Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - Warner Bros. on Tuesday delayed the summer release of "Wonder Woman 1984" and removed the adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's "In the Heights" from its schedule due to the coronavirus pandem...

MADRID - Spanish army troops disinfecting nursing homes have found, to their horror, some residents living in squalor among the infectious bodies of people suspected of dying from the new coronavirus,...

NEW YORK - Terrence McNally, one of America's great playwrights whose prolific career included winning Tony Awards for the plays "Love! Valour! Compassion!" and "Master Class" and the musicals "Ragtim...

LONDON - Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli's novel "Lost Children Archive" won the Rathbones Folio Prize for literature on Monday at a ceremony held online because of the coronavirus pandemic. Luiselli ...

NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a "total lockdown" in the country of 1.3 billion people during a televised address Tuesday night, the most extensive stay-at-home order yet in...

WASHINGTON - U.S. new home sales fell 4.4% in February with bigger declines expected in coming months as the coronavirus puts a major crimp on home sales. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that Feb...

WASHINGTON - Top congressional and White House officials say they expect to reach a deal Tuesday on a nearly $2 trillion measure aimed at easing the economic damage inflicted by the coronavirus pandem...

TOKYO - The Tokyo Olympics have been officially postponed until 2021. The International Olympic Committee along with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and local organizers have decided that the Tokyo...

PARIS - Albert Uderzo, one of the two creators of the beloved comic book character Asterix, who captured the spirit of the Gauls of yore and grew a reputation worldwide, died on Tuesday. He was 92. Th...

NEW YORK - Excerpts from Woody Allen's new memoir, "Apropos of Nothing," which was released Monday after a delay because the original publisher backed out of releasing the book. ___ THE BOOK'S DEDICAT...