Category Archives: World

MOSCOW - Six decades after Sputnik, a refined version of the rocket that put the first artificial satellite in orbit remains the mainstay of Russia’s space program - a stunning tribute to the co...

AMMAN, Jordan - Zakariya al-Jawawdeh often visits the grave of his 16-year-old son Mohammed, watering plants and reciting a prayer. His trips to the cemetery, just a few steps from his home in Jordan&...

HONOLULU - A Turkish man pleaded guilty Tuesday to interfering with a flight crew and blamed his inflight behaviour that prompted fighter jets to escort the plane to its Honolulu destination on halluc...

SHAH ALAM, Malaysia - A Malaysian judge and court officials wore face masks and surgical gloves in court Wednesday as samples were admitted as evidence of where VX nerve agent was found on the body an...

HAVANA - A U.S. State Department travel warning for Cuba following mysterious attacks that harmed nearly two dozen American diplomats has come like a bucket of cold water for the aspirations of thousa...

WASHINGTON - Legislation that could help usher in a new era of self-driving cars advanced in Congress on Wednesday after the bill’s sponsors agreed to compromises to address some concerns of saf...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Voters in some parts of Alaska rejected efforts to ban commercial marijuana cultivation and retail sales, three years after the nation’s largest state passed a voter initiati...

MADRID - Catalonia’s regional government mulled Wednesday when to declare the region’s independence from Spain, with some lawmakers saying it would happen Monday, and Spanish stocks sunk a...

NEW YORK - Chris Cyr doesn’t like much about the big and tall clothes he finds in stores: They’re “not very adventurous,” he says, and the fit can be too baggy. And then there&...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Trump administration announced Wednesday it will not list the Pacific walrus as a threatened species based on diminished Arctic Ocean sea ice, concluding that the marine mammal...