Category Archives: World
German airport offers prayer booth in 65 languages
BERLIN - Feeling nervous before your flight? Travellers at one German airport can now receive spiritual solace by entering a booth and listening to a prayer of their choice before boarding the plane. ...
May 05, 2017
Puerto Rico to close 179 public schools amid crisis
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico is closing 179 public schools in a move expected to save more than $7 million amid a deep economic crisis that has sparked an exodus to the U.S. mainland in the pas...
May 05, 2017
Ex-deputy mayor to revive burlesque career for charity
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - A former deputy mayor in New Jersey is resurrecting her career as a burlesque dancer for charity. Former Jersey City deputy mayor Leona Beldini will take the stage as Hope Diamond ...
May 05, 2017
US military member killed in Somalia, 1st death since 1993
MOGADISHU, Somalia - A U.S. service member has been killed in Somalia during an operation against the extremist group al-Shabab - the first U.S. combat death there in more than two decades - as the Un...
May 05, 2017
Cargo plane goes off runway in West Virginia; 2 killed
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A cargo plane contracted by UPS went off the runway and over a steep, wooded hillside Friday at a West Virginia airport, killing the pilot and co-pilot, an airport official said. N...
May 05, 2017
The Latest: France's election commission studies hack attack
PARIS - The Latest on the French presidential runoff on Sunday (all times local): 1:30 a.m. France’s election campaign commission is examining a hacking attack on candidate Emmanuel Macron’...
May 05, 2017
Top court upholds death sentence for rape that shocked India
NEW DELHI - India’s top court on Friday upheld the death sentences of four men who were convicted in the fatal gang-rape and torture of a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in the India...
May 05, 2017
Last survivor of Hindenburg disaster: 'The air was on fire'
TRENTON, N.J. - Wind and thunderstorms had delayed the Hindenburg’s arrival in New Jersey from Germany on May 6, 1937. The father of 8-year-old Werner Doehner headed to his cabin after using his...
May 05, 2017
As rivers recede, another death from Midwest flooding
ST. LOUIS - A man has died after his vehicle was swept off a road near a flooded creek in Missouri, marking the 10th death blamed on flooding in the Midwest, authorities said Friday. The Missouri Stat...
May 05, 2017
Belgian PM interview: push Brexit button and May must pay
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel says British expectations in its divorce proceedings from the European Union are “not realistic” and sent a clear warning that Britain will not escape...
May 05, 2017
