Category Archives: World
Hemingway look-alikes gather in Key West for annual contest
KEY WEST, Fla. - About 160 stocky, white-bearded men resembling Ernest Hemingway have gathered in Florida to compete in the island city’s annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest. The competition beg...
Jul 21, 2017
Lawsuit: Effects of 'bathroom bill' linger in North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C. - The law that replaced North Carolina’s notorious “bathroom bill” sports a new look but maintains LGBT discrimination and prevents transgender people from using restro...
Jul 21, 2017
Dozens of foreign workers sought for Trump's Florida clubs
WASHINGTON - The Trump Organization is asking the federal government to grant dozens of special visas to foreign nationals to work at two of the President Donald Trump’s private clubs in Florida...
Jul 21, 2017
Audi to update 850,000 cars as diesel recalls widen
BERLIN - German automaker Audi says it will fit up to 850,000 diesel cars with new software to improve their emissions performance, following a similar move by rival Daimler as the auto industry tries...
Jul 21, 2017
Killing of Cecil's son highlights peril facing African lions
JOHANNESBURG - First there was Cecil, a Zimbabwean lion whose allegedly illegal killing by an American hunter in 2015 ignited international outrage. Now Cecil’s son Xanda has been legally killed...
Jul 21, 2017
Romania: Art exhibit at ex-prison show horrors of communism
PITESTI, Romania - An art exhibition has gone on display at a former Romanian prison where communists tortured and killed political prisoners in a gruesome reeducation program. The collection of 11 sc...
Jul 21, 2017
The Latest: Swede confirmed as one of those killed in quake
KOS, Greece - The Latest on an earthquake that struck Turkey’s Aegean coast and nearby Greek islands (all times local): 5:25 p.m. Sweden’s foreign ministry has confirmed that the second vi...
Jul 21, 2017
UN, aid group: Cholera in Yemen to worsen in rainy season
CAIRO - The U.N. health agency and an international aid organization warned on Friday that Yemen’s cholera epidemic, the world’s worst since Haiti’s 2010 outbreak, is likely to worse...
Jul 21, 2017
US to ban Americans from travelling to North Korea
WASHINGTON - American citizens will be barred from travelling to North Korea next month following a prohibition on using U.S. passports to enter the country, the State Department said Friday. Secretar...
Jul 21, 2017
Exhumation of Dali's remains finds his moustache still intact
FIGUERES, Spain - Forensic experts in Spain have removed hair, nails and two long bones from Salvador Dali’s embalmed remains to aid a court-ordered paternity test that may enable a woman who sa...
Jul 21, 2017
