Category Archives: World
'Full House' to big house in college scheme? Experts differ
BOSTON - Could Aunt Becky be headed to prison? It could go either way, experts say. Some of the wealthy parents accused of paying bribes to get their kids into top universities may get short stints be...
Mar 21, 2019
Analysis: Victory over Islamic State may be short-lived
WASHINGTON - In a campaign that spanned five years and two U.S. presidencies, unleashed more than 100,000 bombs and killed untold numbers of civilians, the U.S. military engineered the destruction of ...
Mar 21, 2019
Europe offers UK a little more time for Brexit
BRUSSELS - Worn down by three years of indecision in London, European Union leaders on Thursday grudgingly offered the U.K. more time to ease itself out of the bloc, delaying by several weeks - but no...
Mar 21, 2019
Ex-President Temer arrested in Brazil on corruption charges
RIO DE JANEIRO - Former Brazilian President Michel Temer was arrested Thursday on corruption charges, a dramatic development in a sprawling graft probe that has roiled Latin America’s largest na...
Mar 21, 2019
Escaped wallaby goes on walkabout in Dallas neighbourhood
DALLAS - A wallaby who apparently escaped his owners went on a walkabout in an east Dallas neighbourhood before being recaptured. Tim Tiernan said he and his wife were taking a morning walk Wednesday ...
Mar 21, 2019
Daniels: 'Pain and anger' around 'Empire' in recent weeks
LOS ANGELES - “Empire” co-creator and executive producer Lee Daniels says the weeks since cast member Jussie Smollett was arrested and charged with fabricating a racist and homophobic atta...
Mar 21, 2019
K-pop star Jung Joon-young arrested in sex video scandal
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korean police on Thursday arrested K-pop singer Jung Joon-young over allegations that he illegally shared sexually explicit videos of women taken without their knowle...
Mar 21, 2019
Scripts from 'Dick Van Dyke Show' to be digitally preserved
JAMESTOWN, N.Y. - Hollywood producer Carl Reiner and the National Comedy Center say they’re working together to digitally preserve Reiner’s collection of scripts from the 1960’s R...
Mar 21, 2019
First artificial intelligence Google Doodle features Bach
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google is celebrating composer Johann Sebastian Bach with its first artificial intelligence-powered Doodle. Thursday’s animated Google Doodle shows the composer playing a...
Mar 21, 2019
Ferry packed with Iraqis celebrating holiday sinks; 94 die
MOSUL, Iraq - A ferry overloaded with people celebrating the Kurdish new year and Mother’s Day capsized in the Tigris River near the Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, killing nearly 100 people, i...
Mar 21, 2019