Category Archives: World

ROME - Pope Francis urged governments on Monday to use the coronavirus crisis as a revolutionary opportunity to create a world that is more economically and environmentally just - and where basic heal...

BERLIN - Transport disruption in Germany and the Netherlands persisted into a second day on Monday as heavy snowfall and icy temperatures gripped parts of central and northern Europe. Some Dutch child...

STOCKHOLM - Two Swedish nationals were acquitted Monday of desecrating a sunken ferry by sending down a robot in the Baltic Sea to film the wreck of one of Europe's deadliest maritime disasters. In it...

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pleaded not guilty on Monday as his trial on corruption charges resumed in a Jerusalem courtroom just weeks before national elections in which he ...

SALT LAKE CITY - Four backcountry skiers in their 20s died when one of the deadliest avalanches in Utah history hit a popular canyon, police said Sunday. Four other people also were buried in the Satu...

TAMPA, Fla. - Tom Brady made his seventh Super Bowl title look familiar - despite moving south to a new team and conference during a pandemic. Brady threw two touchdown passes to old friend Rob Gronko...

KILLINGWORTH, Conn. - A pelican that got blown off course and was rescued in chilly Connecticut has been flown to Florida, where he is recovering from pneumonia and frostbite. The brown pelican, nickn...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Sunday that a "tentative agreement" has been reached with the teachers union over COVID-19 safety protocols, potentially averting a strike in the nation's third-large...

WASHINGTON - President Ronald Reagan's longtime secretary of state, George P. Shultz, who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in th...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's supreme leader on Sunday urged the United States to lift all sanctions if it wants Iran to live up to commitments under its nuclear deal with world powers, state TV reported, but...