Category Archives: World

PORTLAND, Maine - The European Union’s talk of trying to ban Maine lobsters hasn’t stopped them from becoming holiday meals in places like France, Italy and Spain. Lobsters are a Christmas...

LONDON - Rick Parfitt, a hard-rocking British guitarist and songwriter who had multiple hits over the decades with the rock band Status Quo, has died in Spain at age 68. His manager, Simon Porter, and...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Republicans are poised to use their newly attained capitol dominance to make Missouri the 27th right-to-work state prohibiting mandatory union fees. That is unless Kentucky’...

Republicans emerge from the November elections holding their greatest level of power in decades. Not only will Republicans control the White House and Congress, but the GOP also will hold 33 governors...

CLEVELAND - Police on Saturday identified the veteran Cleveland officer whose 2-year-old son died after apparently shooting himself with his father’s service weapon. A Cleveland police statement...

SAVANNAH, Ga. - As a girl in the mid-1950s, Amy Roberts would catch a ride each morning with her neighbours the Johnsons, the couple that ran the one-room schoolhouse where black children were taught ...

PARIS - Open borders symbolize liberty and forward thinking for many Europeans - but they increasingly look like the continent’s Achilles’ heel. Europe’s No. 1 terrorism suspect cros...

COPENHAGEN - Sweden’s popular German-born Queen Silvia has been hospitalized on her 73rd birthday because of dizziness. The Swedish royal household says Silvia was kept overnight for observation...

LONDON - Officials say Queen Elizabeth II’s granddaughter, Zara Tindall, has suffered a miscarriage. She and her husband, retired rugby player Mike Tindall, had been expecting their second child...

WASHINGTON - In boasting about his tenure in the White House, President Barack Obama often cites numbers like these: 15 million new jobs, a 4.9 per cent unemployment rate and 74 months of consecutive ...