Category Archives: World

ROHATYN, Ukraine - Steven Reece pulls a shield over his face, takes a weed whacker in hand, and begins trimming tall grass in an overgrown, tick-infested Jewish cemetery in western Ukraine where tombs...

COPENHAGEN - The last session of Danish submarine inventor Peter Madsen’s appeal against his life sentence for the murder of Swedish reporter Kim Wall was abandoned Friday after a juror collapse...

MOSCOW - When almost all the protesters at recent anti-government rallies across Russia went home, teenagers and young adults were the only ones left on the streets. “In my circle, more and more...

WILMINGTON, N.C. - Blowing ashore with howling 90 mph (155 kph) winds, Hurricane Florence splintered buildings, trapped hundreds of people and swamped entire communities along the Carolina coast Frida...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Friday he endorsed a move by his designated successor, Anwar Ibrahim, to contest a byelection to return as a lawmaker, and reite...

NEW YORK - It’s one thing to look up at the moon in the night sky. It’s another thing to do that when you are the second human ever to walk on it. Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin on Wednesday...

NEW YORK - In a year awash with liberal challengers aiming to retire establishment Democrats, Andrew Cuomo was an obvious target. A consummate insider, Cuomo is the son of a governor who ran his fathe...

WARSAW, Poland - Tomasz Ritter of Poland was announced the winner Thursday of the world’s first Frederic Chopin piano competition performed on instruments from the composer’s era. Japan...

The world’s supply of oil hit a record last month, yet another sign of oil’s dominance over the energy landscape. The International Energy Agency said Thursday that the global oil supply r...

SEATTLE - Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said Thursday that he is giving $2 billion to start a fund that will open preschools in low-income neighbourhoods and give money to nonprofits that helps ho...