Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - THE ISSUE: More than 60 million retirees, disabled workers, spouses and children rely on monthly Social Security benefits. That’s nearly one in five Americans. The trustees who over...

WASHINGTON - U.S. home prices rose again in July, pulled up by strong gains in Portland, Seattle and Denver. The Standard & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index, released T...

BAGHDAD - Iraq opened a new antiquities museum in the southern city of Basra on Tuesday with pottery, coins and other artifacts dating back more than 2,000 years. Only one hall was opened due to a sho...

BAGHDAD - Separate suicide bombings ripped through busy commercial areas in Shiite-dominated neighbourhoods of the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing at least 17 civilians, officials said. The deadlies...

KATHMANDU, Nepal - An overcrowded bus carrying villagers heading home for the country’s biggest festival slipped off a mountain road in Nepal on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people, officials sa...

BERLIN - Two homemade explosive devices were set off outside a mosque and a conference centre in the eastern German city of Dresden, police said Tuesday. Nobody was hurt. Dresden police said in a stat...

SANTA ANA, Calif. - An Army private and another young man were charged Tuesday with murder in the slayings of a California couple and family friend who were discovered after the couple’s 6-year-...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A Florida woman faces armed robbery charges after police say she robbed an Arby’s restaurant in Gainesville and then hailed a cab to get away. A Gainesville police report say...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey’s state-run news agency says authorities have issued detention warrants for 121 people as part of an ongoing investigation into the July 15 failed coup. Turkey accuses U....

CARTAGENA, Colombia - The contrast couldn’t be more dramatic: As Colombia’s president and the head of its largest guerrilla movement were putting their signatures on a historic peace deal,...