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Explosion rocks downtown Nashville

NASHVILLE - An explosion linked to a vehicle rocked downtown Nashville on Christmas morning, sending shattered glass and debris over a wide area and rocking nearby buildings. The Metro Nashville Polic...

Dec 25, 2020

Leslie West, guitarist of rock band Mountain, has died at 75

LOS ANGELES - Leslie West, an iconic guitarist-vocalist who was behind several '70s rock anthems including "Mississippi Queen" with the popular band Mountain, has died. He was 75. His spokesman Steve ...

Dec 24, 2020

Christmas Eve concert held in Paris' fire-wrecked Notre Dame

PARIS - Wearing hard hats and protective suits, the choir of Notre Dame Cathedral sang inside the medieval Paris landmark for the first time since last year's devastating fire for a special Christmas ...

Dec 24, 2020

NFL honours Mississippi man freed after 22 years in prison

JACKSON, Miss. - The NFL says it is honouring Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Mississippi who was imprisoned more than 22 years and was freed in late 2019, months after the U.S. Supreme Court threw o...

Dec 24, 2020

From ‘Wonder Woman’ to ‘Star Wars,’ Jenkins' rise continues

Years ago, Chris Pine turned "Wonder Woman" down. Then Patty Jenkins came on board and suddenly without even much of a script he found himself under a kind of spell listening to her vision for the fil...

Dec 24, 2020

COVID in California: 2 million confirmed cases and counting

LOS ANGELES - California became the first state to record 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases, reaching the milestone on Christmas Eve as close to the entire state was under a strict stay-at-home or...

Dec 24, 2020

Ex-'Survivor' contestant charged with larceny in Virginia

DANVILLE, Va. - A former "Survivor" contestant has been charged in Virginia with grand larceny, authorities said. Jonny Fairplay, who while competing on the show in 2003 became known for orchestrating...

Dec 24, 2020

Africa CDC: New virus variant appears to emerge in Nigeria

NAIROBI, Kenya - Another new variant of the coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, Africa's top public health official said Thursday, but further investigation is needed. "It's a separate lin...

Dec 24, 2020

Court orders release of man charged in Daniel Pearl killing

KARACHI, Pakistan - A provincial court in Pakistan on Thursday ordered the man charged in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl freed, his defence lawyer said. The Sindh High Court's rel...

Dec 24, 2020

China steps up pressure on Alibaba with anti-monopoly probe

BEIJING - Chinese regulators on Thursday announced an anti-monopoly investigation of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, stepping up the ruling Communist Party's efforts to control fast-growing tech indus...

Dec 23, 2020