Category Archives: World

GENEVA - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump would be “dangerous from an international point of view” if elected, the U.N. human rights chief said Wednesday, defiantly doub...

TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 340,000 gas-electric hybrid Prius cars around the world 212,000 of them in Japan and 94,000 in North America, for a defect in their parking brakes. Japanese aut...

PARIS - Lawyers for the only surviving suspect in last November’s attack in Paris say they will no longer defend him because he refuses to speak. Frank Berton and Sven Mary said they’ve de...

For a storm that inflicted less damage than many had feared, Hurricane Matthew nevertheless impaired or destroyed more than 1 million structures, forced businesses from Florida to North Carolina to cl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Donning fresh post-season victory gear, the Chicago Cubs gathered on the mound and posed for a group photo. They jumped up and down, saluted the fans cheering “Cub-bies!” b...

NEW YORK - Amazon is launching a paid streaming music service, the latest entry in an increasingly crowded field. Amazon Music Unlimited is being positioned to compete against existing services such a...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A remote village on Alaska’s northwest coast has begun a reverse tourism campaign. Residents want visitors to stay away. Pacific walrus by the thousands in recent years have ...

LUMBERTON, N.C. - A day after fleeing from the swollen Lumber River, the residents of this down-but-not-quite-out former mill town waded into the swirling, tea-colored floodwaters Wednesday and filled...

NEWARK, N.J. - Two airplanes have clipped wings while on the ground at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says no one was hurt in th...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - A gunman used an assault rifle to kill two police officers who were responding to a domestic disturbance call at the California home of the suspect’s family, authorities s...