Category Archives: World
Robots? Fat fingers? UK pound endures one of its worst days
LONDON - The British pound endured one of its biggest falls ever on Friday - with some in the markets blaming trading robots or a fat-fingered typo for sending the currency down a precipitous 6 per ce...
Oct 07, 2016
Colorado woman completes 82-mile swim
PHOENIX - A Colorado woman has completed an 82-mile swim across Lake Powell that took her 56 hours. Sarah Thomas of Conifer, Colo., tells The Associated Press she was exhausted and hungry after comple...
Oct 07, 2016
Trump apologizes, but also calls crude remarks a distraction
NEW YORK - Caught on tape making shockingly crude comments about a married woman he tried to seduce, Donald Trump declared in a midnight video, “I was wrong and I apologize.” Yet even as h...
Oct 07, 2016
Hurricane threatens some of South's most storied cities
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Hurricane Matthew spared Florida’s most heavily populated stretch from a catastrophic blow Friday but threatened some of the South’s most historic and picturesque cit...
Oct 07, 2016
'Budgie 9' man leaves Malaysia and urges cultural awareness
CANBERRA, Australia - One of nine Australians who spent four nights in police detention in Malaysia for partying in skimpy swimsuits printed with the Malaysian flag returned to Australia on Friday and...
Oct 07, 2016
Chemical weapon for sale: China's unregulated narcotic
SHANGHAI - For a few thousand dollars, Chinese companies offer to export a powerful chemical that has been killing unsuspecting drug users and is so lethal that it presents a potential terrorism threa...
Oct 07, 2016
LA-area couple charged with killing toddler found in duffel
SAN DIEGO - A Los Angeles-area couple is charged with murder after trying to cross into Mexico with the body of a 2-year-old girl in a duffel bag. Mercy Becerra and Johnny Hartley also are charged wit...
Oct 06, 2016
A bit wild: Asian animal cafes go from mere cats to meerkats
BANGKOK - Cat cafes where customers sip lattes while petting resident kitties are just opening their doors around the U.S. and Europe. But in Asia, where the first one opened more than a decade ago, t...
Oct 06, 2016
3 charged with unlawfully shipping military tech to Russia
NEW YORK - A New York City man and two Russian nationals have been arrested and charged after federal authorities say they were involved in a scheme to unlawfully export advanced military technology u...
Oct 06, 2016
Wing part found on Mauritius confirmed to be part of MH370
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A piece of an aircraft wing found on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has been identified as belonging to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Malaysian and Australian of...
Oct 06, 2016