Category Archives: World

HOUSTON - The winner of the 1995 Miss Universe crown has died following a long-term illness. KTRK-TV cites a statement by the family of Chelsi Smith that says the pageant winner died Saturday at 45 ye...

KABUL - Taliban insurgents launched separate attacks on Afghan security forces in the country’s north, killing at least 52, provincial officials said Monday. Mohammad Yusouf Ayubi, head of the p...

BEIJING - Jack Ma, who founded e-commerce giant Alibaba Group and helped launch China’s online retailing boom, announced Monday that he will step down as the company’s chairman next Septem...

NEW YORK - Bejeweled bodices, thigh-high platform pumps, stiletto nails and seductive fishnet stockings brought a new level of femme fatale among Disney villains onto the catwalk. The catwalk of the d...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - The first woman to win the Miss America crown without having to don a swimsuit says she’s glad she didn’t have to. Nia Imani Franklin, who won the title Sunday night ...

NEW YORK - NBC’s live version of “Jesus Christ Superstar” has won an Emmy Award and that has made two men extra happy - it means star John Legend, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and ly...

NEW YORK - The #MeToo movement fighting sexual misconduct had already claimed one of Hollywood’s top movie moguls in Harvey Weinstein. Now it has done the same for Leslie Moonves, one of the tel...

DENVER - Colin Kaepernick called them his brothers. Dolphins teammates Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson were the only two players to kneel during the national anthem on the NFL’s opening Sunday, a...

LOS ANGELES - Stand Up To Cancer says its sixth celebrity-filled telethon was its most successful yet. The organization said Sunday that the fundraiser received more than $123 million in pledges from ...

TORONTO - Actress Olivia Munn says she has found little support from some of her “Predator” co-stars and director after a Los Angeles Times report revealed that Twentieth Century Fox had r...