Category Archives: World

LONDON - Britain's 99-year-old Prince Philip has spent a second night in a London hospital after being admitted earlier this week as a precaution due to feeling unwell. Buckingham Palace said Wednesda...

PIERRE, S.D. - South Dakota's Republican attorney general has been charged with misdemeanour careless driving after he struck and killed a man with his car, authorities said Thursday. Jason Ravnsborg ...

NEW YORK - They already knew she looked good in a coat. So the designers at Proenza Schouler decided to dress Ella Emhoff - art student, knitwear designer, fledgling model and stepdaughter of Vice-Pre...

PARIS - European plane maker Airbus lost 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) last year amid an unprecedented global slump in air travel because of the pandemic, but expects to deliver hundreds of planes ...

FRANKFURT - Car and truck maker Daimler increased its profits by 48% to 4.0 billion euros ($4.8 billion euros) in 2020 thanks to extensive cost-cutting and a sales recovery in the second half for its ...

BOSTON - The Boston Symphony Orchestra on Thursday announced Gail Samuel as its next president and chief executive. Samuel, currently the president of the Hollywood Bowl and chief operating officer of...

WASHINGTON - The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid rose last week to 861,000, evidence that layoffs remain painfully high despite a steady drop in the number of confirmed viral infecti...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois state Rep. Michael Madigan, a Chicago Democrat who virtually set Illinois' political agenda as House speaker before he was ousted last month, announced Thursday that he is...

DALLAS - Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has travelled to Mexico for a family vacation as his home state struggles with a weather crisis that has left much of Texas without power. The high-profile Republican lawm...

AUSTIN, Texas - Power outages in Texas dropped below a half-million on Thursday morning for the first time in four days, but many people remained without electricity or safe drinking water after winte...