International News

While more details emerge about Saturday's mass shooting in Orlando -- the worst mass shooting in U.S. history -- the world continues to mourn.

I'm reminded of a line from one of the Batman movies, "Some men just want to watch the world burn." When an event traumatizes people all over the world, it seems like there are those who pour gasoline on the fire. Bogus news items appear on the internet, especially in social media...

Celebrities like Mandy Moore, Andy Cohen and Julianne Moore are heartbroken — and angry — over the tragic mass shooting at Pulse.

The official Twitter account of the NFL was recently hacked by a prankster who tweeted a bogus report of Commissioner Roger Goodell's death. If they got hacked, imagine how easily the average user could be compromised.

The world was reeling from the terrorist attacks in Brussels when Adele took the stage in London Tuesday night.

A series of explosions seared through Brussels, Belgium, on Tuesday, causing multiple fatalities.

Watch what happened when student drivers were required to pass a "text while driving" test...

Five years ago, Joao Pereira de Souza came across a penguin that was near death on the Brazilian coast. He was covered in oil, and starving to death. The retired bricklayer took the penguin home, fed him and spent almost a week cleaning off the thick coating of oil. De Souza named him Dindim, and cared for the bird 'til he was well enough to return to the wild. De Souza didn't realize he'd made a friend for life...

He is the most interesting man in the world...Check that. He was. The folks at Dos Equis have decided to bring the nearly decade long run of Johnathan Goldsmith as their spokesman to an end.

You owe your life to a woman, no matter who you are. A woman gained a lot of weight, had to make frequent runs to the bathroom, and endured multiple discomforts, including labor, just to give birth to you...

A farmer in China's Sichuan Province is out 20,000 Yuan (roughly the equivalent of $3,000) because it was eaten by bugs.

Canadians are no longer allowed to compete on a TV that features a Canadian host. How weird is that, eh? Longtime Jeopardy host Alex Trebek is a native of Sudbury, Ontario, and frequently lets his national pride show. So, why would he have anything to do with excluding his countrymen from competing on the popular game show?

Francis condemned abortion at the same time, saying that 'avoiding a pregnancy' is not an 'absolute evil' like ending a pregnancy.

Pope Francis' plane landed safely in Mexico City after its pilot was targeted by a laser pointer.

When Sir Paul McCartney was refused entry to a post Grammy party Monday night, he was heard to comment, "How VIP we gotta get?" Sir Paul has been knighted by the queen of England, and inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame twice. He has 36 #1 singles as a solo artist, and with the Beatles, and has won 18 Grammys...

A million dollar international network trafficking Romanian children to France has been broken by Europol.

I'm not particularly a fan of Beyonce', and only caught bits of her halftime performance at Super Bowl 50. I was going back & forth between the kitchen & living room, making gumbo. It seems most people remember more about her allegedly racist performance, and Cam Newton's post game display of immaturity than the game...

Pope Francis has made quite a splash during his reign as head of the Roman Catholic Church. The highly charismatic pontiff has recorded a pop music album. He's now set to appear in a feature film...

"Obviously a major malfunction"...Those words are indelibly etched in my memory. I was on the air at KTDY when the space shuttle Challenger exploded. It was January 28th, 1986...

An all female crew spent 9 months rowing from California to Australia. They are the first all woman rowing crew to cross the the South Pacific in a rowboat.