Category Archives: World
Strike closes Eiffel Tower for 5th day
PARIS - The Eiffel Tower has closed for a fifth day in a strike over working conditions - causing disappointment for scores of tourists. The monument’s management apologized Saturday to the visi...
Dec 17, 2016
Drug overdose deaths increased significantly in past 5 years
CONCORD, N.H. - Drug overdose deaths have increased by 33 per cent in the past five years across the country, with some states seeing jumps of nearly 200 per cent. According to data from the Centers f...
Dec 17, 2016
Pope eats with homeless on 80th birthday, gets 70,000 emails
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis celebrated an active if low-key 80th birthday on Saturday, sharing breakfast with eight homeless people before celebrating Mass with cardinals as greetings poured in from a...
Dec 17, 2016
Papua New Guinea quake causes small tsunami, no damage
SYDNEY, Australia - A powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea on Saturday, generating a small tsunami and knocking out power in parts of the Pacific island nation. There were no i...
Dec 17, 2016
UK restores order after worst prison uprising since 1990
LONDON - Security officers restored order Saturday at a prison in the central English city of Birmingham a day after an estimated 600 inmates seized control and launched a destructive rampage. Authori...
Dec 17, 2016
China says it will give drone back, but Trump says 'keep it'
BEIJING - China says its military seized a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater glider in the South China Sea, but that it will give it back. President-elect Donald Trump, however, says the Chinese governmen...
Dec 17, 2016
Trump says Michelle Obama's 'no hope' comment about the past
MOBILE, Ala. - President-elect Donald Trump said first lady Michelle Obama “must have been talking about the past” when she said there’s no sense of hope after his election. Trump, s...
Dec 17, 2016
Car bomb kills 13 Turkish soldiers on bus; 7 suspects held
ISTANBUL - A suicide car bomber set off an explosion Saturday that demolished a public bus transporting off-duty soldiers in Turkey’s central province of Kayseri, killing 13 troops and wounding ...
Dec 16, 2016
Two-star general demoted after affair
WASHINGTON - An Army major general has been stripped of his stars and forced out of the military after a 30-year military career because of a long extramarital affair and “swinger” lifesty...
Dec 16, 2016
Governor wants tourism head to quit over rapper kerfuffle
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Friday he wants the head of the state’s tourism marketing agency to step down after it refused to publicly disclose it paid rapper Pitbull $1 mil...
Dec 16, 2016
