Category Archives: World

FRANKFURT - Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche will leave his post in May and be succeeded by Ola Kallenius, who has headed development and research for the automaker’s Mercedes-Benz luxury brand. The c...

BANGKOK - A court in Thailand has given a second life sentence to a drug kingpin from Laos whose social connections to various celebrities were exposed by his arrest. Bangkok’s Criminal Court on...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Worried they would lack big-name candidates at the top of the ticket this November, California Republicans turned to a ballot measure that would eliminate a recent gas tax increas...

KERRVILLE, Texas - A 20-year-old Texas mother whose two toddlers died after they were left for hours inside a hot vehicle has pleaded guilty. The Kerrville Daily Times reports Amanda Kristene Hawkins ...

Bill Cosby was to spend his first night behind bars at SCI Phoenix, a new 3,830-bed state prison in suburban Philadelphia. He was headed there Tuesday night after being held temporarily at a county ja...

CHICAGO - A Chinese citizen living in Chicago was arrested Tuesday for allegedly spying, including by helping with the recruitment of U.S. engineers, defence contractors and scientists for intelligenc...

CAMEROON, Cameroon - Lots of leaders saying lots of things about lots of topics - topics that matter to them, to their regions, to the world. That’s what the speechmaking at the U.N. General Ass...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Reality television star Thomas Ravenel was arrested Thursday after a former nanny said he fondled her at his South Carolina home featured in his TV show “Southern Charm”...

PARIS - With a powerful front row of stars, Saint Laurent headlined the second day of Paris Fashion Week in an eclectic French twist on American styles that featured models walking on water. Tuesday&#...

The judge who sentenced Bill Cosby to three to 10 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004 cited the entertainer’s own words as evidence he had committed a crime. Jud...