Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - Journalist Richard Pyle, whose long and accomplished Associated Press career spanned the globe and a half-century of crisis, war, catastrophe and indelible moments in news reporting, died a...

WASHINGTON - Backing employers over employees. Backing the state of Ohio over groups involved in voter registration. Backing a narrow reading of a sexual discrimination law over a broad one. Those are...

NEW YORK - Beyonce has released a surprise single on which she sings in Spanish, English and French to raise relief money for those affected by hurricanes in the Caribbean and earthquakes in Mexico. B...

MEXICO CITY - A tree branch saved a maintenance mechanic from the collapsing building where a dozen co-workers died when last week’s earthquake rocked central Mexico. A slap across the face star...

NEW YORK - Oscar-nominated actor Stanley Tucci is leading an audio production inspired in part by Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist.” The audio producer and seller Audible Inc. told The ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s health secretary resigned Friday, after his costly travel triggered investigations that overshadowed the administration’s agenda and angered his boss....

CAIRO - The leader of the Islamic State group urged followers to burn their enemies everywhere and target “media centres of the infidels,” according to an audio recording released Thursday...

JOHANNESBURG - Jazz musician Roy Ayers on Friday offered some rhythmic advice for youths in Johannesburg’s Soweto area: Get serious, be inspired, rap on, keep on and “eventually you’...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Students at Harvard University staged a protest as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos delivered an address on school choice. Some held up fists. One held up a sign reading, “Whit...

MEXICO CITY - Civil defence officials in northeast Mexico say a light rain was accompanied by small fish that fell from the sky. Tamaulipas civil defence says in a brief statement that rain Tuesday in...