Category Archives: World

LOS ANGELES - A fast-moving wildfire in Southern California has scorched a historic movie site recently used by the HBO series “Westworld” and forced numerous celebrities to join the thous...

UVALDE, Texas - A driver was sentenced to 55 years in prison Friday for causing a church bus crash in South Texas that killed 13 people . Jack Dillon Young , 21, of Leakey, was sentenced after a three...

BALTIMORE - The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has suspended a concertmaster after allegations of his “inappropriate behaviour” toward another orchestra employee surfaced. The Baltimore Sun ...

LONDON - A minister in the British government stepped down Friday to protest Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan and is backing calls for a second referendum on whether the country should l...

LOS ANGELES - Actor Viggo Mortensen has apologized for using a racial slur during a panel discussion about his new film “Green Book.” Mortensen, who is white, appeared Wednesday at the eve...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena dissolved Parliament and called for fresh elections amid a deepening political crisis. An official notification signed by Sirisena...

ROME - A verdict is expected within hours for Rome’s mayor, on trial in the Italian capital for allegedly lying about a City Hall hire. Testimony wrapped up on Friday in the trial of Virginia Ra...

PARADISE, Calif. - A wildfire that moved so fast that firefighters couldn’t hope to stop it quadrupled in size Friday after destroying several thousand buildings and levelling much of a Northern...

SYDNEY, Australia - A knife-wielding man stabbed three people, one fatally, in Australia’s second-largest city on Friday in an attack police linked to terrorism. The attack during the afternoon ...

NEW YORK - Before hopping on a plane to Paris on Friday, President Trump insulted some more reporters, threatened that others may have their White House credentials pulled like CNN’s Jim Acosta ...