Category Archives: World
Film academy announces annual Governors Awards recipients
LOS ANGELES - Actor Jackie Chan, film editor Anne V. Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentarian Frederick Wiseman are getting honorary Academy Awards. The film academy announced Thursd...
Sep 1, 2016
Congressman John Lewis crowd surfs after Colbert interview
NEW YORK - Civil rights leader and U.S. Rep. John Lewis may be 76, but he’s not too old to crowd surf. The Georgia Democrat wrapped up an interview on Wednesday’s “Late Show with Ste...
Sep 1, 2016
Report documents decades of abuse at elite boarding school
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The elite boarding school St. George’s became a kind of “private hell” for dozens of students in the 1970s and ’80s who were manipulated and sexually abused ...
Sep 1, 2016
German village relieved as unruly stork heads south
BERLIN - A German village is enjoying its peace after an unruly guest took off: Ronny the stork, who spent the summer pecking at windows and cars as he attacked his own reflection. Ronny’s persi...
Sep 1, 2016
US average 30-year mortgage rate rises to 3.46 per cent
WASHINGTON - Long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week amid expectations in financial markets that an increase in interest rates by the Federal Reserve may be on the horizon. Mortgage rates remain ...
Sep 1, 2016
US construction spending unchanged in July
WASHINGTON - U.S. construction spending was unchanged in July as weakness in spending on government projects offset gains in home building and the strongest month for non-residential construction on r...
Sep 1, 2016
US factory activity shrinks for first time in 6 months
WASHINGTON - U.S. manufacturing contracted last month for the first time since February, as new orders and output plummeted and factories cut jobs. The Institute for Supply Management said Thursday th...
Sep 1, 2016
US auto sales fall 4 per cent in August
DETROIT - U.S. sales of new cars and trucks fell in August, ending summer on a low note for the auto industry and making it less likely that this year’s auto sales will match the record set in 2...
Sep 1, 2016
Town extends curfew by 15 minutes, just for Springsteen
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - A Massachusetts town has decided to extend its concert curfew by 15 minutes, just for Bruce Springsteen. The Sun Chronicle (http://bit.ly/2bW0jev ) reports that the Foxborough boar...
Sep 1, 2016
AP NEWSBREAK: Hinckley starts full-time life in Va. Sept. 10
WASHINGTON - The man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan 35 years ago will leave a Washington psychiatric hospital to live full-time in Virginia on Sept. 10, his lawyer said Thursday....
Sep 1, 2016
