Category Archives: World

LONDON - Turkish financial markets took a battering Monday after ratings agency Moody’s downgraded the country’s credit grade to junk status to account for a series of shocks to the econom...

BANGKOK - Thai police are attempting to identify a dismembered body found in a freezer when they raided an apartment and arrested three men - two thought to be American and one British - suspected of ...

TOKYO - Japan’s top government spokesman warned China on Monday against expanding its military activity to the skies over disputed East China Sea islands after eight Chinese warplanes flew near ...

MIAMI - Tropical Storm Roslyn has grown stronger than expected in the Pacific far off Mexico’s coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the storm’s maximum sustained winds Monday aft...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s status as a Washington outsider fuels his fiery populism and also is helping to shield him from the scrutiny House Republicans are devoting to Hillary Clinton, a form...

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - In a combative opening debate, Hillary Clinton emphatically denounced Donald Trump Monday night for keeping his personal tax returns and business dealings secret from voters and pedd...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Dozens of demonstrators protesting the fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old black boy brought a city council meeting to a halt Monday in Columbus as they called for an independent i...

SEATTLE - Five people were killed in a shooting this weekend at a Macy’s store in a mall north of Seattle. Authorities do not plan to make their identities public until Tuesday, but details abou...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Charlotte lifted its midnight curfew, signalling movement toward normalcy after a state of emergency was imposed following the shooting death of a black man by police last week that ...

SYDNEY, Australia - Police say a teenage surfer is in a stable condition after he was bitten by a shark at the same Australian beach where a Japanese surfer was fatally mauled last year. A police stat...