Category Archives: World
No free lunch: Donors come forward to erase students' debts
Ashley C. Ford felt driven to act by a sad fact of life in the nation’s school cafeterias: Kids with unpaid lunch accounts are often embarrassed with a substitute meal of a cold cheese sandwich ...
Jan 31, 2017
Famous San Francisco baseball bar to close, future uncertain
San Francisco is girding for a legal showdown over one of its most beloved and now shuttering institutions: a baseball memorabilia bar in tourist-heavy Union Square named for legendary batter and city...
Jan 31, 2017
New Indonesia tsunami network could add crucial minutes
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia’s tsunami detection system, made up of seafloor sensors that communicate with transmitting buoys on the surface, has been rendered useless by vandals and lack of f...
Jan 31, 2017
US consumer confidence slips in January from 15-year high
WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer confidence slipped this month after surging to a 15-year high in December. The Conference Board, a business research group, says its consumer confidence index dropped to 111...
Jan 31, 2017
Asian shares mostly higher on strong manufacturing data
TOKYO - Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Wednesday, lifted by upbeat manufacturing data from China and Japan. The U.S. dollar was steady, regaining some lost ground after falling on comments by Pr...
Jan 31, 2017
Gov. John Kasich of Ohio will have book out in April
NEW YORK - Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a prominent Republican detractor of President Donald Trump, has a book deal. Thomas Dunne Books says Tuesday that Kasich’s “Two Paths: America Divided or ...
Jan 31, 2017
Only on AP: Falcons worried about handling of painkillers
A string of emails that began in 2010 with the Atlanta Falcons head trainer and reached all the way to owner Arthur Blank showed a franchise worried about its “excessive” reliance on paink...
Jan 31, 2017
Co-defendant in French art heist says he destroyed paintings
PARIS - A co-defendant in one of the world’s biggest art heists testified in court Monday that he destroyed and threw away five art masterpieces worth more than $100 million that were stolen by ...
Jan 31, 2017
German proposal wins for best idea to cover Verona Arena
MILAN - A controversial project to cover the Verona Arena has nudged forward with the announcement that a German proposal has won a competition for the best proposal to shield the ancient Roman amphit...
Jan 31, 2017
US home prices rise 5.3 pct. amid solid demand, tight supply
WASHINGTON - U.S. home prices marched steadily higher in November, pushed up by healthy demand for homes and a shrinking supply of available properties. The Standard & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-...
Jan 31, 2017