Category Archives: World
Researchers seek better ways to farm popular Pacific fish
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. - The dark grey fish prized for its buttery flavour live deep in the ocean, so researchers keep their lab cold and dark to simulate ideal conditions for sablefish larvae. A biologi...
May 7, 2017
US Interior secretary tours hotly contested Utah monument
BLANDING, Utah - U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke took an aerial tour Monday of one of America’s newest and most hotly contested monuments - one of 27 he’s been ordered to review by Pres...
May 7, 2017
Experts meet in Egypt over moving King Tut artifacts
CAIRO - Archaeologists and conservation experts met in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the safe transportation of King Tutankhamun’s throne, chests and bed from the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo t...
May 7, 2017
Report: Comedian Stephen Fry focus of blasphemy complaint
LONDON - Police in Ireland are refusing to comment on a blasphemy complaint and investigation involving British comedian Stephen Fry. The inquiry came to light when the Irish Independent newspaper rep...
May 7, 2017
Syria rejects international forces in safe zones
BEIRUT - Syria on Monday dismissed the idea of foreign forces patrolling four so-called de-escalation zones that are to be established under a deal struck by Russia, Iran and Turkey, suggesting Damasc...
May 7, 2017
Detroit Packard car plant still in ruins 3 years after sale
DETROIT - Peruvian developer Fernando Palazuelo saw the hulking and crumbling Packard car plant on Detroit’s east side and vowed to turn the industrial ruin that’s a symbol of the cityR...
May 7, 2017
Jurors will be asked if Tulsa cop went too far with shooting
TULSA, Okla. - Jurors hearing the manslaughter case against a white Oklahoma police officer accused of fatally shooting an unarmed black man last year will be asked to decide whether she used appropri...
May 7, 2017
N. Korea detains another American over alleged hostile acts
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea has detained another American citizen accused of committing unspecified hostile acts against the country. The country’s official Korean Central News Agenc...
May 7, 2017
Philippines says bomb sparked by feud but IS claims attack
MANILA, Philippines - A bomb explosion that killed two people in a Muslim community in Manila was sparked by a personal feud, Philippine police officials said Sunday, but the Islamic State group claim...
May 7, 2017
India's anti-corruption crusader faces bribery allegation
NEW DELHI - Anti-corruption crusader Arvind Kejriwal’s government in the Indian capital plunged into a crisis on Sunday as a minister he fired over the weekend accused him of accepting 20 millio...
May 7, 2017