Category Archives: CP_World

Las Vegas pot dispensaries offer Black Friday deals
LAS VEGAS - Big-box stores won’t be the only ones offering discounts to shoppers in Las Vegas this Black Friday. Marijuana dispensaries are rolling out deals, too. More than 40 dispensaries in t...
Nov 23, 2017
WWII museum holds extensive Winston Churchill collection
NATICK, Mass. - A Massachusetts museum is touting its collection of Winston Churchill artifacts following the release of a major new biopic about the famous British prime minister. The International M...
Nov 23, 2017
What happens once 'net neutrality' rules bite the dust?
NEW YORK - The Federal Communications Commission formally released a draft of its plan to kill net-neutrality rules , which equalized access to the internet and prevented broadband providers from favo...
Nov 23, 2017

Afghan official: Suicide attack kills 8 people in the east
KABUL - An Afghan official says a suicide attack has killed eight people and wounded 17 in the country’s eastern Nangarhar province. Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor, sa...
Nov 23, 2017
German women's clinic's incense therapy triggers fire alarm
BERLIN - A reported fire in a Hamburg basement turned out to be a false alarm after firefighters determined that the smell of burning came from an alternative therapy being used at a neighbouring gyne...
Nov 23, 2017
Bread made of insects to be sold in Finnish supermarkets
COPENHAGEN - One of Finland’s largest food companies is selling what it claims to be a first: insect bread. Markus Hellstrom, head of the Fazer group’s bakery division, said Thursday that ...
Nov 23, 2017

Argentina reports new clue in search for missing submarine
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina - Ships and planes hunting for a missing Argentine submarine with 44 crew members will return to a previously search area after officials said Wednesday that a noise made a we...
Nov 22, 2017

Cold War drama caught on video as N. Korean soldier escapes
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - It’s 3:11 p.m. on a cold, grey day on the North Korean side of the most heavily armed border in the world, and a lone soldier is racing toward freedom. His dark olive...
Nov 22, 2017

George Avakian, jazz producer and scholar, dies at 98
NEW YORK - George Avakian, a Russian-born jazz scholar and architect of the American music industry who produced essential recordings by Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and other stars has died at age 98...
Nov 22, 2017

Ships, aircraft search Philippine Sea for 3 missing in crash
TOKYO - U.S. and Japanese ships and aircraft were searching in the Philippine Sea on Thursday for three sailors missing since a U.S. Navy aircraft crashed a day earlier. Eight people were rescued abou...
Nov 22, 2017