Category Archives: World
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
CBS fires lawyer for social media comment on Las Vegas
NEW YORK - CBS has fired a corporate lawyer who said on social media about the Las Vegas mass shooting that she wasn’t sympathetic because “country music fans often are Republican gun-tote...
Oct 02, 2017
Nobel literature prize: Honoring the elusive 'ideal'
STOCKHOLM - When Alfred Nobel established the literature prize in his name, he perhaps could have benefited from an editor. The terms of his will leave the prize’s exact intentions tantalizingly...
Oct 02, 2017

Refunds in limbo after Lil Wayne skips concert
COLUMBIA, S.C. - The refunds promised to fans of rapper Lil Wayne after he refused to pass through a security check to enter a South Carolina arena and skipped the concert have been thrown into questi...
Oct 02, 2017
Las Vegas attack is deadliest shooting in modern US history
At least 50 people were killed and more than 200 wounded when a gunman opened fire on an outdoor music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Authorities ha...
Oct 02, 2017
Man who killed NFL star's son taking case to high court
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The case of a man serving life in prison for killing the 2-year-old son of NFL running back Adrian Peterson in South Dakota is going before the state Supreme Court. Joseph Patterso...
Oct 02, 2017

Trump sticks to sombre script, refuses to join guns debate
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump stuck to a sombre script Monday after at least 59 people were shot dead in Las Vegas, condemning the largest mass shooting in modern U.S. history as an “act o...
Oct 02, 2017

Google spikes free-article requirements on publishers
NEW YORK - Google is ending a decade-old policy that required publishers to provide some free stories to Google users -though it’s not clear how many readers will even notice, at least for the m...
Oct 02, 2017

Nissan recalls 1.2 million Japan vehicles for re-inspections
TOKYO - Nissan is recalling 1.2 million vehicles in Japan that were produced between October 2014 and September this year to re-inspect them because they had not gone through the proper final checks. ...
Oct 02, 2017

AP sources: US spies in Havana hit by bizarre health attacks
HAVANA - Frightening attacks on U.S. personnel in Havana struck the heart of America’s spy network in Cuba, with intelligence operatives among the first and most severely affected victims, The A...
Oct 02, 2017