False alarm leads to major police operation in central Paris

PARIS French police conducted a security operation on Saturday in a busy shopping district in central Paris and said it had ended with no sign of danger.

During the operation, the official French government security alert application said that a police operation was underway in Saint Leu church in the Chatelet neighborhood and advised people to stay away.




Florida expands Zika zone in Miami Beach after five new cases


State officials in Florida on Friday tripled the active Zika transmission zone in the trendy seaside community of Miami Beach after five new cases of the mosquito-borne virus believed to cause a severe birth defect were identified in the area.




GM, Canada union in final talks ahead of strike deadline


TORONTO General Motors Co and the Canadian union Unifor began the final stretch of talks on Saturday, divided ahead of a looming strike deadline over union demands that the U.S. carmaker commit to new vehicle models at its Oshawa, Ontario plant.




Slain black youth's BB gun called 'almost identical' to real weapon


COLUMBUS, Ohio The mayor of Columbus, Ohio, said on Friday that the air pistol brandished at police by a black, 13-year-old boy as he was shot dead by a white officer this week was nearly indistinguishable from weapons carried by members of the city's police force.