World

Fendi lets sun shine on post-Lagerfeld era, glancing back

MILAN - A nave streak is running through the collections on preview during Milan Fashion Week - with a return to simpler times, yesteryear prints and patterns and unfussy silhouettes. Checked gingham ...

Sep 19, 2019

Poland's top filmmakers protest festival admission rules

WARSAW, Poland - Academy Award-winning Pawel Pawlikowski and other top Polish filmmakers are demanding artistic independence for the nation's most prestigious film festival after a politically charged...

Sep 19, 2019

Trump sues Manhattan DA seeking to block tax return subpoena

NEW YORK - President Donald Trump is asking a federal judge to block an effort by New York prosecutors to obtain his tax returns. Trump's attorneys filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court in N...

Sep 19, 2019

'Jeopardy!' host Trebek says he's resumed chemotherapy

NEW YORK - "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek says he's had a setback in his battle with pancreatic cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy again. Trebek told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday that afte...

Sep 19, 2019

Progress reported in contract talks between GM, union

DETROIT - Faced with weakening sales, a deteriorating global economy and an unpredictable trade war, General Motors and striking auto workers appeared to be making progress Tuesday toward a four-year ...

Sep 19, 2019

Trump says gun negotiations going 'very slowly'

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is pouring cold water on prospects for a bipartisan compromise on gun legislation, even as his aides circulate a draft plan on Capitol Hill. Trump tells Fox News in...

Sep 19, 2019

Renzi splits Italy's Democrats, shaking govt coalition

ROME - Former Italian Premier Matteo Renzi has left the ruling Democratic Party to set up a new centrist force, in a risky move that further weakens the already shaky government forged only two weeks ...

Sep 19, 2019

Bus crashes carrying country singer Josh Turner's road crew

SHANDON, Calif. - Authorities in central California say a passenger bus has crashed while carrying the road crew for country and gospel singer Josh Turner, leaving one dead and seven injured. Turner a...

Sep 19, 2019

Belgian fighter jet crashes in France, pilot hits power line

PARIS - A Belgian F-16 fighter jet crashed Thursday in western France, damaging a house, setting a field ablaze and leaving a pilot suspended for two hours from a high-voltage electricity line after h...

Sep 19, 2019

Authorities: Separate attacks in Afghanistan kill 48

KABUL - Separate attacks by suicide bombers - one targeting President Ashraf Ghani's election rally and a second that ripped through the centre of the Afghan capital - killed at least 48 people and wo...

Sep 19, 2019