Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - Amazon names New York City and Arlington, Virginia as the two sites for its second headquarters. More info coming. The Associated Press

BUCHAREST, Romania - A Romanian man was surprised to find 95,000 euros ($107,000) stashed inside a secondhand cupboard he’d bought - and promptly returned the money. Adela Stanici told The Assoc...

CAIRO - An Egyptian court sentenced Mohamed Aboutrika, one of the country’s greatest all-time soccer players, to a year in prison for tax evasion while also giving him the option to pay a fine o...

PHOENIX - Democrat Kyrsten Sinema won Arizona’s open U.S. Senate seat Monday in a race that was among the most closely watched in the nation, beating Republican Rep. Martha McSally in the battle...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Minnesota baby girl was born on Veterans Day - the 11th day of the 11th month - at 11:11 p.m. Erin and Mike Potts of Hugo, Minnesota, welcomed their first child on Sunday, the 100t...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - OPEC and allied oil-producing countries will likely need to cut crude supplies, perhaps by as much as 1 million barrels of oil a day, to rebalance the market after U....

LOS ANGELES - Stan Lee, the creative dynamo who revolutionized the comic book and helped make billions for Hollywood by introducing human frailties in Marvel superheroes such as Spider-Man, the Fantas...

WASHINGTON - Both nature and humans share blame for California’s devastating wildfires, but forest management did not play a major role, despite President Donald Trump’s claims, fire scien...

NEW YORK - The communities said to be favoured to become homes to a pair of big, new East Coast bases for Amazon are both riverfront stretches of major metropolitan areas with ample transportation and...

BALTIMORE - At the Vatican’s insistence, U.S. Catholic bishops abruptly postponed plans Monday to vote on proposed new steps to address the clergy sex abuse crisis roiling the church. Cardinal D...