Author Archives: Associated Press

NEW YORK - Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson says "depression never discriminates." The actor in an interview with the Sunday Express talks about his struggles with depression and his mother's suicide attempt...

FORT WORTH, Texas - Ethan Couch, who as a 16-year-old driver drunkenly struck and killed four pedestrians but dodged prison after suggesting at trial that his irresponsibility was a result of his enti...

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's state broadcaster says Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, prominent anti-apartheid activist and the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, has died. She was 81. Madikizela-Mandela was marrie...

The Associated Press VATICAN CITY - On Christianity's most joyful day, Pope Francis called for peace in a world marked by war and conflict, "beginning with the beloved and long-suffering land of Syria...

Gregory Katz, The Associated Press LONDON - Hundreds of people lined the streets of the English city of Cambridge on Saturday, breaking into applause as the hearse carrying the remains of famed Britis...

By Jay Cohen, The Associated Press CHICAGO - Scott Foster thought it was going to be just another night. Then the 36-year-old accountant signed a contract, put on his goaltender gear and waited in Chi...

BERN, Switzerland - Scientists have the dirt on rubber ducky: Those cute yellow bath-time friends are, as some parents have long suspected, a haven for nasty bugs. Swiss and American researchers count...

By Jim Vertuno And Will Weissert, The Associated Press PFLUGERVILLE, Texas - A 25-minute cellphone video left behind by the bomber whose deadly explosives terrorized Austin for weeks details the diffe...

OTTAWA - A Canadian data expert who set off an international uproar over the alleged leak of private Facebook user data lost his job years ago in the office of former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff,...

DULUTH, Minn. - Former women's hockey coach, Saskatchewan- born Shannon Miller was awarded nearly US$3.75 million after suing the University of Minnesota Duluth for discrimination and retaliation. The...