Category Archives: World
Activists blast LAPD video showing part of confrontation
LOS ANGELES - When the Los Angeles Police Department released video capturing part of a deadly confrontation between police and a black man, the criticism was immediate. Although activists had been ca...
Oct 05, 2016
Japan police probe poisoning deaths at hospital for elderly
TOKYO - Authorities in Japan are investigating the poisoning deaths of two elderly patients at a Yokohama hospital specializing in terminal-stage care. Oguchi Hospital has had a higher death rate in r...
Oct 05, 2016
First fame then arrest for Saudi teen who chatted up US girl
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - When a teenager in Saudi Arabia began chatting up an American woman online, he first found fame and then notoriety before he was arrested over concerns that his clumsy cy...
Oct 05, 2016
Nigeria leader selling 2 presidential jets as economy sinks
LAGOS, Nigeria - A spokesman says Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is selling two jets in line with a campaign promise to reduce unnecessary luxuries, including the 11-aircraft presidential ...
Oct 05, 2016
Superheroes honour school shooting victim dressed as Batman
TOWNVILLE, S.C. - Six-year-old Jacob Hall was dressed as Batman for his funeral on Wednesday, and many of more than 1,000 mourners appeared as superheroes to honour the school shooting victim. The fir...
Oct 05, 2016
US trade deficit in August rises 3 per cent to $40.7 billion
WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit rose in August as a flood of imports offset the best showing for exports in 13 months. The politically sensitive deficit with China rose to the highest level in 11 ...
Oct 05, 2016
Survey: US businesses add fewest jobs in 5 months
WASHINGTON - U.S. businesses added 154,000 jobs in September, the slowest pace of hiring since April, a private survey found. Payroll processor ADP says manufacturers cut jobs for the eighth straight ...
Oct 05, 2016
3 win Nobel chemistry prize for world's tiniest machines
Three scientists won a Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for advances in a field that has big hopes for very tiny machines - the smallest ever built. Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Scottish-born Fras...
Oct 05, 2016
World court has no jurisdiction in nuclear disarmament case
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - By the tightest possible margin, the United Nations’ highest court on Wednesday rejected three nuclear disarmament cases filed by the tiny Pacific Ocean nation of the Ma...
Oct 05, 2016
Nearly 2M urged to evacuate as Matthew edges toward US
MELBOURNE BEACH, Fla. - Hurricane Matthew marched toward Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas and nearly 2 million people along the coast were urged to evacuate their homes, a mass exodus ahead of a maj...
Oct 05, 2016