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Anderson Cooper is a father; gives infant son a special name

NEW YORK - Anderson Cooper is a father, a milestone the CNN anchor says for a while he didn't believe would ever happen. Cooper announced the birth of his son, Wyatt, Thursday evening on his show and ...

May 01, 2020

Duchess of Sussex loses first round in privacy claim

LONDON - The Duchess of Sussex has lost an early round in her privacy case against the Mail on Sunday newspaper over its publication of a letter to her estranged father. Meghan is suing for invasion o...

May 01, 2020

Lives Lost: Virus silences angelic voice of WWII evacuee

LISBON, Portugal - After Adolf Hitler annexed his native Austria and Allied bombs laid waste to Vienna, Hannelore Cruz travelled to Portugal without her parents as a refugee from hunger, cold and post...

Apr 30, 2020

Queen and Adam Lambert honour global COVID-19 'Champions'

LONDON - Queen and singer Adam Lambert have a message for workers on the frontline of the COVID-19 fight: "You Are the Champions." Brian May, Roger Taylor and Lambert recently gathered virtually to re...

Apr 30, 2020

Apple pinched by pandemic; profit, iPhone sales decline

BERKELEY, Calif. - Apple's profit dipped slightly while revenues rose in the January-March quarter, reflecting early fallout from a coronavirus pandemic that shut down its factories and then forced hu...

Apr 30, 2020

Gigi Hadid expects first child with Zayn Malik in September

LOS ANGELES - Gigi Hadid is about to strut into motherhood. The supermodel's mother, Yolanda Hadid, confirmed with Dutch outlet RTL Boulevard on Wednesday that her daughter is pregnant. She is expecti...

Apr 30, 2020

'Goonies' cast, 'Flintstones' rescue TV viewers in pandemic

LOS ANGELES - Josh Gad had a notion about what might soothe the kid in him during a scary time and maybe do the same for others. The actor got to work organizing an online reunion of the cast and crea...

Apr 30, 2020

US intel: Coronavirus not manmade, still studying lab theory

WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that the new coronavirus was "not manmade or genetically modified" but say they are still examining whether the origins of the pandemic trace to ...

Apr 30, 2020

Outsiders consider possibility of chaos in North Korea

TOKYO - North Korea's collapse has been predicted - wrongly- for decades. Some said it would happen after fighting ended in the Korean War in 1953. Others thought it would be during a 1990s famine or ...

Apr 30, 2020

About 50 bodies found in trucks outside NY funeral home

NEW YORK - Police were called to a Brooklyn neighbourhood Wednesday after a funeral home overwhelmed by the coronavirus resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks, and a passerby com...

Apr 30, 2020