Category Archives: World

NASHVILLE - Artists and organizations in Music City are stepping up to help their neighbours after devastating wildfires damaged about 2,500 buildings and caused 14 deaths in the Gatlinburg area. Coun...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A former police detective told jurors Friday he believes that having a “Cops” television crew present damaged the Dalia Dippolito murder-for-hire investigation by c...

OAKLAND, Calif. - A popular sound engineer, a young attorney and a woman described as a visionary were among the people killed in a fire that engulfed a dance party inside an Oakland warehouse. The Al...

LONDON - Britain’s Prince Andrew wants the media to leave his daughters alone. The prince issued a strongly worded personal statement on Friday calling for an end to “speculation and innue...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - President Barack Obama responded to appeals from Alaska Native villages and gave them more of a say in the federal management of marine resources of the Bering Sea. Obama signed an...

BROWNSTOWN, Pa. - The aunt of a 2-year-old Pennsylvania girl who died after being pinned against a barn by a minivan says she was trying to scare the kids by speeding toward them honking her horn, but...

DETROIT - Companies can now test self-driving cars on Michigan public roads without a driver or steering wheel under new laws that could push the state to the forefront of autonomous vehicle developme...

LONDON - A fascination with spies and scandals, combined with deep patience and persistence, made Phillip Knightley a legend among investigative journalists. Knightley, who has died aged 87, helped ga...

ISTANBUL - A Turkish court on Friday dropped a case against Israeli military officials charged in the deaths of 10 Turkish activists who had sought to breach the naval blockade on Gaza in 2010, Turkey...

PARIS - Both Nadine Mahe des Portes and the rat panicked when she inadvertently stepped on it on her walk back from work through Paris. “I heard a terrible squeak,” the property agent reca...