Category Archives: World
Johnny Depp's former managers call him 'habitual liar'
LOS ANGELES - Johnny Depp’s former business managers say the star “is a habitual liar who denies responsibility for his own outrageous conduct” and “has himself to blame for hi...
Apr 26, 2017
Bigfoot on the lam: Sasquatch statues vanish from Ohio store
NORTH LIMA, Ohio - Police in Ohio are on the lookout for Bigfoot after a gift shop owner reported that statues of the hairy creature vanished from outside her store. Arlene Fitzer tells WFMJ-TV (http:...
Apr 26, 2017
Audit: Ferguson courts 'in disarray' after police killing
ST. LOUIS - An audit launched in the wake of unrest following the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson found the city’s court system “in disarray” and disorganized, acc...
Apr 26, 2017
Chornobyl's ghost town draws daring visitors
PRIPYAT, Ukraine - A bulletin board in the Ukrainian town of Pripyat still bears an edition of the Sovietsky Patriot newspaper, dated three days before the nuclear explosion that turned the city into ...
Apr 26, 2017
Death of giant British rabbit adds to United Airlines' woes
LONDON - United Airlines is reviewing its handling of a giant showcase rabbit that died after being shipped across the Atlantic from Britain on one of its flights, the latest in a growing list of cust...
Apr 26, 2017
Student accused of planting bomb on London Tube train
LONDON - A university student with an interest in weapons and extremism was accused Wednesday of planting a homemade bomb on a London subway train with the intention of causing carnage. Prosecutors sa...
Apr 26, 2017
Angry debate in Egypt over reforms in Islam against radicals
CAIRO - It was a startling collision of religion and politics. Egypt’s president proposed a new law that would prevent Muslim men from ending their marriages simply by saying “divorce̶...
Apr 26, 2017
Dispute over health payments defused, spending bill on track
WASHINGTON - The White House and congressional Democrats on Wednesday defused a tense standoff over payments for the working poor under the health care law, keeping a massive government spending bill ...
Apr 26, 2017
Boston police make little progress on race gap
BOSTON - The rate at which minorities are subjected to stops, searches and frisks by police doesn’t appear to be improving in Boston in the year since the department claimed it was narrowing rac...
Apr 26, 2017
Daughter: Bill Cosby 'is not abusive, violent or a rapist'
PHILADELPHIA - Bill Cosby’s youngest daughter has come to the comedian’s defence ahead of a looming sexual assault trial. Evin Cosby writes in an opinion piece for the National Newspaper P...
Apr 26, 2017
