Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - U.S. services companies grew last month at the slowest pace in more than six years, a private survey finds. The Institute for Supply Management said Tuesday that its services index fell t...

NEW YORK - Former Fox News Channel anchor Gretchen Carlson has settled her sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the case that led to the downfall of Fox’s chief executive with stunning...

VIENTIANE, Laos - A top aide of President Barack Obama said Tuesday he will meet with the wife of a missing Laotian activist, whose case has been repeatedly highlighted by human rights groups as an ex...

NEW YORK - Volkswagen Truck & Bus, an arm of the German automaker Volkswagen, is buying a minority stake in Navistar for $256 million. The two companies also said Tuesday that they will enter a pr...

BERLIN - An 80-year-old woman took an unintended short cut as she tried to drive her car out of a multistory car park in western Germany, breaking though the building’s wall and landing on a con...

LOS ANGELES - Chevy Chase has checked into a rehab facility in Minnesota for treatment for an alcohol problem. Chase’s publicist Heidi Schaeffer said Monday that Chase is at Hazelden Addiction T...

WASHINGTON - What if the Republican Party turns its back on its presidential nominee? The possibility that the Republican National Committee might abandon Donald Trump is remote. It’s been discu...

ATLANTA - If Donald Trump makes it to the White House, white Americans will have handed him the keys. Much depends on whether Trump is right that his campaign is a “movement.” And much res...

LOS ANGELES - A shooter who gunned down airport screening officers three years ago at Los Angeles International Airport in a terrifying attack that sent frantic passengers running for their lives is s...

LONDON - British Airways travellers are suffering delays globally due to a computer glitch in the check-in systems, the latest in a string of technical failures to hit major international airlines. Tr...