Category Archives: World
Self-fueling boat sets off from Paris on 6-year world trip
PARIS - A boat that fuels itself is setting off around the world from Paris on a six-year journey that its designers hope will serves as a model for emissions-free energy networks of the future. Energ...
Jul 15, 2017
Tuskegee Syphilis Study descendants to seek settlement money
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Descendants of hundreds of black men who were left untreated for syphilis during an infamous government study want a judge to give them any money remaining from a $9 million legal s...
Jul 15, 2017
2 Penn State ex-officials begin jail terms in Sandusky case
Two former high-ranking Penn State administrators surrendered Saturday morning to serve jail sentences for how they responded to a 2001 complaint about Jerry Sandusky showering with a boy. Former univ...
Jul 15, 2017
Family scatters Chinese Nobel laureate's ashes into the sea
SHENYANG, China - Family members of Liu Xiaobo scattered the Nobel Peace Prize laureate’s ashes into the sea on Saturday in funeral proceedings closely orchestrated by the Chinese government fol...
Jul 15, 2017
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin rolling out the red carpet for Mars
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The second person to walk on the moon is rolling out the red carpet for the red planet. Buzz Aldrin is hosting a sold-out gala for his non-profit space education foundation, Sha...
Jul 15, 2017
Georgia elections chief plans changes after security issues
ATLANTA - Georgia’s top elections official stood out by refusing help from the Department of Homeland Security last August amid national concerns about the integrity of U.S. elections. Republica...
Jul 15, 2017
Afghan girls robotics team arrives in US just in time
WASHINGTON - Twice rejected for U.S. visas, an all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan arrived in Washington early Saturday after an extraordinary, last-minute intervention by President Donald Trump....
Jul 15, 2017
6 Congo rangers safe; US journalist, 3 others still missing
KINSHASA, Congo - Six Congolese rangers were found Saturday in a large forest reserve in Congo’s northeast a day after a security station was attacked by militia, but an American journalist and ...
Jul 15, 2017
Turks commemorate 1 year since failed coup with huge march
ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to “rip the heads off” of terror groups and coup-plotters who tried to end his more than decade-long rule on Saturday, as Turkey marked the ...
Jul 15, 2017
Some residents couldn't hear alarms in deadly Honolulu blaze
HONOLULU - As flames raged through a Honolulu high-rise building, killing three people and injuring a dozen others, some residents didn’t even realize a blaze had broken out until they opened th...
Jul 15, 2017