Category Archives: World
Romania: 1,300 officials prosecuted for graft last year
BUCHAREST, Romania - Nearly 1,300 officials were sent to trial last year in Romania in corruption cases with damages amounting to 260 million euros ($273 million), the country’s chief anti-corru...
Feb 23, 2017
Winning ticket for $435 million Powerball sold in Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS - An Indiana lottery official says the sole winning ticket for an estimated $435 million Powerball jackpot was sold in the Indiana city of Lafayette. Hoosier Lottery spokesman Dennis Rose...
Feb 23, 2017
Aid group: 13 migrants suffocate in Libya shipping container
CAIRO - Thirteen African migrants suffocated inside a shipping container while being transported over four days between two Libyan towns, a Red Crescent official said Thursday. Osama al-Fadly, head of...
Feb 23, 2017
Rusty reptiles: Orange turtles pop up in Carolinas
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - More rusty reptiles are popping up in the Carolinas. The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reports (http://bit.ly/2kNSmw4 ) a visitor to the Myrtlewood Golf Club’s Palmetto Course re...
Feb 23, 2017
Author Helen Bailey's partner jailed for 34 years for murder
LONDON - The partner of children’s author Helen Bailey has been sentenced to at least 34 years in prison for murdering her and dumping her body in a cesspool at their home. Judge Andrew Bright t...
Feb 23, 2017
SpaceX makes good on space station delivery a little late
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - SpaceX made good on a 250-mile-high delivery at the International Space Station on Thursday, after fixing a navigation problem that held up the shipment a day. Everything went s...
Feb 23, 2017
Malaysia: VX nerve agent killed brother of N. Korean leader
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Sometime in the hours after poisoning the half brother of North Korea’s leader, one of his two attackers began to vomit, Malaysian police said Friday. It was apparently ...
Feb 23, 2017
Residents return after flooding to access damage in San Jose
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Gloria Najar said it felt like an “apocalypse” when she returned home after being evacuated in a flood that sent waist-high water into homes and streets in San Jose. Sti...
Feb 23, 2017
Professor has taken 'selfie' every day for last 30 years
BOSTON - Long before they were called selfies, Karl Baden snapped a simple black and white photo of himself. Then he repeated it, every day, for the next three decades. Baden’s “Every Day&...
Feb 22, 2017
US-born panda Bao Bao lands in China after leaving DC zoo
BEIJING - An American-born panda started settling into her new home Thursday in southwest China where she will eventually join a breeding program. Bao Bao was born at the National Zoo in Washington to...
Feb 22, 2017
