Category Archives: World
Finnish filmmaker Karukoski to direct JRR Tolkien biopic
HELSINKI - Finnish filmmaker Dome Karukoski’s company says he will direct a Hollywood biopic of J.R.R. Tolkien, the British author of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.&#...
Jul 25, 2017
Retired police go on tourist patrol at Rome's Trevi Fountain
ROME - Retired traffic officers at Rome’s Trevi Fountain are working to keep tourists on good behaviour. The Italian city’s mayor signed an order last month aimed at protecting Trevi and s...
Jul 25, 2017
US home prices reach record high for 6th straight month
WASHINGTON - U.S. home prices reached a new high in May for the sixth straight month, which may raise fears of another housing bubble roughly a decade after a previous one burst. The Standard & Po...
Jul 25, 2017
Reporter Q&A: A look at Duterte's state of the nation speech
MANILA, Philippines - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his second state of the nation speech to a joint session of Congress on Monday, vowing to continue his bloody war on illegal drugs ...
Jul 25, 2017
Robots, race cars and weather: Girl Scouts offer new badges
NEW YORK - Girl Scouts from tiny Daisies to teen Ambassadors may earn 23 new badges focused on science, technology, engineering and math. It’s the largest addition of new badges in a decade for ...
Jul 25, 2017
NTSB: We can't know why SUV was on tracks before train crash
NEW YORK - Federal safety investigators said Tuesday they can’t determine why an SUV ended up in the path of an oncoming commuter train, causing a crash that killed six people at a rail crossing...
Jul 25, 2017
Pressure mounts to curtail surgery on intersex children
NEW YORK - Children whose sexual characteristics don’t neatly align with the norm have for decades faced surgery to rearrange their anatomy to resemble that of more typical boys and girls - long...
Jul 25, 2017
Driver of truck with immigrants who died had license issues
A long-haul truck driver arrested for driving a tractor-trailer so hot and so crammed with immigrants that 10 people died had his license to drive commercial trucks rescinded three months earlier. Flo...
Jul 25, 2017
GOP senators blink on a big chance to repeal 'Obamacare'
WASHINGTON - After seven years of emphatic campaign promises, Senate Republicans demonstrated they didn’t have the stomach to repeal “Obamacare” on Wednesday when it actually counted...
Jul 25, 2017
AP: Brazilians detail abuses by US church, shattered lives
SAO JOAQUIM DE BICAS, Brazil - At the Word of Faith Fellowship churches in the Brazilian cities of Sao Joaquim de Bicas and Franco da Rocha, the signs of broken families are everywhere: parents separa...
Jul 25, 2017
