Category Archives: World

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A search resumed Monday for 17 people reported missing after a ferry fire off the coast of Indonesia’s capital that left at least 23 dead, officials said. The victims died S...

NEW YORK - Confetti fell, fireworks boomed and TV cameras rolled as a massive crowd in Times Square said goodbye to a dizzying year dominated by a bitter presidential election and gave a full-throated...

NEW YORK - TV host Ryan Seacrest says he and about five other people got stuck in a Times Square elevator before an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and were rescued by fir...

NEW YORK - The Latest on New York’s New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square (all times local): 12:25 a.m. An estimated 1 million revelers have rung in the new year in Times Square. Uni...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea’s development of banned long-range missiles is in “final stages,” the country’s leader Kim Jong Un was quoted as saying in his New Year&...

KINSHASA, Congo - Political parties in Congo signed a deal late Saturday that calls for President Joseph Kabila to leave power after an election that now will be held by the end of next year instead o...

AUSTIN, Texas - A federal judge in Texas on Saturday ordered a halt to another Obama administration effort to strengthen transgender rights, this time over health rules that social conservatives say c...

Ban Ki-moon ends 10 years at the helm of the United Nations lamenting the “fires still burning” from Syria to South Sudan but buoyed by a global agreement to combat climate change and new ...

NEW YORK - Genealogy detectives have discovered that Benedict Cumberbatch, the British actor who portrays Sherlock Holmes in the PBS television series, is distantly related to the author who created t...

CHICAGO - Hundreds of people carried crosses Saturday for each person slain in Chicago this year during a quiet march along Michigan Avenue. The three-foot-tall crosses were engraved with the name of ...