Category Archives: World
Katie Couric returns to 'Today' show as guest co-anchor
NEW YORK - Longtime “Today” show viewers are being treated to a familiar sight this week as Katie Couric returns to the co-anchor chair for the first time in more than a decade. Couric rej...
Jan 02, 2017
University of Wisconsin-Madison student was on missing plane
CLEVELAND - A University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman and her father were among six people aboard a plane that disappeared over Lake Erie as the group was returning from a Cleveland Cavaliers game, t...
Jan 02, 2017
A look at some of the 39 people killed in Istanbul attack
ISTANBUL - At least 39 people were killed and nearly 70 injured in the mass shooting that took place in front of and inside a popular Istanbul nightclub in the first hours of New Year’s Day. The...
Jan 02, 2017
Syrian arrested in Germany over alleged IS attack plan
BERLIN - A Syrian man has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of seeking 180,000 euros ($190,000) from the Islamic State group to buy vehicles that he intended to use for one or several bomb attacks...
Jan 02, 2017
At least 56 inmates killed in prison riot in northern Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO - An attack by members of one crime gang on rival inmates touched off a riot at a prison in the northern state of Amazonas, leaving at least 56 dead, including several who were beheaded...
Jan 02, 2017
Trump spokesman: President-elect wants more info on Russia
WASHINGTON - Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer is defending cryptic comments by President-elect Donald Trump that he knows “things that other people don’t know” when i...
Jan 02, 2017
Airstrike in Syria kills 8 jihadi militants
BEIRUT - An air raid has struck several cars in northwestern Syria, killing at least eight people, including al-Qaida-linked fighters and a senior commander with a Chinese Islamic militant faction, an...
Jan 02, 2017
Stocks start 2017 with gains, but many markets stay shut
LONDON - Global stocks rose on the first day of 2017, though trading volumes were thin as many major markets observed New Year’s holidays. KEEPING SCORE: Germany’s DAX closed 1 per cent hi...
Jan 02, 2017
Authorities: 4 killed at home in apparent murder-suicide
LEXINGTON, S.C. - Authorities in South Carolina say four people were found dead in a home in what appears to be a murder-suicide. Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher said in a news release that t...
Jan 02, 2017
Afghan sets self alight at German supermarket warehouse
BERLIN - German police say that a 19-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker has suffered serious burns after setting himself on fire at a supermarket warehouse in Bavaria. Police said that the man poured gasol...
Jan 02, 2017