Category Archives: World

When Hugh Grant accepted his Golden Globe in 1995 for "Four Weddings and a Funeral," you could say he slayed the room - with the kind of boyishly befuddled, sweetly stammering speech he might have mad...

WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer prices rose 0.3% in January, led by a surge in energy. Though the gain was the biggest monthly increase since July, inflation in the past year remains modest. The rise in co...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Yemen's Houthi rebels on Wednesday targeted an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia causing a civilian plane on the tarmac to catch fire, the kingdom's state television r...

CHICAGO - The Chicago Teachers Union has approved a deal with the nation's third-largest school district to get students back to class during the coronavirus pandemic, union officials announced early ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A malfunctioning automatic throttle may have caused the pilots of a Sriwijaya Air jet to lose control, leading to the Boeing plane's plunge into the Java Sea last month, Indonesia...

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa will give the unapproved Johnson & Johnson vaccine to its front-line health care workers beginning next week as a study to see what protection it provides from COVID-19...

CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's highest court on Wednesday upheld a law that can keep extremists in prison after they have served their sentences. Five of the seven High Court judges dismissed a con...

WASHINGTON - Former President Donald Trump fumed that his attorneys' performance on the opening day of his second impeachment trial was a disaster, as allies and Republican senators questioned the str...

Brian A. Gallagher, who has led United Way Worldwide, the world's largest privately funded non-profit since 2009, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday amid claims that the charity mishandled int...

ALPINE, Texas - A West Texas judge has a word of caution to those attending court hearings via Zoom: Always check for filters before logging on. Judge Roy Ferguson's warning comes after an attorney ac...