Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - Lulu Wang, Lorene Scafaria, Melina Matsoukas and Greta Gerwig led Hollywood to a record year for women in the director's chair. In 2019, women directed more of the most popular movies than ...

NEW YORK - Couples kissed. Others cheered and waved balloons as fireworks burst into the night sky and confetti fell to welcome the start of 2020 in New York City's Times Square. In one of the globe's...

WASHINGTON - U.S. health officials will ban most flavoured e-cigarettes popular with underage teenagers, but with major exceptions that benefit vaping manufacturers, retailers and adults who use the n...

DALLAS - A Texas judge on Thursday sided with a hospital that plans to remove an 11-month-old girl from life support after her mother disagreed with the decision by doctors who say the infant is in pa...

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. - A large red navigation buoy that bobbed around the Atlantic Ocean for two years was removed Thursday from a Florida beach where it had become something of a tourist attraction...

PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a compromise between his government and unions over plans to change the pension system that have led to sustained strikes - including from Paris...

AUSTIN, Texas - Former Obama housing secretary Julin Castro is ending his run for president. His announcement Thursday comes as Castro failed to garner enough support or donations to make the recent D...

LOS ANGELES - The Golden Globes, known as the "party of the year," is going with a meatless menu for its 77th annual awards show. Guests will be served a 100% plant-based meal just ahead of showtime S...

CAIRO - In a story December 31, 2019, about an Eritrean migrant making sketches about detention centres in Libya, The Associated Press erroneously reported that he escaped forced military conscription...

TOKYO - Japanese prosecutors raided the Tokyo home of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn after he skipped bail before a trial on financial misconduct charges and left for Lebanon. Tokyo prosecutors a...