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Led by 'Marriage Story,' Netflix dominates Golden Globe noms

NEW YORK - A Netflix wave swept over the 77th Golden Globe nominations, where the streaming company dominated with 34 total nominations, including four films up for best picture and four series nomina...

Dec 11, 2019

A$AP Rocky to perform in Stockholm months after conviction

STOCKHOLM - A$AP Rocky is back in Sweden. The American rapper is set to perform in Stockholm, where he was convicted of assault in August for a street brawl. The artist, whose real name is Rakim Mayer...

Dec 11, 2019

Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time 'person of the year'

NEW YORK - Teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Time's youngest "person of the year" on Wednesday. Thunberg, 16, has become the face of the youth climate movement, drawing large c...

Dec 11, 2019

Oink oink, cha-ching: $3 million found in barrels of pork

SHELBY, N.C. - Barrels of raw pork shoulder were riding fat in a tractor trailer pulled over by North Carolina deputies. Approximately $3 million in cash was recovered from the barrels Saturday, the C...

Dec 11, 2019

Thunberg accuses leaders of 'creative PR' at climate talks

MADRID - Activist Greta Thunberg accused the business and political leaders of misleading the public by holding climate talks that are not achieving real action against what she called the world's "cl...

Dec 11, 2019

Too much of a Greta thing? Activist urges focus on others

MADRID - With dozens of cameras pointing at her across a room full of reporters, celebrity teen environmentalist Greta Thunberg had an unexpected message: Look the other way. "Our stories have been to...

Dec 11, 2019

Sarajevo officials: Nobel winner Handke not welcome in city

SARAJEVO, Bosnia - Nobel Literature Prize laureate Peter Handke was on Wednesday proclaimed persona non grata in the Bosnian capital for his apologist views toward Serb war crimes during the war in th...

Dec 11, 2019

Kosovo, Albania to boycott Nobel Literature award ceremony

PRISTINA, Kosovo - Kosovo and Albania say they will boycott the Nobel Literature Prize ceremony Tuesday to protest the award being given to Austrian writer Peter Handke who both countries link to the ...

Dec 11, 2019

Anti-doping agency imposes 4-year ban on Russia

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Russia was slapped Monday with a four-year ban from international sports events, including next summer's Tokyo Olympics, over a longstanding doping scandal, although its athlet...

Dec 11, 2019

Saudi Aramco starts trading after record $25.6 billion IPO

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's oil company Aramco is listed and started trading on the Saudi Tadawul stock exchange on Wednesday for the first time after a mammoth $25.6 billion initial public ...

Dec 10, 2019