Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has tamped down any speculation that first lady Michelle Obama may one day run for office herself. In an interview with Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner conducted t...

BEIRUT - A series of artillery rounds lobbed Wednesday on Syria’s eastern Aleppo district killed 26 civilians, including seven children, as they fled a government ground offensive in the besiege...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Five people were killed in two states after at least 13 twisters damaged homes, splintered barns and toppled trees in parts of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, the Nat...

DAMASCUS, Syria - Syria says Israeli jets have fired two missiles from Lebanese airspace toward the outskirts of Damascus. The official Syrian news agency, SANA, says the missiles struck the Sabboura ...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump, that most unconventional of presidential candidates, last spring pledged that he would act perfectly presidential when the time was right. “I will be so presidential t...

BERLIN - German airline Lufthansa said Wednesday it has made a modified pay offer to pilots as it seeks to put an end to a long-running dispute that’s seen a succession of strikes over recent da...

CANBERRA, Australia - Rowdy protesters demonstrating against Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers disrupted Parliament on Wednesday, some gluing their hands to a railing before security offic...

DENVER - Dozens of slinky, ferocious and rare ferrets are settling in and making babies at their new home in Colorado, one year after they were released at a wildlife refuge outside Denver. The U.S. F...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Authorities say one of two inmates who sawed their way out of a California jail and vanished last week has been recaptured. The search continues for the other one. The Santa Clara C...

HARTFORD, Conn. - For a half-century after the deadliest submarine disaster in U.S. history, Navy Capt. Paul “Bud” Rogers struggled with feelings that it should have been him - and not his...