Category Archives: World
Robot conducts tenor Bocelli, orchestra in Pisa
PISA, Italy - Tenor Andrea Bocelli has brought down the house at Pisa’s Teatro Verdi by performing with an unusual conductor: a robot. The white, two-armed YuMi robot, designed by the Swiss comp...
Sep 13, 2017

Florida nun dons habit, grabs chain saw to help after Irma
MIAMI - A Florida nun is pitching in on the cleanup efforts following Hurricane Irma by taking a chain saw to downed trees while dressed in her full habit. Miami-Dade police posted video of Sister Mar...
Sep 13, 2017
Self-driving boats: The next tech transportation race
BOSTON - Self-driving cars may not hit the road in earnest for many years – but autonomous boats could be just around the pier. Spurred in part by the car industry’s race to build driverle...
Sep 13, 2017
Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli has bail revoked, heads to jail
NEW YORK - A judge jailed former pharmaceuticals company CEO Martin Shkreli on Wednesday after finding that he violated his bail on a securities fraud conviction with a social media posting she agreed...
Sep 13, 2017
Detained university janitor, in US 11 years, awaits his fate
BOSTON - Francisco Rodriguez-Guardado’s first son was born just days after he was taken into custody by federal immigration officials for deportation back to his native El Salvador. He has yet t...
Sep 13, 2017
German right-wing party on course to enter parliament
PFORZHEIM, Germany - A nationalist party that wants Germany to close its borders to migrants, give up the euro and end sanctions against Russia is predicted to enter parliament for the first time, pro...
Sep 13, 2017
Rights group blasts Israeli banks for settlement expansion
JERUSALEM - Israeli banks are contributing to the proliferation of West Bank settlements by providing loans and mortgages for construction there, violating their human rights obligations, Human Rights...
Sep 13, 2017

Tunisian women's rights plan rattles Muslim traditionalists
TUNIS, Tunisia - Some denounce it as a violation of Islamic law, others embrace it as revolutionary: An initiative by Tunisia’s president to make inheritance and marriage rules fairer to women i...
Sep 13, 2017
From India to Malaysia, Rohingya face hardship, uncertainty
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Recent violence in Myanmar has driven hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to seek refuge across the border in Bangladesh. But Rohingya have been fleeing persecution in B...
Sep 13, 2017
History of Syria's war at risk as YouTube reins in content
BEIRUT - Syria’s civil war has been one of the modern world’s most brutal conflicts and one of its most heavily filmed. Hundreds of thousands of amateur videos uploaded to YouTube document...
Sep 13, 2017