Category Archives: World
Book's challenge: Can you do squats like Justice Ginsburg?
WASHINGTON - Personal trainer Bryant Johnson hears it all the time: Four more years. That’s how long fans of his client, 84-year-old Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, tell him he has to...
Oct 17, 2017
Sweet Surrender: Detroit-area man arrested with doughnuts
REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - A 21-year-old man wanted for probation violations surrendered at a suburban Detroit police station - with a dozen doughnuts for officers. The sweet gesture didn’t help ...
Oct 17, 2017
Roman Polanski in Poland for documentary on his early life
WARSAW, Poland - A Polish film company said Tuesday that Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski has travelled to Poland to appear in a documentary about his early life during the Holocaust and after th...
Oct 17, 2017
George Saunders is bookies' favourite for Man Booker prize
LONDON - American author George Saunders is the bookmakers’ favourite to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with his novel of the afterlife, “Lincoln in the Bardo....
Oct 17, 2017
$12M parking, shopping renovations for Grand Ole Opry House
NASHVILLE - The iconic Grand Ole Opry House in Tennessee’s capital city will undergo a $12 million expansion to add parking, larger retail space and an enhanced area for backstage tours. The upd...
Oct 17, 2017
F-18 military jet crashes outside of Madrid, killing pilot
MADRID - An F-18 fighter jet crashed Tuesday at an air base outside Madrid, killing its pilot, the Spanish Defence Ministry said. A ministry spokesman said the jet crashed at the Torrejon de Ardoz bas...
Oct 17, 2017
Michelle Yeoh: Weinstein a 'bully,' 'not always honourable'
HONG KONG - Actress Michelle Yeoh said Tuesday that she was aware of Harvey Weinstein’s reputation and would have unleashed “years of martial arts training” on the fallen Hollywood m...
Oct 17, 2017
Elton John ending Las Vegas residency in 2018
LAS VEGAS - Elton John will be pushing back from his piano at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for the last time next year. John’s last performance of his show “The Million Dollar Piano” ...
Oct 17, 2017
Attorney: Convicted tax schemer is too fat for prison
TAMPA, Fla. - The attorney for a 72-year-old Florida man who was convicted in a tax scheme is using obesity to try to keep his client out of prison. Curtis Fallgatter wrote in a court filing on Monday...
Oct 17, 2017
Russia: Formal complaint made over gay crackdown in Chechnya
MOSCOW - A gay Russian man accused authorities in Chechnya on Monday of jailing and beating him as part of a broad crackdown on LGBT people. Maxim Lapunov said during a news conference that unidentifi...
Oct 17, 2017