Category Archives: World
US consumer confidence climbed to 15-year high in December
WASHINGTON - American consumers are the sunniest they’ve been in more than 15 years. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index climbed to 113.7 in December, up from 10...
Dec 27, 2016
Asian shares mixed after Nasdaq hits record high
TOKYO - Shares meandered in quiet trading in Asia on Wednesday after the Dow Jones industrial average inched closer to 20,000 and the Nasdaq Composite rose to a record high. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’...
Dec 27, 2016
US home prices rise 5.1 per cent in October
WASHINGTON - U.S. home prices rose again in October as buyers bidding for scarce properties drove prices higher. The Standard & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 5....
Dec 27, 2016
Berlin calls off show of works from Tehran art museum
Berlin’s museum authority says it has scrapped plans for an exhibition of works from the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art because Iran hasn’t granted permission for their export. The exhi...
Dec 27, 2016
Death toll from tainted liquor climbs to 31 in Pakistan
MULTAN, Pakistan - At least 31 people have died from drinking tainted liquor over the Christmas holiday in Pakistan, police and doctors said Tuesday, raising an earlier toll. Local police officer Atif...
Dec 27, 2016
12 injured as airliner veers off runway in western India
NEW DELHI - India’s Jet Airways said that 12 passengers were injured during an emergency evacuation Tuesday after one of its planes veered off the runway before taking off on a domestic flight i...
Dec 27, 2016
Winter storm weakens but thousands still without power
CHICAGO - The furious winter storm that swept into the northern Great Plains on Christmas Day weakened Tuesday, but thousands remained without power in the Dakotas and Michigan. High winds and driftin...
Dec 27, 2016
China plans to land probes on far side of moon, Mars by 2020
BEIJING - China vowed Tuesday to speed up the development of its space industry as it set out its plans to become the first country to soft land a probe on the far side of the moon, by around 2018, an...
Dec 27, 2016
Philippines searches for 18 crewmen of ship sunk by typhoon
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine coast guard pressed its search Tuesday for 18 crewmen from a cargo ship that sank at the height of Typhoon Nock-Ten, which struck the country on Christmas Day. Coa...
Dec 27, 2016
Investigators study flight recorder from Black Sea jet crash
SOCHI, Russia - Investigators recovered the flight-data recorder from a crashed Russian military plane Tuesday and began reviewing its contents to learn why the jet went down moments after takeoff, ki...
Dec 27, 2016