Alpine threat heating up
Winter tourist towns need to adapt
DATE: Sep 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
World Briefs
Croatia lifts blockade along its border
BUDAPEST, Hungary – Croatia lifted its blockade of the border with Serbia on Friday, as southeastern Europe’s squabbling governments took s...
DATE: Sep 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
What’s hot for Halloween? Turtles, Walking Dead
PARAMUS, N.J. – Expect to see a lot of Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo and Raphael this Halloween.
Some of the most popular costumes are expected to be based on the reptilian s...
DATE: Sep 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Pink diamond could bring $28M at auction
NEW YORK – A pink diamond the size of a postage stamp is going on the auction block, and it’s estimated to bring as much as $28 million.
The 16.08-carat gem is poised to set a rec...
DATE: Sep 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
CSS Hunley gets restored
For more than a century, the CSS Hunley rested at the bottom of the ocean just outside Charleston harbor, its crew entombed, its hull gradually encased in hardening encrustations.
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DATE: Sep 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Bill Clinton appears in virtual-reality movie
NEW YORK – As world leaders descend on the United Nations this weekend, former President Bill Clinton will be taking them to East Africa through virtual reality.
Viewers with spec...
DATE: Sep 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Derelict hospital as metaphor
NEW YORK – A derelict Naval hospital that treated soldiers from the Civil War through World War II is the site of an art installation that deals with the wounds of war and the human power of...
DATE: Sep 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Pope beseeches world leaders to protect the environment
NEW YORK – Pope Francis declared Friday that there is a “right of the environment” and that mankind has no authority to abuse it, telling more than 100 world leaders and diplomats at the Uni...
DATE: Sep 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Boehner stuns Congress, announces resignation
WASHINGTON – Plunging Congress into deeper turmoil, House Speaker John Boehner abruptly announced his resignation Friday, shutting down a tea party drive to depose the nation’s highest-ranki...
DATE: Sep 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
World Briefs
Barriers remain for peace in Colombia
BOGOTA, Colombia – A diplomatic breakthrough leaves many problems standing between Colombia and the prospect of peace after generations of ar...
DATE: Sep 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Putin, Obama to meet on Monday
Crises in Syria, Ukraine to be discussed
DATE: Sep 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nation Briefs
Mother calls police shooting ‘unjust’
WILMINGTON, Del. – The police shooting of a man in a wheelchair was “unjust,” his mother said Thursday, but authorities described a different...
DATE: Sep 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
