Category Archives: World

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin poked fun at the official seal of the United States while hosting U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Tuesday, saying he wondered if...

MEXICO CITY - A potential catastrophic Hurricane Willa swept toward Mexico’s Pacific coast with winds of 145 mph (230 kph) Monday night, threatening a stretch of high-rise resort hotels, surfing...

ISTANBUL - Just hours after writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, a man strolled out of the diplomatic post apparently wearing the columnist’s clothes as part of ...

WASHINGTON - After a 35-year acting career and with two iconic television characters to her name - Elaine Benes of “Seinfeld” and foul-mouthed Vice-President Selina Meyer - Julia Louis-Dre...

SYDNEY, Australia - Geoffrey Rush’s lawyer told a court on Monday the Australian actor was “a national living treasure” who had no scandal attached to his name before a Sydney newspa...

BOSTON - A renowned Boston planetarium is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a new film that’s out of this world. The Museum of Science’s Charles Hayden Planetarium is debuting “D...

LOS ANGELES - Forty years later, Michael Myers is still drawing huge audiences to the movie theatres for a good scare. “Halloween” has opened in first place with an estimated $77.5 million...

CLEMSON, S.C. - The floor of a condominium clubhouse near Clemson University collapsed during a large private party early Sunday, hurtling dozens of people into the basement, authorities said. About 3...

AL-UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar - An airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group targeted a mosque in Syria last week because it was determined to be an insurgent command-and-control...

DONGSHAN TOWNSHIP, Taiwan - Taiwan’s president pressed for a quick, transparent probe into the cause of the island’s worst train crash in nearly three decades as the search of the derailed...