Tag Archives: International

BRUSSELS - The European Parliament has overwhelming adopted a resolution declaring the entire 27-member European Union a "freedom zone" for LGBT people, an effort to push back on rising homophobia in ...

NEMI, Italy - A looted mosaic that once decorated a ship of the Roman Emperor Caligula and ended up as a coffee table in New York City finally returned home Thursday, as details emerged about the luck...

SAN RAMON, Calif. - Uber and Lyft have teamed up to create a database of drivers ousted from their ride-hailing services for complaints about sexual assault and other crimes that have raised passenger...

LONDON - Christie's says it has auctioned off a digital collage by an artist named Beeple for nearly $70 million, in an unprecedented sale of a digital artwork that fetched more money than physical wo...

NEW YORK - Oh, the books that sold last week by Dr. Seuss. More than 1.2 million copies of stories by the late children's author sold in the first week of March - more than quadruple from the week bef...

NEW YORK - The Sundance Film Festival is coming to Jakarta, Indonesia this summer, the Sundance Institute and XRM Media said Thursday. The Sundance Film Festival: Asia will launch sometime in late sum...

FRANKFURT - German luxury automaker BMW says net profit fell 23% last year to 3.86 billion euros ($4.62 billion) as the pandemic shuttered factories in the first part of the year. The maker of the X5 ...

FRANKFURT - The European Central Bank said it would step up its bond-purchase stimulus to support an economy whose recovery is expected to lag a year behind the rebound in the U.S., held back by slow ...

WASHINGTON - Companies posted more open jobs in January while layoffs decreased as the economy heals slowly from the pandemic. There were 6.9 million jobs available on the last day in January, up from...

JOHNSTON, R.I. - Where's the beef? Still very much on the mooove in Rhode Island. More than a month after escaping while being unloaded at a slaughterhouse, a 1,600-pound (725-kilogram) steer is still...