Category Archives: World

PARKMAN, Maine - The converted turkey coop that a co-founder of Burt’s Bees once called home in Maine is going to be saved and displayed at the company’s headquarters in North Carolina. Bu...

FAIRFAX, Va. - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s funeral was attended by thousands and carried on live television, but when the hearse pulled away from the church and headed to his burial s...

NORFOLK, Va. - Hermine spun away from the East Coast on Sunday, removing the threat of heavy rain but maintaining enough power to whip up dangerous waves and rip currents and keep beaches off-limits t...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The 6,148 whiskey shots perched atop glasses of energy drink waited for the push that might send them tumbling into the record books - just another night in Dubai, and an...

WASHINGTON - Support for the Black Lives Matter movement has increased among young white adults, according to a poll that suggests a majority of white, black, Asian and Hispanic young adults now suppo...

EUCLID, Ohio - A man accused of pelting his former neighbour’s Ohio home with eggs more than 100 times over the course of a year is scheduled to be sentenced. Thirty-one-year-old Jason Kozan wil...

DETROIT - General Motors Co. has settled two federal court cases related to its defective ignition switches, but its legal troubles stemming from the switches are far from over. GM settled the cases f...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Twenty-three people have died in a prison fire in Ethiopia over the weekend, a state-affiliated broadcaster reported Monday. The Kilinto prison on the outskirts of the capital,...

HANGZHOU, China - China agreed to co-operate more closely with its trading partners on its politically volatile steel exports as leaders of major economies ended a summit Monday with a forceful endors...

BISMARCK, N.D. - A protest of a four-state, $3.8 billion oil pipeline turned violent after tribal officials say construction crews destroyed American Indian burial and cultural sites on private land i...