Category Archives: World
Millie Bobby Brown deletes Twitter account over memes
LOS ANGELES - “Stranger Things” actress Millie Bobby Brown has deleted her Twitter account after users posted memes depicting her as homophobic. The memes featured photos of the 14-year-ol...
Jun 14, 2018
Drake 'I'm Upset' video features 'Degrassi' reunion
LOS ANGELES - Drake is having a Degrassi Community School reunion. The rapper played Jimmy Brooks in the Canadian teen drama, and a video released Wednesday night for his single “I’m Upset...
Jun 14, 2018
Argentine Congress OKs elective abortion; now goes to Senate
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The lower house of Argentina’s congress on Thursday approved a bill that would legalize elective abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, sending the measure to the...
Jun 14, 2018
'Fun, Fun, Fun:' Beach Boys team up with Royal Philharmonic
LONDON - Summer is coming and the season in Britain is being marked by a return to the airwaves of the Beach Boys’ “Fun, Fun, Fun” with a new version featuring the Royal Philharmonic...
Jun 14, 2018
Kardashian West, woman Trump freed say they won't stop now
SOUTHHAVEN, Miss. - Kim Kardashian West and Alice Marie Johnson, the woman President Donald Trump freed from life in federal prison, say they won’t stop advocating for other people serving long ...
Jun 14, 2018
US retail sales boom in May, but inflation is lurking
WASHINGTON - U.S. retail sales rose by the most in six months in May, a sign that confident consumers are leading a strong economic rebound after a slow start to the year. Yet with high gas prices and...
Jun 14, 2018
At 45, El Hadary offers a World Cup tale of tenacity
MOSCOW - Egypt’s 45-year-old goalkeeper Essam El Hadary says he feels like he’s 20 again. “I have dealt with three generations of players, each one of them was different,” El H...
Jun 14, 2018
Greek lawmakers mull no-confidence vote over Macedonia name
ATHENS, Greece - Greek lawmakers debated a no-confidence motion against the government Friday over its tentative agreement to end a decades-old dispute with neighbouring Macedonia over that country...
Jun 14, 2018
Prosecutor: Man makes deadly toxin for an attack in Germany
BERLIN - German authorities have thwarted a plot by a Tunisian man who created the deadly toxin ricin using castor bean seeds and planned to use the poison in an Islamic extremist attack in Germany, f...
Jun 14, 2018
Romanian drama: the mayor, the soprano and the champion
BUCHAREST, Romania - Romania is gripped by a political soap opera featuring French Open tennis champion Simona Halep, a world-famous soprano and the mayor of Bucharest. Following Halep’s win in ...
Jun 14, 2018