Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - Viacom says interim CEO Tom Dooley will leave Nov. 15 and the company is cutting its dividend in half in the first major moves from the company since longtime CEO Philippe Dauman left in Au...

Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi rejected the city’s bid for the 2024 Olympics on Wednesday, effectively dooming the capital’s candidacy for the second time in four years. If approved by RomeR...

NEW YORK - Spotify is getting together with Tinder to allow users of the dating app to find musical matches. The streaming music service says Tinder users can now share a personal anthem on their prof...

MINNEAPOLIS - The day after a young Somali-American man stabbed 10 people at a central Minnesota mall, pickup trucks were spotted driving through predominantly Somali neighbourhoods, honking and wavin...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Airbus on Wednesday became the first airplane manufacturer to receive U.S. government permission to sell aircraft to Iran following last year’s nuclear accord, gett...

CAIRO - A boat carrying African migrants headed to Europe capsized off the Mediterranean coast near the Egyptian city of Alexandria on Wednesday, killing at least 42 people, Egyptian authorities said....

BEIRUT - An airstrike in northern Syria killed four medics responding to an earlier bombing raid, a relief group said Wednesday, as the U.N. announced it would resume aid deliveries suspended after an...

TULSA, Okla. - An unarmed black man shot dead in the middle of a street by a white Oklahoma police officer had run-ins with the law dating back to his teenage years and recently served four years in p...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Prosecutors have said Albuquerque police overreacted in 2014 when they responded to a complaint about a homeless man camping in the foothills bordering the city. They blamed what t...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Torrential rains triggered floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Java, killing at least 20 villagers and leaving 14 others missing, an official said Wednesday. The wor...