Category Archives: World

Pope slips out of Vatican to visit record shop, gets CD
ROME (AP) - Pope Francis grew up listening to the opera on the radio, is a fan of Argentine tango and thinks Mozart "lifts you to God." But it still came as a something of a shock to see the 85-year-o...
Jan 11, 2022

Omicron may be headed for a rapid drop in US and Britain
Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically. The rea...
Jan 11, 2022

Offer made to drop perjury charges in Ghislaine Maxwell case
NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. government will agree to drop pending perjury charges against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell if her sex trafficking case goes to sentencing later this year, prosecutors s...
Jan 11, 2022

Djokovic back into swing in Australia, visa questions linger
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Novak Djokovic held a practice session on Tuesday, a day after he left immigration detention, focusing on defending his Australian Open title even while he still faces the ...
Jan 11, 2022

China locks down third city, raising affected to 20 million
BEIJING (AP) - A third Chinese city has locked down its residents because of a COVID-19 outbreak, raising the number confined to their homes in China to about 20 million people. It wasn't clear how lo...
Jan 10, 2022

European Parliament President David Sassoli dies at 65
WASHINGTON (AP) - European Parliament President David Sassoli has died at a hospital in Italy, his spokesman said in a tweet Tuesday. No details were offered in the tweet by spokesman Roberto Cuillo b...
Jan 10, 2022

Robert Durst, real estate heir convicted of murder, dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Robert Durst, the wealthy New York real estate heir and failed fugitive who was dogged for decades with suspicion in the disappearance and deaths of those around him before he was c...
Jan 10, 2022

Mayor says 17 died in NYC fire, 2 fewer than first reported
NEW YORK (AP) - New York Mayor Eric Adams on Monday revised the death toll from a high-rise fire, saying 17 people were killed, two fewer than originally thought. Adams said nine adults and eight chil...
Jan 10, 2022

Australian judge reinstates tennis star Djokovic's visa
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - An Australian judge has reinstated tennis star Novak Djokovic's visa, which was canceled last week because he is unvaccinated. Circuit Court Judge Anthony Kelly also ordere...
Jan 09, 2022

Myanmar's Suu Kyi sentenced to 4 more years in prison
BANGKOK (AP) - A court in Myanmar sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison on Monday after finding her guilty of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies and viol...
Jan 09, 2022