PARIS, France -- The first female managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, went on trial on Monday in a French court for alleged misuse of public funds. The charge of negligence stems from a €425 million payment to a French businessman in...
Hot on the heels of her success at the American Music Awards (AMA), Barbados’ pop princess Rihanna continues her reign with a whopping eight nominations for the 2017 Grammy Awards. The impressive tally places her a heartbeat behind Beyonce, with nine nods, who Rihanna will face...
More than 60 Democratic members of Congress are urging President Obama to protect the hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who signed up for his deferred action program before he leaves office next month. “You have pardoned hundreds and hundreds of people convicted for drug offenses,”...
WASHINGTON, DC, USA (AP) — Time magazine yesterday named President-elect Donald Trump as its Person of the Year. “It’s a great honour. It means a lot,” Trump said in a telephone interview on NBC’s Today show. Time editor Nancy Gibbs said on the programme that Democrat Hillary...
[caption id="attachment_15637" align="alignleft" width="300"] An employee with medicinal marijuana plants in the flowering room at Tweed INC in Smith Falls, Ontario, on Monday[/caption] MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AFP) — Marijuana-friendly Uruguay will soon have a museum dedicated to ganja. “It is a way to connect people who love nature,...