Category Archives: World
Patsy Cline Museum, Madame Tussauds open in Nashville
NASHVILLE - Two new attractions opening this month in Nashville will give fans a chance to get closer to some of their favourite country music icons. The legendary vocalist Patsy Cline gets an overdue...
Apr 13, 2017
California Chick-fil-A store seeks stolen cow costumes
FOLSOM, Calif. - A California Chick-fil-A franchise is waiting for its cows to come home after thieves absconded with three mascot costumes from a storage shed earlier this week. The shop posted news ...
Apr 13, 2017
US says countries must punish UN troops for sexual abuse
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Thursday urged all countries that provide troops for U.N. peacekeeping missions to hold soldiers accountable for sexual abuse and exploitation, an appeal that came after...
Apr 13, 2017
Hydrogen fuel cell cars face obstacle: few fueling stations
DETROIT - Hydrogen fuel cell cars could one day challenge electric cars in the race for pollution-free roads - but only if more stations are built to fuel them. Honda, Toyota and Hyundai have leased a...
Apr 13, 2017
Pittsburgh Steelers chairman Dan Rooney dies at 84
Dan Rooney, the powerful and popular Pittsburgh Steelers chairman whose name is attached to the NFL’s landmark initiative in minority hiring, died Thursday. He was 84. The team announced his dea...
Apr 13, 2017
Russia says it won't broadcast Eurovision Song Contest
MOSCOW - Russia’s Channel One says it will not broadcast the Eurovision Song Contest in Russia after Ukraine, which hosts the contest this year, has barred the Russian entrant from travelling to...
Apr 13, 2017
US drops 'mother of all bombs' on Islamic State tunnel
WASHINGTON - U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Thursday struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan with “the mother of all bombs,” the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used i...
Apr 13, 2017
Federal judge ordered to rehab for alcoholism, records show
BATON ROUGE, La. - A federal judge whose unusual behaviour on the bench preceded her mysterious removal from a string of cases was ordered to get treatment for alcoholism so severe a colleague believe...
Apr 13, 2017
Conservative group's health ads slam top GOP lawmakers
WASHINGTON - The conservative Club for Growth is targeting powerful committee chairmen and other top Republicans, part of an aggressive ad campaign to rally support for the GOP’s struggling heal...
Apr 13, 2017
Iowa voters say GOP lawmaker right to say no to health bill
SIDNEY, Iowa - Rebuffing President Donald Trump and Republican leaders on their health care bill seemed like a major political misstep for Iowa Rep. David Young, who quickly was punished by a politica...
Apr 13, 2017
