Category Archives: World
'Avengers: Endgame' obliterates records with $1.2B opening
NEW YORK - The universe belongs to Marvel. “Avengers: Endgame” shattered the record for biggest opening weekend with an estimated $350 million in ticket sales domestically and $1.2 billion...
Apr 28, 2019
Richard Lugar, who helped in securing Soviet arsenal, dies
INDIANAPOLIS - Richard Lugar worked to alert Americans about the threat of terrorism years before “weapons of mass destruction” became a common phrase following the Sept. 11 attacks. The l...
Apr 28, 2019
Prince Harry's transformation: The kid's all right
LONDON - Princess Diana’s little boy - the red-haired prince with the mischievous smile and his mother’s wild streak - is about to become a father. The arrival any day now of Prince Harry&...
Apr 28, 2019
Socialists win Spain election, far-right emerges as player
MADRID - Spain’s governing centre-left Socialists won the country’s election Sunday but must seek backing from smaller parties to maintain power, while a far-right party rode an unpreceden...
Apr 28, 2019
Seattle college says student was among those killed by crane
SEATTLE - A college freshman was among the four people killed when a construction crane fell from a building and crashed onto one of Seattle’s busiest streets, the university said Sunday. Sarah ...
Apr 28, 2019
4 German skiers die in avalanche in Switzerland
BERLIN - An avalanche in southern Switzerland has killed four German skiers, police said Sunday. Police in the canton (region) of Valais said the group was buried by the avalanche on Friday near the v...
Apr 28, 2019
No Mass for Sri Lanka's Catholics; no veils for Muslim women
AMPARA, Sri Lanka - The effects of Sri Lanka’s Easter suicide bombings reverberated across two faiths Sunday, with Catholics shut out of their churches for fear of new attacks, left with only a ...
Apr 28, 2019
Model in Sao Paulo dies after taking ill on catwalk
RIO DE JANEIRO - A model participating in Sao Paulo’s Fashion Week has died after getting sick and falling on the catwalk. A statement from organizers said Tales Soares took ill Saturday while i...
Apr 27, 2019
5 bodies found in Tennessee, suspect captured after manhunt
WESTMORELAND, Tenn. - An officer in rural Tennessee shot the suspect in the investigation into the discovery of five bodies in two homes, capping an hours-long manhunt Saturday that ended with his cap...
Apr 27, 2019
Rabbi says gun 'miraculously jammed' in California attack
POWAY, Calif. - In the minutes after the gunman fled the scene of a shooting that killed a woman inside a Southern California synagogue, a wounded Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein wrapped his bloodied hand in ...
Apr 27, 2019