Category Archives: World

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A third grader was killed and at least 45 people were injured when a charter bus carrying youth football players from Tennessee rolled off an interstate and overturned before sunri...

KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine’s president on Monday announced a partial call-up of reservists for training amid tensions with Russia, saying the country needs to beef up its defences to counter the th...

KATOWICE, Poland - As leaders attending the U.N.’s annual climate summit heard fresh warnings about the dire consequences of leaving global warming unchecked, a new issue emerged Monday as a pre...

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Three astronauts who were launched into space aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft Monday entered the International Space Station nearly eight hours later, a relief to relatives an...

HOUSTON - Sent off with a 21-gun salute, George H.W. Bush left his beloved Texas for the final time Monday, headed to Washington as the nation paid tribute to the 41st president for a lifetime of publ...

NEW YORK - Who says the British are reserved? A couple who lost an engagement ring down a Times Square utility grate, returning home thinking it was gone forever, are effusive in their praise for the ...

SANDWICH, Ill. - An 11-year-old northern Illinois boy couldn’t resist testing the theory that when you place your tongue on a frozen metal pole, it’ll stick. Spencer Cline found out the ha...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Police say a woman in Louisiana has been accidentally shot in the back by her 2-year-old child. The Shreveport Times reports that the woman was seriously wounded in the shooting earl...

FOREST LAKE, Minn. - A Minnesota church has ended its 70-year tradition of serving a dinner of lutefisk, a Nordic dish of dried cod soaked in lye, and the pastor has penned a eulogy for the dinnerR...

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Tracy K. Smith, the nation’s poet laureate, is going to be honoured in New Hampshire. She’ll be receiving the Hall-Kenyon Prize in American Poetry on Dec. 12 at the Curr...