Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - In one of the biggest crackdowns on the corrupting role of money in college basketball, 10 men - including a top Adidas executive and four assistant coaches - were charged Tuesday with usin...

NEW YORK - Jennifer Lopez has pledged $1 million toward hurricane relief efforts in her family’s native Puerto Rico. Lopez announced during a news conference with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on S...

BEIJING - The encrypted messaging service WhatsApp suffered intermittent disruptions in China on Tuesday as communist authorities tightened censorship ahead of a major ruling party meeting. Attempts t...

MEXICO CITY - On paper at least, the Mexico City school appeared to be structurally sound and built to withstand a major earthquake. But it collapsed, killing 26 people, most of them children. And now...

MEXICO CITY - When a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck central Mexico, toppling buildings and leaving hundreds of people trapped, Mexicans quickly mobilized a mammoth rescue operation involving police, ...

WASHINGTON - The trial of the suspected mastermind of the 2012 Benghazi, Libya, attacks will be one of the biggest terrorism cases yet for a Justice Department under a leader who has said it shouldn&#...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The evidence against an Ohio man accused of killing three down-and-out men lured by fake Craigslist job offers wasn’t strong enough to convict him, according to attorneys fighti...

PHILADELPHIA - Nearly 150 years after he was killed on the streets of his adopted hometown, Octavius Valentine Catto was honoured by a crowd of hundreds gathered in Philadelphia on Tuesday for the unv...

NEW YORK - Equifax CEO Richard Smith retired Tuesday, as the credit reporting agency tries to recover from a damaging data breach that exposed highly sensitive information about millions of consumers ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. home prices climbed steadily in July even as sales have slowed, evidence that a limited supply of available houses is distorting the real estate market. The Standard & Poor’...