Category Archives: World

JOHANNESBURG - Two white South Africans have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison for forcing a black man into a coffin and threatening to set him on fire. A judge in Mpumalanga province ann...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - More than 100 people in the U.S. have been charged with trying to help the Islamic State, or trying to join it, but Mohamad Khweis stood out because he succeeded. Khweis, 27, the onl...

HONOLULU - Trapped on a storm-battered boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for months, Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava were just about out of food and beginning to believe they were completely out...

YANGON, Myanmar - A Myanmar court sentenced two ethnic Kachin Baptist pastors to prison terms on Friday on charges of supporting rebels and defaming the military, their lawyers said. The two were deta...

PHOENIX - A new mouth spray that delivered the powerful painkiller fentanyl to end-stage cancer patients wasn’t selling as well as anticipated. So drug company executives moved quickly to make i...

HAVANA - Cuba on Thursday presented its most detailed defence to date against U.S. accusations that American diplomats in Havana were subjected to mysterious sonic attacks that left them with a variet...

BERLIN - Germany’s bankrupt Air Berlin is operating its last flights, leaving employees facing an uncertain future and - at least for a while - a likely gap in the country’s aviation sched...

FORT WORTH, Texas - The Texas district attorney prosecuting bikers allegedly involved in a 2015 shootout with police in Waco asked for his office to be recused from the case of a biker scheduled to st...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration gave Congress on Thursday a list of Russian officials who may soon become off-limits to anyone who wants to avoid U.S. sanctions, as criticism mounted over the ad...

SAN DIEGO - The U.S. government announced Thursday that prototypes for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico have been completed and will be subjected to punishment to test t...