Category Archives: World
Video shows Penn State fraternity pledge in agony after fall
BELLEFONTE, Pa. - Prosecutors on Monday played videotape from inside a Penn State fraternity that showed a pledge suffering through an agonizing night from untreated injuries sustained in a fall durin...
Jun 12, 2017
Attorney: Officer 'did what he had to do' in driver shooting
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a black motorist seconds after the man informed him he was carrying a gun “did what he had to do” in a thoroughly justified us...
Jun 12, 2017
Far from roads, cowboys thrive in Brazil wetlands
CORUMBA, Brazil - Greener pastures grow under water in the Pantanal de Mato Grosso do Sul, an immense area of wetlands in western Brazil. On his feet hours before sunrise, 66-year-old Joao Aquino Pere...
Jun 12, 2017
Rivers in US West turn dangerous as days warm, snow thaws
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - Massive waterfalls in Yosemite National Park and rivers raging in mountains throughout the western United States are thundering with greater force than they have for y...
Jun 12, 2017
Under Trump, US militias not ready to lay down arms
JACKSON, Ga. - In the woods south of Atlanta, John and Yvette DeMaria are with about a dozen camouflage-wearing, heavily armed Americans huffing and puffing as they scramble to navigate the sprawling ...
Jun 12, 2017
Ramadan toll shows Islamic State in pitched recruiting race
Its strongholds in Iraq and Syria slipping from its grasp, the Islamic State group threatened to make this year’s Ramadan a bloody one at home and abroad. With attacks in Egypt, Britain and Iran...
Jun 12, 2017
Immelt shook up GE's business model, but not its stock price
NEW YORK - General Electric’s Jeff Immelt is stepping down after 16 years as CEO of the iconic conglomerate, having succeeded in repositioning the company as a producer of large industrial produ...
Jun 12, 2017
Madrid buses move to curtail "manspreading" practice
MADRID - If you’re taking a bus in the Spanish capital, be sure to keep your legs to yourself. Madrid authorities on Monday started putting up signs banning the practice of ‘manspreading&#...
Jun 12, 2017
US opts out of G7 pledge committing to Paris climate accord
BOLOGNA, Italy - The United States refused Monday to sign on to a Group of Seven pledge that calls the Paris climate accord the “irreversible” global tool to address climate change. The G-...
Jun 12, 2017
Quake kills woman, guts houses on Greek island of Lesbos
ATHENS, Greece - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 badly damaged scores of homes on the eastern Greek island of Lesbos Monday, killing one woman and injuring at least 10 people. It was...
Jun 12, 2017