Category Archives: World
Nobel Prize winner Malala visits her Pakistan hometown
MINGORA, Pakistan - Pakistan’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai returned to her hometown Saturday for the first time since receiving a gunshot wound to the head there in 2012 for her wo...
Mar 30, 2018
US says Security Council approves new sanctions on NKorea
WASHINGTON - The United States said Friday it has secured the support of the U.N. Security Council for a new package of sanctions designations that target smuggling at sea by North Korea. Ambassador N...
Mar 30, 2018
Actress Stacey Dash withdraws from California House race
LOS ANGELES - Actress turned conservative commentator Stacey Dash ended her campaign for a Southern California congressional seat on Friday, about a month after it began. The “Clueless” st...
Mar 30, 2018
Colin Trevorrow will be back to direct "Jurassic World 3"
LOS ANGELES - Colin Trevorrow will be back among the dinosaurs as he returns to the director’s chair for the third installment of the “Jurassic World” franchise. Executive producer S...
Mar 30, 2018
Texan accused of throwing toddler son out 3rd story window
AUSTIN, Texas - Investigators say a Central Texas man has been arrested after a neighbour reported seeing him throw his 2-year-old son out a third-story window. Travis County jail records show 32-year...
Mar 30, 2018
2 British IS members say hostage beheadings were a 'mistake'
KOBANI, Syria - Two British militants believed to have been part of an Islamic State group cell notorious for beheading hostages in Syria were unapologetic in their first interview since their capture...
Mar 30, 2018
North Carolina 'bathroom bill' saga lingers in election year
RALEIGH, N.C. - North Carolina is again an attractive location for big out-of-state corporations. The state no longer sits squarely in the crosshairs of culture wars over transgender rights. College b...
Mar 30, 2018
Rosa Parks house to be shown, after trans-Atlantic odyssey
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The small, tired house with peeling white paint once served as a refuge for Rosa Parks in Detroit. It has travelled across the world and back in an odyssey conceived by an artist an...
Mar 30, 2018
Widow of Orlando nightclub gunman is acquitted in the attack
The widow of the gunman who slaughtered 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was acquitted Friday of helping to plot the attack and lying to the FBI afterward - a rare and stinging defeat...
Mar 30, 2018
Devotees nailed to crosses on Good Friday in Philippines
SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines - Seven Filipino Roman Catholic devotees, including a woman, were nailed to wooden crosses in a Good Friday reenactment of Jesus Christ’s suffering that was watched ...
Mar 30, 2018