Category Archives: World
Italy's health minister sacks public health advisers
ROME - Italy’s health minister has removed 30 doctors and scientists from the ministry’s public health advisory committee as part of the “government of change” promised by the ...
Dec 04, 2018
Brie Larson packs punch in 'Captain Marvel' trailer
LOS ANGELES - Brie Larson packs a punch in the first female-led “Captain Marvel” film. Marvel Studios unveiled the second trailer for the upcoming superhero film during “Monday Night...
Dec 04, 2018
'Nutcracker' prince proposes to stunned Dewdrop Fairy
WICHITA, Kan. - The prince in the “Nutcracker” had a special present for his favourite ballerina during a performance of the holiday classic in Kansas. The Wichita Eagle reports that Allis...
Dec 04, 2018
Climate talks shift to nitty-gritty details of Paris accord
KATOWICE, Poland - Negotiators at the U.N. climate talks got down to the nitty-gritty task Tuesday of finalizing the rules for the Paris accord, a landmark agreement by countries three years ago to cu...
Dec 04, 2018
New parasite decimates giant clam species in Mediterranean
ANAVYSSOS, Greece - With rapid efficiency, a mysterious parasite is seeking out and killing a giant species of clam found only in the Mediterranean Sea. Unless scientists can find a way of stopping it...
Dec 04, 2018
UK: Royal protection officer accused of messaging teenager
LONDON - A police officer assigned to protect Britain’s royal family is not contesting allegations that he acted improperly by sending suggestive text messages to a teenage girl visiting a Bucki...
Dec 04, 2018
Pete Davidson addresses bullying after Ariana Grande breakup
NEW YORK - Pete Davidson says he’s not going to “kill myself.” Davidson is breaking his silence in an Instagram post following his short-lived engagement with Ariana Grande. The 25-y...
Dec 04, 2018
Macron caves in to French protesters - too late, they say
PARIS - The French government caved in after Paris’ worst rioting in decades and delayed an increase in energy taxes Tuesday - but it was seen as “too little, too late” by many prote...
Dec 04, 2018
Rich sex offender Epstein settles 1 suit, but more to come
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A decade ago, Florida financier Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to sex crimes involving underage girls and got 13 months behind bars. What the public and his accusers didn’...
Dec 04, 2018
Honduras mother waits for migrant son missing en route to US
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras - Haydee Posadas had waited eight years for her son to come home. On the last night of her long vigil, she was too agitated to sleep. Her son had fled Honduras for the U.S. in...
Dec 04, 2018