Category Archives: World
China pledges strong growth as Xi bids to rule indefinitely
BEIJING - China’s government pledged Monday to deliver robust growth, pursue advanced technology and boost military spending while urging the public to embrace President Xi Jinping’s rule ...
Mar 04, 2018
Drama in red and neutrals on Oscars red carpet
Looks in neutrals, reds and purples brought the drama Sunday on the Oscars carpet, along with a healthy dose of shiny gold, but Nicole Kidman stood out in stunning cobalt blue at Hollywood’s big...
Mar 04, 2018
No. 2 spender China to boost defence spending in 2018
BEIJING - China’s defence budget will rise 8.1 per cent to 1.1 trillion yuan ($173 billion) this year as the country prepares to launch its second aircraft carrier, integrate stealth fighters in...
Mar 04, 2018
Prosecutors push judge to let other Cosby accusers testify
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Bill Cosby made his first court appearance of the #MeToo era on Monday as defence lawyers tried without success to get his sexual assault case thrown out, then turned their attention...
Mar 04, 2018
'Shape of Water' triumphs at an Oscars awash in change
LOS ANGELES - Against all odds, love won out at the 90th Academy Awards. Guillermo del Toro’s lavish, full-hearted monster romance “The Shape of Water” swam away with best picture at...
Mar 04, 2018
Investigation: Drug enhanced Wiggins performance in Tour win
LONDON - Bradley Wiggins used a banned powerful corticosteroid to enhance his performance while preparing to win the Tour de France in 2012, a British parliamentary committee said in a doping investig...
Mar 04, 2018
1906 film of San Francisco after quake found at flea market
SAN FRANCISCO - More than a century after San Francisco’s deadly 1906 earthquake, a film reel with nine minutes of footage capturing the city two weeks after the devastation surfaced at a flea m...
Mar 04, 2018
Roger Bannister, who broke the 4-minute mile, dies at 88
LONDON - Roger Bannister, who as a lanky medical student at Oxford in 1954 electrified the sports world and lifted postwar England’s spirits when he became the first athlete to run a mile in und...
Mar 04, 2018
'Black Panther' is box-office king for third straight week
LOS ANGELES - Wakanda’s reign over America shows no signs of waning. “Black Panther” is king of the U.S. box office for the third straight weekend. Studio estimates Sunday say the Ma...
Mar 04, 2018
Allegations about 40 gay priests in Italy sent to Vatican
VATICAN CITY - The archdiocese of Naples says it has sent the Vatican a 1,200-page dossier compiled by a male escort identifying 40 actively gay priests and seminarians in Italy. In a statement on the...
Mar 04, 2018