Category Archives: World

KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A 70-year-old man accused of robbing a bank in Kansas told investigators he would rather be imprisoned than live with his wife. Court documents say Lawrence John Ripple gave a note...

PARIS - A criminal terrorist investigation has been opened in Paris following the discovery of a car parked near Notre Dame Cathedral with seven gas canisters and pages written in Arabic inside, prose...

MADRID - Spain’s film academy has selected Pedro Almodovar’s film “Julieta” as its entry for best foreign language film at next year’s Oscars. It is the sixth time the di...

BEIRUT - An airstrike near the site of a suspected gas attack in Syria killed at least 10 civilians Wednesday, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov agreed t...

PHILADELPHIA - Republican Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to boost defence spending and deploy more active troops, fighter planes, Navy ships and submarines as he works to convince skeptics in both parti...

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday defended her government’s handling of the flood of migrants that crossed into Germany last year, but conceded that more still needs to be done and ...

Some 28 million children around the globe have been driven from their homes by violent conflict, with nearly as many abandoning their homes in search of a better life, according to a UNICEF report rel...

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico - Newton was rapidly weakening as a tropical storm on Wednesday after slamming the resorts of Mexico’s southern Baja as a hurricane and making landfall on the country̵...

MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities say gunmen shot down a police helicopter in western Mexico, killing the pilot and three officers. The governor of the western state of Michoacan wrote on his Twiiter ...

HONOLULU - Federal authorities took most humpback whales off the endangered species list Tuesday, saying their numbers have recovered through international efforts to protect the giant mammals. Known ...