Category Archives: World

LONDON - The British Film Institute stripped disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein of its highest honour Thursday, saying his alleged “appalling conduct” stands in opposition to the organiza...

LONDON - Energy firm BP says its chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg, who presided over the company during the Deepwater Horizon spill, has decided to retire. Svanberg became chairman only months before th...

BEIRUT - The Middle East may have turned a page with the defeat of the Islamic State group in its self-declared capital of Raqqa, but the future is looking even more tangled, and potentially as violen...

HOUSTON - An appeals court on Thursday temporarily stayed a judge’s ruling that would have allowed a pregnant 17-year-old being held in a Texas facility for unaccompanied immigrant children to o...

BAMAKO, Mali - The Islamic militants came on motorcycles toting rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine-guns, killing four American service members after shattering the windows of the unarmored U....

WASILLA, Alaska - It was an odd day for one Alaska animal control officer who took a call about an alligator outgrowing its bathtub. KTUU-TV reports that a Wasilla resident called 911 this week after ...

LUCKNOW, India - India’s famed monument of love, the white marble Taj Mahal, is finding itself at the heart of a political storm, with some members of the country’s ruling Hindu right-wing...

YANGON, Myanmar - A fire gutted a luxury teakwood hotel popular with foreigners in Myanmar’s biggest city of Yangon before dawn Thursday, causing one death. Firefighters who carried a body out o...

BEIJING - China’s ruling Communist Party is expanding its role in business even as it promises freer markets and support for entrepreneurs on the eve of President Xi Jinping’s second five-...

BEIJING - The TV cameras are rolling, the bright lights are on and the reporters are readying their notebooks. It’s the second day of the Chinese Communist Party’s twice-a-decade congress ...