainland by Wednesday morning and then on to the U.S. border with potentially dangerous rains for Arizona and New Mexico.
When the UFC returns to Mexico City on Nov. 5, Kelvin Gastelum will face Jorge Masvidal. Gastelum was hoping to secure a bout with former welterweight champion Robbie Lawler or Donald Cerrone next.
After competing in pageants for generations in the closet or working behind the scenes, gays and lesbians finally get to see one of their own take one of pageantry’s biggest stages.
Prosecutors said Tuesday that they want 13 other women who said they were intoxicated when Bill Cosby assaulted them to testify at his upcoming felony sex assault trial.
