NEW YORK (AP) — The fur is flying at New York City's Algonquin Hotel, where the literary lights of the Round Table used to exchange witty remarks over lunch.
One of the hotel's other traditions is the succession of cats that have had free run of the place for 80 years. But that tradition has ended.
The New York Post reports (http://nyp.st/tS5dnn ) that city health inspectors have banned the current cat, Matilda, from roaming the lobby.
The city Department of …
CLEVELAND (AP) — The Seattle Mariners' game in Cleveland against the Indians was postponed by heavy rain that at one point flooded the outfield at Progressive Field on Saturday.
No makeup date was immediately announced.
A series of showers hit with two outs in the bottom of the first inning with …
FEARS ARREST IN BRITAIN
JERUSALEM - Israeli deputy prime minister Moshe Ya'alon canceled a trip to Britain out of fear that he would be arrested, it was revealed Oct. 5.
Ya'alon was to attend a fundraising dinner by the British Jewish National Fund.
But the Israeli Foreign Ministry said that proPalestinian …
Moldova's President Vladimir Voronin will meet the leader of the separatist Trans-Dniester region for the first time in nearly seven years, the presidential office said Monday.
Voronin and Igor Smirnov discussed plans for their first meeting since June 2001 in a telephone call Monday but a date has not yet been set, Voronin's office said Monday. A statement said the two sides would try to improve relations and build confidence.
Later, Smirnov's office said the separatist leader was willing to meet Voronin "as an equal partner, renouncing any kind of pressures and unilateral decisions that could harm …
A police anti-drug raid in a Sao Paulo slum has enraged inhabitants who burned vehicles and tires in protest.
CBN Radio says residents set fire to a van, a bus and a truck during 90 minutes of upheaval in the Tiqautira neighborhood.
CBN says police arrested a group of young men suspected of being drug dealers.
News footage broadcast by Bandeirantes TV …
NEW ORLEANS The basic problem is, he's too normal to be hip, toonice to be obeyed and too tolerant to be respected. In the sneakylittle world of college basketball, an apple-cheeked, Jethro-voicedfellow named Steve Fisher can't control the runaway publicitylocomotive called the Fab Five. They are an overhyped,underachieving group of doggin', bustin', yip-yappin' players wholack measures of discipline and sportsmanship.
Whither Fisher? He's still back there in Herrin, Ill., hisdot-on-the-map hometown in the downstate wilds. Whither Fisher?He's still back at Rich East High in Park Forest, coaching conferencechampions as cheerleaders kick and moms bake cookies. As he …
LONDON (AP) — UK PM David Cameron says ex-aide Andy …
