Category Archives: World

MOSCOW - A 35-year-old Russian celebrity TV host who wants to become a presidential candidate opened her first news conference on Tuesday by demanding the release of all political prisoners. Ksenia So...

TAMPA, Fla. - Fears of a serial killer have police in Tampa escorting children to school in one neighbourhood near downtown, and a city bus changed its usual route. Three people have been shot to deat...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia on Tuesday opened a major investment conference aimed at shining a spotlight on the country’s efforts to overhaul its economy and society after being jolted i...

SRINAGAR, India - Hundreds of young men - armed with knives, cricket bats and iron rods - patrol the nighttime streets of India-controlled Kashmir these days, hoping their ad-hoc vigilante groups will...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three tourists visiting San Francisco two years ago testified Tuesday that they saw a man - now charged with murder - on a popular pier moments after hearing a gunshot that killed a wo...

NEW YORK - Sears will no longer sell Whirlpool appliances, ending a business relationship that dates back more than 100 years. In a note sent to its stores last week, Sears said that Whirlpool was mak...

PHOENIX - Paul Weitz, a retired NASA astronaut who commanded the first flight of the space shuttle Challenger and also piloted the Skylab in the early 1970s, has died. He was 85. Weitz died at his ret...

CHICAGO - Mark Wahlberg says he hopes God will forgive him for his turn as a porn star in the 1997 film “Boogie Nights.” Wahlberg told the Chicago Tribune ahead of an event with Chicago Ca...

BANGKOK - Thailand’s army on Tuesday detained an activist who wrote on Facebook that he would wear politically charged red clothing to mark King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s cremation this week. A...

MADRID - Catalonia’s political leaders plan to bring a legal challenge to prevent the Spanish government from removing them from office and taking over running the region to stop its push for in...