Category Archives: World
Emerald weighing more than 600 pounds found in Brazil
SAO PAULO - Miners have found a 4.3-foot (1.3-meter) tall emerald weighing more than 600 pounds (272 kilograms) in Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia. Paulo Santana of Brazil’s National ...
May 23, 2017
Lawmakers probe US contractor in Iraq sex trafficking case
WASHINGTON - A congressional investigative panel is demanding documents and testimony from an embattled U.S. defence contractor accused of failing to promptly disclose human trafficking on a base in I...
May 23, 2017
Some musicians cancel concerts after Manchester blast
NEW YORK - The suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England has shaken the music world, with some artists cancelling upcoming gigs and others planning to go ahead as scheduled. B...
May 23, 2017
Neighbor charged in Ohio fire that killed 5 kids, 2 adults
AKRON, Ohio - A neighbour of a family that died in a house fire was charged Tuesday with intentionally setting it ablaze, killing two adults and five children. Stanley Ford, 58, was charged with aggra...
May 23, 2017
Police: Hall of Famer Cortez Kennedy found dead
ORLANDO, Fla. - Hall of Fame defensive tackle Cortez Kennedy has died in Orlando. The Orlando Police Department confirmed that the 48-year-old Kennedy was found dead Tuesday morning. Police public inf...
May 23, 2017
Congressman quits post in GOP group over health care bill
WASHINGTON - A New Jersey Republican congressman who helped push the House health care bill to passage quit his post Tuesday as a chairman of the chamber’s moderate Tuesday Group, criticizing co...
May 23, 2017
US says Fiat Chrysler used software to beat emissions tests
DETROIT - The U.S. government is suing Fiat Chrysler, alleging that some diesel pickup trucks and Jeep SUVs cheat on emissions tests. The lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Justice Department alleges that n...
May 23, 2017
New roller coaster replaces the one Sandy plunged into sea
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. - Nearly five years after Superstorm Sandy plunged a roller coaster into the sea in what became one of the storm’s most enduring images, the ride has been replaced - safely...
May 23, 2017
Graduation day bittersweet for slain black scholar's friends
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A black Bowie State University student who police say was fatally stabbed by a white stranger was honoured Tuesday at the commencement ceremony where he would have walked across th...
May 23, 2017
Police find Nazi items, explosives during murder probe
Investigators found white supremacist propaganda, bomb-making materials and a framed photograph of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh at a Florida apartment where a teenager killed two roommates who...
May 23, 2017