Category Archives: World
'Bridges of Madison County' author Robert James Waller dies
NEW YORK - Robert James Waller, whose bestselling , bittersweet 1992 romance novel “The Bridges of Madison County” was turned into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood and late...
Mar 10, 2017
Prosecutors gone from jobs after AP report on church abuse
A North Carolina district attorney said Friday that two assistant prosecutors no longer work for him amid charges they sabotaged investigations into abuse in their secretive religious sect. District A...
Mar 10, 2017
Interview interrupted: Small kids derail dad's BBC chat
LONDON - Two small children have lightened up a serious television interview on a weighty subject by barging into their dad’s office while he was on the air. Professor Robert E. Kelly was talkin...
Mar 10, 2017
Negatives of famed Soviet photographer finally recovered
MOSCOW - Just days before the 100th anniversary of Yevgeni Khaldei’s birth, the daughter of the photographer who took the iconic World War II image of Red Army soldiers atop the Reichstag has re...
Mar 10, 2017
Florida judge denies 'stand your ground' defence in shooting
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A Florida judge has denied a “‘stand your ground” defence for a retired Florida police officer who fatally shot a man in a movie theatre over texting. Judge Su...
Mar 10, 2017
Colombian church officials: Pope Francis to visit in Sept.
BOGOTA - Pope Francis will visit Colombia in September as part of a trip to celebrate the South American nation’s steps toward ending five decades of armed conflict. It will be the first papal v...
Mar 10, 2017
Italy court recognizes non-biological overseas gay adoption
ROME - A court in Florence has recognized the overseas adoptions of children by two same-sex couples in rulings hailed by the gay rights community as a new step for Italy. The Tribunal for Minors reco...
Mar 10, 2017
German police: Italian tourists among victims of axe attack
BERLIN - German police said Friday that two Italian tourists were among nine people injured when a man randomly attacked passengers with an axe in Duesseldorf’s main train station. The suspect, ...
Mar 10, 2017
Malaysian police formally ID Kim Jong Nam in airport attack
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian police on Friday formally identified Kim Jong Nam as the victim of a fatal nerve agent attack at Kuala Lumpur’s airport, an expected but significant developmen...
Mar 10, 2017
Egypt says 2 security officers killed, 4 wounded in Sinai
EL-ARISH, Egypt - Islamic militants detonated a roadside bomb in Egypt’s northern Sinai, killing two officers and wounding four in the latest attack in the restive peninsula, the Interior Minist...
Mar 10, 2017
