Category Archives: World

COPENHAGEN - There won’t be a Nobel Prize in Literature this year but the Swedish Academy that awards the prestigious prize is still in the limelight. Jean-Claude Arnault, a French citizen who i...

CHICAGO - Legendary Chicago blues guitarist Otis Rush, whose passionate, jazz-tinged music influenced artists from Carlos Santana and Eric Clapton to the rock band Led Zeppelin, died Saturday at the a...

MOSCOW - Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry is demanding that Russia allow consular access to an imprisoned Ukrainian filmmaker who has been on a hunger strike since mid-May. Foreign Ministry spokeswoma...

BROOKHAVEN, Miss. - Two police officers were shot and killed following an early Saturday morning confrontation in Mississippi, authorities said. Warren Strain of the Mississippi Department of Public S...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis asked Saturday for daily prayers to protect the Catholic Church from what he says are “attacks by the devil,” in his latest response to the clerical sex abuse a...

PORT DICKSON, Malaysia - Malaysia’s prime minister-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim on Saturday kicked off his campaign for a byelection in coming weeks but faces a multi-cornered fight in his bid to re...

NEW YORK - CBS says it has been subpoenaed by a New York City prosecutor for information related to sexual misconduct allegations against its former chairman, Les Moonves. CBS said in regulatory filin...

NEW ORLEANS - The Trump administration is easing rules imposed on offshore oil and gas drilling six years after the nation’s worst offshore oil spill. The decision won immediate praise from an o...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California told automakers Friday they must still comply with the state’s strict vehicle mileage standards even if President Donald Trump rolls back federal rules. The actio...

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana’s Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a judge’s ruling that IBM owes Indiana $78 million in damages stemming from the company’s failed effort to automate much of...