Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Higher gas and housing costs boosted U.S. consumer prices 0.4 per cent in August, the most in seven months. The increase suggests inflation could be picking up, but the figures were likel...

IRBIL, Iraq - Iraq’s Kurds vote this month on whether or not they support independence for their enclave in the country’s north, a step toward their long-held dream of statehood. The outco...

BERKELEY, Calif. - There is a price to pay for free speech, and the University of California, Berkeley forecasts inflation. It cost the famously liberal university an estimated $600,000 to put the cam...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - Fisherman Jake Bunch leans over the side of the fishing boat “Sadie K,” spears his catch, and reels it aboard: an abandoned crab pot, dangling one limp lasagna nood...

LONDON - The British government confirmed Thursday it is asking the country’s competition regulator to investigate Twenty-First Century Fox Inc.’s bid for satellite broadcaster Sky because...

LONDON - A new plastic 10-pound note featuring Jane Austen, one of Britain’s most renowned authors, has gone into circulation. Apart from the Queen, whose portrait is on all U.K. currency, Auste...

COPENHAGEN - A Norwegian archaeologist says a well-preserved, if rusty, iron sword dating to the Viking era has been found in southern Norway. Lars Holger Piloe says the nearly one-meter-long (3-foot)...

NEW YORK - It was a different Sean Spicer who paid a visit to ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Wednesday night. This was a smiling, chill Spicer, in marked contrast to the six hot-tempered ...

LUCKNOW, India - A boat crowded with construction workers capsized in the Yamuna River in northern India early Thursday and at least 19 people have drowned, officials said. A search is underway for mi...

BOSTON - Some fans seated above the Green Monster hung a sign about racism in the fourth inning and were escorted from Fenway Park during Boston’s 7-3 loss to Oakland on Wednesday night. The sig...