Category Archives: World
Kurdish leader Talabani, onetime hope for Iraqi unity, dies
IRBIL, Iraq - As he stepped into office in 2005 to become Iraq’s first Kurdish president, Jalal Talabani told his followers, “I am casting off my Kurdish clothes and wearing Iraqi ones ins...
Oct 03, 2017
Families detail victims' lives: 'Nothing but good memories'
A son remembered a mother’s laugh. Elementary school employees wore red, white and blue to honour a beloved receptionist. A wife recalled her husband’s ultimate devotion: losing his life t...
Oct 03, 2017
The Latest: Nobel-winning scientists laud each other, team
STOCKHOLM - The Latest on the Nobel Physics Prize (all times local): 8:30 p.m. The two California scientists sharing this year’s Nobel Physics Prize credited each other and their third partner, ...
Oct 03, 2017
Vegas gunman transferred $100K, set up cameras at hotel room
LAS VEGAS - The Las Vegas gunman transferred $100,000 overseas in the days before the attack and planned the massacre so meticulously that he even set up cameras inside the peephole of his high-rise h...
Oct 03, 2017
Late-night TV hosts decry Las Vegas killings, gun laws
LOS ANGELES - Late-night comics decried the Las Vegas mass shooting as a confounding and repetitive American tragedy, with Jimmy Kimmel and Trevor Noah lashing out at politicians who oppose gun contro...
Oct 03, 2017
Tom Petty, down-to-Earth rock superstar, dies at 66
Tom Petty, an old-fashioned rock superstar and everyman who drew upon the Byrds, the Beatles and other bands he worshipped as a boy and produced new classics such as “Free Fallin,'” “...
Oct 03, 2017
Ties threatened: US orders 15 Cuban diplomats to leave
WASHINGTON - The United States expelled 15 of Cuba’s diplomats Tuesday to protest its failure to protect Americans from unexplained attacks in Havana, plunging diplomatic ties between the countr...
Oct 03, 2017
Ecuador court orders vice-president jailed in graft probe
QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuador’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered the jailing of Vice-President Jorge Glas while he is investigated for allegedly taking bribes from a Brazilian construction giant invol...
Oct 02, 2017
Initial erroneous Tom Petty death reports cause confusion
LOS ANGELES - For several hours Monday, music lovers believed Tom Petty was dead. Courtney Love, Talib Kweli, Kid Rock, Cyndi Lauper, Paul Stanley and Lin-Manuel Miranda were among scores of fans post...
Oct 02, 2017
Stella McCartney takes on the '80s at Paris Fashion Week
PARIS - Boundless ideas with 80s daring were the expansive spirit of Stella McCartney’s accomplished collection at Paris Fashion Week. The acid styles had some front-row celebrities recalling th...
Oct 02, 2017