Category Archives: World

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The director of a West Virginia development group and a mayor are under scrutiny after a racist post about first lady Michelle Obama caused a backlash and prompted calls on social ...

MARRAKECH, Morocco - China and other countries, including Canada, will stay committed to the Paris Agreement on climate change, irrespective of what the next U.S. administration decides to do, th...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Chelsea Manning, who is more than six years into a 35-year sentence for leaking classified government and military documents to the WikiLeaks website, is asking President Barack Oba...

JERUSALEM - Israel is embarking on a major archaeological expedition to find yet undiscovered Dead Sea Scrolls, an Israeli antiquities official said Monday. Amir Ganor of the Israel Antiquities Author...

LONDON - A British jury has convicted an Italian man of murdering a policeman he met online and trying to dissolve his body in acid, a technique used in the TV show “Breaking Bad.” Jurors ...

MOSCOW - A Russian fighter jet based on an aircraft carrier currently near Syria’s shores has crashed on a training mission, but its pilot has bailed out safely, the Defence Ministry said Monday...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump is considering an oil billionaire and a North Dakota lawmaker for top posts as he moves to roll back President Barack Obama’s environmental and energy p...

NEW YORK - A work by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch fetched over $54 million at Sotheby’s auction of impressionist and modern art on Monday. “Girls on the Bridge,” a seminal work from...

The Kardashian clan might be getting serious about taking a step back from social media. Kendall Jenner’s Instagram account vanished over the weekend, but her 68 million followers on the picture...

BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed the importance of relations with the United States in a phone conversation with President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, opening communication with a p...