Category Archives: World
Some residents unaccounted for after huge senior centre fire
Authorities struggled on Friday to account for the whereabouts of all the residents of a Pennsylvania senior living community after a massive blaze tore through their complex during the middle of the ...
Nov 17, 2017
Climate talks wrap up with progress on Paris rulebook
BONN, Germany - Global talks on curbing climate change wrapped up Friday, with delegates and observers claiming progress on several key details of the 2015 Paris accord. The two-week negotiations focu...
Nov 17, 2017
Federal "extreme vetting" plan castigated by tech experts
Leading researchers castigated a federal plan that would use artificial intelligence methods to scrutinize immigrants and visa applicants, saying it is unworkable as written and likely to be “in...
Nov 17, 2017
US health agency to crack down on risky stem cell offerings
WASHINGTON - U.S. health authorities announced plans Thursday to crack down on doctors pushing stem cell procedures that pose the gravest risks to patients amid an effort to police a burgeoning medica...
Nov 17, 2017
Yoko Ono's Basquiat painting sells for nearly $11 million
NEW YORK - A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat (zhahn mee-SHEHL’ BAH’-skee-aht) from the collection of Yoko Ono has sold for $10.9 million. Sotheby’s says the work, titled “Cabr...
Nov 17, 2017
Ousted Caracas mayor flees house arrest, heads to Europe
CARACAS, Venezuela - Ousted Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma said he plans to take his fight against Venezuela’s socialist government to Europe after he escaped house arrest and fled to Colombia on...
Nov 17, 2017
In Minnesota, Franken feels heat - but no broad call to quit
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota Sen. Al Franken faces a certain ethics complaint in Congress but uncertainty among party leaders and voters in his home state - most stopping short of calling for his resig...
Nov 17, 2017
'Cone Weed' gets Christmas makeover in North Carolina town
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. - At first, it was an orange traffic cone with a weed growing out of it. Now, the roadside attraction dubbed “Cone Weed” is something of a Christmas miracle to locals. W...
Nov 17, 2017
Officials plan to herd humpback whale out of channel
LONG BEACH, N.Y. - Officials say they will try to herd a wayward humpback whale that has been seen swimming in a Long Island channel back to the Atlantic Ocean. Atlantic Marine Conservation Society sc...
Nov 17, 2017
Model Gigi Hadid pulls out of Victoria's Secret China show
SHANGHAI - Supermodel Gigi Hadid says she will not be walking the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in Shanghai next week, a few months after Chinese internet users accused her of racist behaviour....
Nov 17, 2017