Category Archives: World

HAMPTON, Va. - The U.S. Senate may award a Congressional Gold Medal to the women portrayed in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures.” The Daily Press reported Wednesday that the award would go to ...

NEW YORK - Police say actress Sean Young is wanted for questioning after she was caught on surveillance video stealing laptops and video production software from a store in New York City. Police say e...

BEIRUT - It was supposed to be a goodwill gesture from an energy company in Turkey. This summer, the Karadeniz Energy Group lent Lebanon a floating power station to generate electricity at below-marke...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - The battle lines for Indonesia’s 2019 presidential election were drawn Friday as the incumbent Joko “Jokowi” Widodo formally registered as a candidate after choo...

BEIJING - Thousands of Muslims gathered at a mosque in northwestern China on Friday to protest its planned demolition in a rare, public pushback to the government’s efforts to rewrite how religi...

SEATTLE - A team of whale experts has injected an ailing killer whale with antibiotics in a rare emergency effort to save her. NOAA Fisheries says the international team reached 3 1/2-year-old orca kn...

LONDON - Almost 15 years after it was cancelled, “Friends” is still there for British viewers. The catchphrase-generating New York sitcom is the most popular show on U.K. streaming service...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - An exhibit centred on the career of Lisa Marie Presley, and a launch party marking the release of an album of gospel songs by her late father Elvis Presley, are among the highlights o...

ANKARA, Turkey - A financial shockwave ripped through Turkey on Friday, when its currency nosedived on concerns about its economic policies and a dispute with the U.S., which President Donald Trump st...

LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. - Firefighters fought to spare homes Friday from a growing Southern California forest fire, a day after flames came perilously close to neighbourhoods and destroyed one house. Go...