Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama returned to his roots at the Harvard Law Review on Thursday, penning an article about progress his administration made in reforming the criminal justice system - an...

LONDON - Letters sent by Britain’s late Princess Diana - including one in which she described a young Prince Harry as being “constantly in trouble” while at boarding school - sold fo...

CHICAGO - A judge rebuked four black people accused of beating a mentally disabled white man and broadcasting the attack on Facebook, sternly asking, “Where was your sense of decency?” bef...

A fire broke out on an oil production platform in the Gulf of Mexico early Thursday, forcing four workers to evacuate by lifeboat before the blaze was extinguished. There were no injuries and inspecto...

BERLIN - Easter has come early to the German North Sea island of Langeoog. A flood of plastic eggs containing tiny toys has been swept ashore after a fierce storm, to the delight of the island’s...

STOCKHOLM - One of the Swedish royal family’s palaces is haunted - but the phantoms are “pretty friendly,” says Queen Silvia. “There are ghosts, many,” Silvia says of the...

ISTANBUL - Police on Thursday conducted more raids in their hunt for the gunman that killed 39 people including a Canadian at an Istanbul nightclub, detaining several people at a housing complex in th...

WASHINGTON - Brushing aside Donald Trump’s dismissiveness, the nation’s intelligence chief insisted Thursday that U.S. agencies are more confident than ever that Russia interfered in Ameri...

WASHINGTON - Under increasing pressure to free convicts as a last act, President Barack Obama is planning at least one more batch of pardons and commutations before leaving office in two weeks, but do...

MILWAUKEE - The zookeepers at the Milwaukee County Zoo are hand-raising a lone Amur tiger cub - an unusual undertaking only done in order to save the cub’s life. Vets and zookeepers had to give ...