Tweet PARIS — Princess Caroline of Monaco is now a grandmother. A baby boy was the latest addition to the jet set royal family, born to her eldest son Andrea Casiraghi and his fiancée. In a statement, which didn’t mention the baby’s name, the Monaco palace said Princess Caroline is overjoyed at the arrival of [...]
Tweet PARIS — Princess Caroline of Monaco is now a grandmother. A baby boy was the latest addition to the jet set royal family, born to her eldest son Andrea Casiraghi and his fiancée. In a statement, which didn’t mention the baby’s name, the Monaco palace said Princess Caroline is overjoyed at the arrival of [...]
Tweet PHILADELPHIA — Air France says a French man arrested after sitting inside the cockpit of a plane scheduled to fly from Philadelphia is not one of its employees. The airline said Friday that Philippe Jernnard was not wearing the airline’s uniform, did not have a badge verifying he was crew member or was not [...]
Tweet BAGHDAD — Insurgents unleashed deadly attacks Tuesday against Shiite areas in Baghdad, killing at least 34 people and wounding dozens, highlighting increasing sectarian tensions in Iraq a decade after the war began. The morning attacks, mostly by car bombs, targeted mainly small restaurants, daily laborers and bus stops in the Iraqi capital within a [...]
Tweet INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Rafael Nadal defeated error-prone Roger Federer 6-4, 6-2 in the quarterfinals of the BNP Paribas Open on Thursday night in the earliest meeting between the two rivals since they first played each other in 2004. Nadal needed barely 1 1/2 hours to close out the defending champion in their 29th [...]
Tweet WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner says he’s turning town President Barack Obama’s invitation to be in the U.S. delegation to the installation of Pope Francis. The Ohio Republican says in a statement that he’d like to go, but it’s impossible with his duties including the budget debate and hosting the Irish prime minister [...]
Tweet WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama is pushing back against the notion that she and President Barack Obama don’t socialize enough in Washington. The first lady says in an interview in the April issue of Vogue magazine that she and the president were straightforward when they said – before moving from Chicago to Washington in 2009 [...]
Tweet WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama is pushing back against the notion that she and President Barack Obama don’t socialize enough in Washington. The first lady says in an interview in the April issue of Vogue magazine that she and the president were straightforward when they said – before moving from Chicago to Washington in 2009 [...]
Tweet CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez died of a massive heart attack after great suffering and inaudibly mouthed his desire to live, the head of Venezuela’s presidential guard said late Wednesday. “He couldn’t speak but he said it with his lips … `I don’t want to die. Please don’t let me die,’ because he [...]
Tweet MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — For decades, Nelson Mandela’s name has been synonymous with political reform and the struggle against South African apartheid. Now with the launch of House of Mandela Wines, his daughter and granddaughter hope to add fine wine to the list of associations. It’s a sign of just how far both the [...]
