Category Archives: World
China launches 1st domestically-made aircraft carrier
BEIJING - China has launched its first aircraft carrier built entirely on its own, in a demonstration of the growing technical sophistication of its defence industries and determination to safeguard i...
Apr 25, 2017
Thai woman has no anger toward Facebook after girl's killing
PHUKET, Thailand - The wife of a Thai man who hanged their 11-month-old daughter on Facebook Live said Wednesday her husband is the only person to blame and she bears no anger toward the social media ...
Apr 25, 2017
NBC reporter, Latina journalism pioneer Cecilia Alvear dies
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Cecilia Alvear, who fought for Latino inclusion in newsrooms and reached unprecedented heights for a Hispanic woman in journalism in a decades-long career with NBC news, has die...
Apr 25, 2017
Australian PM to meet Trump after heated phone call
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia’s prime minister said Wednesday he is looking forward to meeting President Donald Trump next week when they attend Battle of the Coral Sea commemorations in New Y...
Apr 25, 2017
Victim told friend if she was harmed that Durst 'did it'
LOS ANGELES - Years before Susan Berman was executed in her home, she foretold her fate and named her best friend, New York real estate heir Robert Durst, as her assailant, a close friend testified Tu...
Apr 25, 2017
Trump to order review of national monuments
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Wednesday directing his interior secretary to review the designation of tens of millions of acres of land as “national monume...
Apr 25, 2017
Milwaukee prosecutors: Video shows inmate's water turned off
Milwaukee prosecutors weighing criminal charges for an inmate’s dehydration death said Tuesday that the jail’s commander failed to inform police about the existence of surveillance video s...
Apr 25, 2017
World's last male northern white rhino gets help from Tinder
NAIROBI, Kenya - The world’s last male northern white rhino has joined the Tinder dating app as wildlife experts make a last-chance breeding effort to keep his species alive. “I don’...
Apr 25, 2017
Official: White House names new Secret Service director
WASHINGTON - The White House on Tuesday named a retired Marine major general as the new director of the Secret Service. Randolph Alles will oversee an agency that for years has been beset with a serie...
Apr 25, 2017
Chinese court sentences US businesswoman accused of spying
HOUSTON - An American woman detained during a business trip to China was convicted of spying and sentenced Tuesday to 3 1/2 years in prison, raising the possibility that she may be allowed to return h...
Apr 25, 2017
