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Digital artwork auctions for $69 million amid online craze
LONDON - Christie's says it has auctioned off a digital collage by an artist named Beeple for nearly $70 million, in an unprecedented sale of a digital artwork that fetched more money than physical wo...
Mar 11, 2021
Uber, Lyft team up on database to expose abusive drivers
SAN RAMON, Calif. - Uber and Lyft have teamed up to create a database of drivers ousted from their ride-hailing services for complaints about sexual assault and other crimes that have raised passenger...
Mar 11, 2021
Emperor's mosaic displayed in Italy after stint as NYC table
NEMI, Italy - A looted mosaic that once decorated a ship of the Roman Emperor Caligula and ended up as a coffee table in New York City finally returned home Thursday, as details emerged about the luck...
Mar 11, 2021
Parliament votes to declare entire EU an LGBT 'freedom zone'
BRUSSELS - The European Parliament has overwhelming adopted a resolution declaring the entire 27-member European Union a "freedom zone" for LGBT people, an effort to push back on rising homophobia in ...
Mar 11, 2021
Nova Scotia to restrict possession of police gear almost year after mass shooting
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government is introducing restrictions on access to used police gear in reaction to last year's mass shooting by a gunman who wore an RCMP uniform and drove a replica police ...
Mar 11, 2021
Middaugh beats Jacobs to lock up spot in championship round at Brier
CALGARY - A Wayne Middaugh-skipped Wild Card Three rink has secured a berth in the championship round at the Canadian men's curling championship. Middaugh, who is skipping the Ontario rink in place of...
Mar 11, 2021
Anniversary of COVID-19 pandemic passes unnoticed among mask-wearing Texans
AUSTIN, Texas - The one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic is passing largely unnoticed in the Texas capital. Even though Gov. Greg Abbott has fully lifted statewide restrictions, people are pe...
Mar 11, 2021
No evidence Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is behind blood clots, Canadian experts say
OTTAWA - Canadian health authorities are keeping a watchful eye on European investigations of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after reports of blood clots following inoculations, but say there is no ev...
Mar 11, 2021
Oh, what a birthday week for Dr. Seuss books
NEW YORK - Oh, the books that sold last week by Dr. Seuss. More than 1.2 million copies of stories by the late children's author sold in the first week of March - more than quadruple from the week bef...
Mar 11, 2021
Portable, rapid-testing units grease wheels in Calgary curling bubble, Canadian sport
CALGARY - The men curling in the Canadian championship don't much care there's a small, silver box processing their nasal and throat swabs in a matter of hours, but the result it produces matters deep...
Mar 11, 2021
