Category Archives: World

TOKYO - Global shares rose Wednesday as gains in the U.S. and Asian markets carried over into European trading. The Tokyo benchmark jumped in the opening day for 2017, helped by a weak yen. KEEPING SC...

WASHINGTON - U.S. builders boosted spending on construction projects for a second straight month in November, pushing activity to the highest level in more than a decade. Construction spending rose 0....

NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 4:00 p.m. The stock market turned in a solid gain on the first trading day of 2017, led by health care and phone companies...

RUMSON, N.J. - “The Boss” is questioning whether President-elect Donald Trump is ready to take office. During an interview on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast released Monday, ...

YANGON, Myanmar - Newly revealed video of Myanmar police beating Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine state has weakened months of government claims that its forces have not committed abuses in the te...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Former Bishop Thomas Dupre, the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States to be indicted on a sexual-abuse claim during the flood of abuse accusations against church offici...

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. - Twins delivered at a Florida hospital over the New Year’s weekend have different birth years, with one born in 2016 and the other in 2017. News outlets report that Geraldine ...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter to vow that North Korea won’t develop a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the United States. But it might ...

JERUSALEM - Israel’s prime minister is denying wrongdoing a day after he was questioned by police for more than three hours over corruption allegations. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote o...

BERLIN - Germany’s interior minister is proposing a security shake-up that could include creating “federal departure centres” to ease the deportation of rejected asylum-seekers and c...