Category Archives: World
The Oscars' most intimate celebrity moments occur off-camera
LOS ANGELES - There are cameras everywhere at the Academy Awards, but some of the most intimate celebrity moments at the show still manage to escape the lens. Here’s a look at some of the backst...
Mar 05, 2018
Stars let loose at Oscar parties marking awards season's end
LOS ANGELES - Greta Gerwig screamed with delight and relief as she hugged a group of friends once she got into the Vanity Fair Oscar party. The “Lady Bird” director and Oscar nominee had j...
Mar 05, 2018
Merkel welcomes German govt deal, wants to dive into work
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday welcomed the Social Democrats’ vote in favour of a new ruling coalition and said “it’s important that as government we start quickl...
Mar 05, 2018
90th Oscars dance between honouring and correcting the past
LOS ANGELES - Held one year ago, the 90th Academy Awards would have very likely been a rose-colored nostalgia fest. But this year, with a culture-wide reckoning over decades of sexual misconduct, a fi...
Mar 05, 2018
Italy's populist parties rule the day, but will they rule?
ROME - Italy’s voters have spoken, and the populists ruled the day. But whether these euroskeptics can put aside their distrust and rivalries to rule together was the big question Monday as the ...
Mar 04, 2018
Stink strait: New Mexico town battling growing skunk crisis
HAGERMAN, N.M. - Something stinks in one southeastern New Mexico town and residents want police on the case. KRQE-TV in Albuquerque reports skunk smell is plaguing the town of Hagerman, New Mexico, th...
Mar 04, 2018
Gary Oldman does Winston Churchill proud with Oscar victory
LOS ANGELES - Gary Oldman did Winston Churchill proud. Oldman’s performance as the indomitable British statesman in “Darkest Hour” earned the best actor Oscar on Sunday, capping his ...
Mar 04, 2018
Common singles out NRA, Kimmel takes aim at Trump at Oscars
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood seized the microphone at Sunday’s Oscars and wasn’t shy about its passions, sprinkling political moments throughout a show that included anti-gun and pro-immigratio...
Mar 04, 2018
'The Shape of Water' wins best picture Oscar
LOS ANGELES - The Cold War fantasy film “The Shape of Water” is the winner of the best picture Academy Award. Director Guillermo del Toro’s film has been considered one of the front-...
Mar 04, 2018
Partial list of winners for the 90th Academy Awards
Partial list of winners for the 90th Academy Awards presented Sunday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missour...
Mar 04, 2018