Category Archives: World
In bid to fight art fraud, Sotheby's acquires forensic lab
NEW YORK - In bid to fight art fraud, Sotheby’s announced Monday that it had purchased a forensics firm whose founder once helped the auction house belatedly identify a $10 million painting as a...
Dec 05, 2016
Jimmy Kimmel to host Academy Awards
NEW YORK - The Oscars finally have a host: Jimmy Kimmel will emcee the 89th Academy Awards. Kimmel will be hosting the show for the first time, the Academy of Motion Pictures said Monday. In September...
Dec 05, 2016
HUD nominee opposes programs that aided rise from poverty
WASHINGTON - Though Ben Carson frequently touts his up-from-the-bootstraps life story, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Housing and Urban Development has voiced little empathy for those w...
Dec 05, 2016
North Carolina Gov. McCrory concedes he lost re-election bid
DURHAM, N.C. - North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory conceded the governor’s race Monday, clearing the way for Democrat Roy Cooper to be declared the winner nearly four weeks after Election Day. The w...
Dec 05, 2016
Stocks track higher after Wall Street hit another record
HONG KONG - Stock markets pushed higher on Tuesday as investors cheered another record day on Wall Street and looked past the political and economic uncertainty buffeting Europe. KEEPING SCORE: France...
Dec 05, 2016
The Latest: Tribal leader: Pipeline opponents should go home
CANNON BALL, N.D. - The Latest on the protest against the construction of the final section of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota. (all times local): 1 p.m. Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Da...
Dec 05, 2016
Police nab suspects, fowl accomplice in break-in
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. - Two suspects in a weekend break-in at a Massachusetts convenience store had a fowl accomplice. Northampton officers investigating a robbery in progress at a store at about 3:45 a....
Dec 05, 2016
Bolivia: Crashed jet's company left trail of unpaid debts
LA PAZ, Bolivia - The airline involved in last week’s crash in the Andes left a trail of unpaid bills that forced Bolivia’s air force to seize two planes and briefly jail one of the compan...
Dec 05, 2016
British Santa tour worker fatally stabbed in Arctic Finland
HELSINKI - Finnish police say they are holding a 36-year-old foreigner suspected of fatally stabbing his female friend in the Arctic wilds of Lapland. Tourism officials say the victim was a British em...
Dec 05, 2016
The Latest: Biden warns fiscal plans reminiscent of 2008
WASHINGTON - The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST): 4:40 p.m. Vice-President Joe Biden says that some of the economic proposals under discussion as a new administration prepares t...
Dec 05, 2016