Category Archives: World
World Vision says hundreds affected by Solomon Islands quake
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Hundreds of people in remote parts of the Solomon Islands have had their homes damaged or destroyed by a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Friday, an aid organiza...
Dec 08, 2016
Wife on video: '5,000 per cent sure' she wanted husband dead
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Millions of people have seen a secretly recorded video of Dalia Dippolito telling an undercover police officer she was “5,000 per cent sure” about hiring him to kil...
Dec 08, 2016
US home price gains lift household wealth to $90.2 trillion
WASHINGTON - A healthy increase in home values and higher stock prices drove up U.S. household wealth in the July-September quarter, though the gains are largely concentrated among wealthier Americans...
Dec 08, 2016
Kentucky man pleads guilty in family murder plot
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Kentucky man charged with orchestrating the slayings of his parents, sister and an acquaintance who was enlisted to kill the family has avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty...
Dec 08, 2016
Defendant's pal: Will Smith attacked my friend after crash
NEW ORLEANS - Anger and anguish were evident in a New Orleans courtroom Thursday as a friend of the man on trial for killing retired Saints star Will Smith repeatedly insisted that Smith and his frien...
Dec 08, 2016
Global stocks extend European stimulus-inspired rally
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Global stocks continued to rise Friday as investors remained buoyed by the European Central Bank’s decision to extend its bond-buying economic stimulus program. South Ko...
Dec 08, 2016
Rolling Stone's Mick Jagger celebrates birth of 8th child
NEW YORK - Mick Jagger’s representatives say the rock legend has welcomed the birth of his eighth child. Jagger, the 73-year-old frontman of the Rolling Stones, was on hand Thursday at a New Yor...
Dec 08, 2016
Paula Broadwell: Petraeus cabinet talk 'a bit of a shocker'
NEW YORK - David Petraeus’ former mistress says “it was a bit of a shocker” to learn the retired four-star general was being considered by President-elect Donald Trump for a cabinet ...
Dec 08, 2016
Ali Center theft suspect arrested; Ali artwork still missing
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Authorities say a man has been arrested in Pennsylvania in a brazen art theft from the Muhammad Ali Center in Kentucky. The U.S. Marshals Service says 58-year-old Gerald Garrett was ...
Dec 08, 2016
Adolf Burger, inmate forced by Nazis to forge money, dies
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Adolf Burger, a Jewish typographer who was forced by the Nazis to make fake British pounds in a major counterfeit operation during World War II, has died. He was 99. Public br...
Dec 08, 2016
