Category Archives: World
Ssscary! Cleaning staff finds python in hotel room drawer
WORCESTER, Mass. - A worker at a Massachusetts hotel got a slithery surprise while cleaning a room - a 5-foot ball python left in a drawer. The Telegram & Gazette (http://bit.ly/2nAZGMW ) reports ...
Apr 11, 2017
Toshiba's survival in doubt amid Westinghouse troubles
TOKYO - Toshiba Corp., whose U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse Electric Co. has filed for bankruptcy protection, raised doubts Tuesday about its ability to survive as a company. In an unaudited financial...
Apr 11, 2017
Cases, but also cafeteria duty, await Gorsuch at high court
WASHINGTON - How do you keep a new Supreme Court justice’s head from getting too big? Start by making him take notes and answer the door at the justices’ private meetings. Then, remind him...
Apr 11, 2017
Who is Mel? US terror case could unmask New York police mole
NEW YORK - For years, a woman named “Mel” mingled with young Muslims in New York, telling them she was a Turkish convert to the faith looking for friends. In reality, she was a cop working...
Apr 11, 2017
Study: Migrant workers exploited en route to Arab Gulf
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - South Asian migrants working in the multi-billion dollar construction industry in Arab Gulf countries are shouldering the costs of their own recruitment fees while compan...
Apr 11, 2017
Outages increase as Puerto Rico company crumbles amid crisis
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Spoiled food. Damaged appliances. Shuttered businesses. A recent increase in power outages is taking a heavy toll on Puerto Rico as the U.S. territory’s heavily indebted ...
Apr 11, 2017
Pyongyang luxury hotel gets more modern, less Soviet, style
PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - North Korea’s most famous luxury hotel has reopened after renovations that modernized its 1980s, vaguely Soviet, style. The Koryo is one...
Apr 11, 2017
After talks, Chinese region sees risks to trade, US visits
BEIJING - After repeatedly bashing China on the campaign trail, President Donald Trump met his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping for the first time last week at Trump’s Florida estate. In speeches...
Apr 11, 2017
Man dies after being hit with beer bottle during bar fight
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Police say a man is dead after another man hit him over the head with a beer bottle while they played pool at a Florida bar. St. Petersburg police tell news outlets that 62-year...
Apr 11, 2017
Jets zip through narrow Star Wars Canyon, drawing visitors
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - Silence and stillness settled over the deep, sunbaked gorge as a pair of photographers sat on a cliff, waiting. Then the rumbling started. As it grew louder, they ...
Apr 11, 2017
