Category Archives: World
US already feeling effects of climate change, report says
WASHINGTON - A federal climate report says the United States is already feeling the effects of climate change, with temperatures rising dramatically over the last four decades. That’s according ...
Aug 08, 2017
Report reveals underground US haven for heroin, drug users
NEW YORK - A safe haven where drug users inject themselves with heroin and other drugs has been quietly operating in the United States for the past three years, a report reveals. None were known to ex...
Aug 08, 2017
Sign-language speaking orangutan raised like a human dies
ATLANTA - An orangutan who communicated with researchers using sign-language has died at an Atlanta zoo. Chantek was 39. On its website, Zoo Atlanta says Chantek died Monday. The cause of death isn...
Aug 08, 2017
Rescuers find bodies after China quake kills 19, injures 247
BEIJING - Stranded tourists and residents struggled Wednesday to clear roads and cope with power cuts caused by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 19 people and injured 247. The magnitude 6.5 ...
Aug 08, 2017
Experts: Lives at risk if no sleep tests for train engineers
U.S. officials are abandoning plans to require sleep apnea screening for truck drivers and train engineers, a decision that safety experts say puts millions of lives at risk. The Federal Railroad Admi...
Aug 08, 2017
Marine mammal used in pioneering research back in limelight
WAIMANALO, Hawaii - Compared with other marine mammals, 40-year-old Kina has lived a particularly winding and high-profile life. She went from the open ocean off Japan, to a Hong Kong amusement park, ...
Aug 08, 2017
Tillerson visits Thailand, Malaysia to firm up relations
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson paid visits to Thailand and Malaysia on Tuesday, in an effort to shore up relations with two of America’s Southeast Asian allies an...
Aug 08, 2017
South Africa's president survives no-confidence motion again
JOHANNESBURG - President Jacob Zuma survived a no-confidence vote Tuesday in the seventh and most serious attempt to unseat him after months of growing anger in South Africa over alleged corruption an...
Aug 08, 2017
Google CEO slams memo on gender as employee reportedly fired
NEW YORK - A memo written by a male engineer at Google about gender differences sparked a quick rebuttal from Google after it circulated widely online. Google CEO Sundar Pichai denounced the memo in a...
Aug 08, 2017
New Venezuela assembly declares itself superior govt branch
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela’s new constitutional assembly took over the halls of the endangered, opposition-controlled congress Tuesday and decreed itself superior to all other branches of go...
Aug 08, 2017