Category Archives: World

Iran cracks down on contentious pop music video with arrests
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iranian authorities have arrested multiple music producers connected to a California-based Iranian pop singer, his management company and Iranian media said Thursday, in ...
Mar 11, 2021

Florida on pace for record number of manatee deaths in 2021
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A combination of cold weather, a decline in seagrass due to development and contaminated waterways have put Florida on pace for its highest number of manatee deaths in a decade...
Mar 11, 2021

As climate fight shifts to oil, Biden faces a formidable foe
CASPER, Wyo. - President Joe Biden's bid to tackle climate change is running straight through the heart of the U.S. oil and gas industry -- a much bigger, more influential foe than Democrats faced whe...
Mar 11, 2021

Digital artwork auctions for $69 million amid online craze
LONDON - Christie's says it has auctioned off a digital collage by an artist named Beeple for nearly $70 million, in an unprecedented sale of a digital artwork that fetched more money than physical wo...
Mar 11, 2021

Uber, Lyft team up on database to expose abusive drivers
SAN RAMON, Calif. - Uber and Lyft have teamed up to create a database of drivers ousted from their ride-hailing services for complaints about sexual assault and other crimes that have raised passenger...
Mar 11, 2021

Emperor's mosaic displayed in Italy after stint as NYC table
NEMI, Italy - A looted mosaic that once decorated a ship of the Roman Emperor Caligula and ended up as a coffee table in New York City finally returned home Thursday, as details emerged about the luck...
Mar 11, 2021

Parliament votes to declare entire EU an LGBT 'freedom zone'
BRUSSELS - The European Parliament has overwhelming adopted a resolution declaring the entire 27-member European Union a "freedom zone" for LGBT people, an effort to push back on rising homophobia in ...
Mar 11, 2021

Oh, what a birthday week for Dr. Seuss books
NEW YORK - Oh, the books that sold last week by Dr. Seuss. More than 1.2 million copies of stories by the late children's author sold in the first week of March - more than quadruple from the week bef...
Mar 11, 2021

BMW remained profitable in 2020 with strong second half
FRANKFURT - German luxury automaker BMW says net profit fell 23% last year to 3.86 billion euros ($4.62 billion) as the pandemic shuttered factories in the first part of the year. The maker of the X5 ...
Mar 11, 2021

Lagging US, Europe speeds up help for virus-hit economy
FRANKFURT - The European Central Bank said it would step up its bond-purchase stimulus to support an economy whose recovery is expected to lag a year behind the rebound in the U.S., held back by slow ...
Mar 11, 2021