Category Archives: World

SINGAPORE - Shares rose in Europe and Asia on Friday as investors looked ahead to next week’s trade talks between the U.S. and China. China’s Commerce Ministry said the talks will be held ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. businesses added a robust 271,000 jobs in December, according to a private survey. Payroll processor ADP said Thursday that last month’s job gains marked a sharp upturn from No...

BEIJING - Apple’s $1,000 iPhone is a tough sell to consumers in China unnerved by an economic slump and the trade war with the U.S. CEO Tim Cook said in a letter to shareholders Wednesday that d...

PHILADELPHIA - Over the past four months, Roman Catholic dioceses across the U.S. have released the names of more than 1,000 priests and others accused of sexually abusing children in an unprecedented...

WASHINGTON - On their first day in the majority, House Democrats on Thursday night passed a plan to re-open the government without funding President Donald Trump’s promised border wall. The larg...

WASHINGTON - Nancy Pelosi knew this moment would come, even if others had their doubts - or worked to stop her. Pelosi was elected Thursday as House speaker, the only woman who has held the office and...

CAIRO - Street protests against Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir show no sign of abating. A growing number of his former allies are clamouring for his departure. None of his friends in the regio...

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, Thailand - Thai authorities suspended ferry services and evacuated locals and tourists ahead of a tropical storm expected to pound the Southeast Asian nation’s famed souther...

LAUREL, Md. - A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman...

CANBERRA, Australia - Californian solo sailor Abby Sunderland said on Thursday her “heart skipped a beat” with news that the yacht she abandoned in the remote Indian Ocean in 2010 during a...