Category Archives: World

Spotify's music service seeks to drum up $1 billion in IPO
SAN FRANCISCO - Music-streaming pioneer Spotify is hoping to attract a new crowd of fans on Wall Street to help fend off a growing competitive threat posed by Apple. Spotify will expand its financial ...
Feb 28, 2018
Brazil mail implements security tax for deliveries in Rio
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil’s state-run postal service says it will start charging extra to deliver letters and packages in Rio de Janeiro due to a wave of wave of violence in the state. Correios sa...
Feb 28, 2018
Russia and Syria clash with US and West on Syria cease-fire
Russia and Syria clashed with the U.S. and its Western allies Wednesday over responsibility for the failure of a cease-fire to take hold in Syria as the U.N. said humanitarian convoys are ready to hea...
Feb 28, 2018
McCain's daughter says Trump's reference to dad was hurtful
NEW YORK - Sen. John McCain’s daughter Meghan says it was incredibly hurtful to see President Trump talk about her father at a conservative conference last week, where the president talked about...
Feb 28, 2018
Lawyer for ex-top aide to Cuomo mocks bribery prosecution
NEW YORK - A lawyer for a longtime confidante and top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told jurors Wednesday that his client accepted no bribes, or “ziti,” as prosecutors like to call it...
Feb 28, 2018
Jury duty anyone? North Carolina county finds few takers
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - The judges, deputies and clerks showed up for court, but one key element was missing: No one had invited any jurors. The Winston-Salem Journal reports that North Carolina’s...
Feb 28, 2018
Trump-backed senator gets GOP primary foe in Mississippi
ELLISVILLE, Miss. - Mississippi state lawmaker Chris McDaniel, who lost a bitter Republican primary to the state’s senior U.S. senator in 2014, said Wednesday that he is challenging the state...
Feb 28, 2018
Astronomers glimpse cosmic dawn, when the stars switched on
WASHINGTON - After the Big Bang, it was cold and black. And then there was light. Now, for the first time, astronomers have glimpsed that dawn of the universe 13.6 billion years ago when the earliest ...
Feb 28, 2018

Teacher barricades himself in class, fires gun; no one hurt
ATLANTA - A social studies teacher barricaded himself inside a classroom at a Georgia high school on Wednesday and fired a handgun, sending students running outside or hunkering down in darkened gym l...
Feb 28, 2018
Meghan Markle says she wants to focus on women's empowerment
LONDON - Meghan Markle said Wednesday that she hopes to “hit the ground running” as a member of the British royal family and use her position to highlight the empowerment of women. Markle,...
Feb 28, 2018