Category Archives: World

HOUTOUWAN, China - Blanketed with greenery, the ghost town is perched atop cliffs looking west into sea mists obscuring the horizon. Abandoned homes ravaged by weather and creeping vines stand silent ...

LOS ANGELES - Reese Witherspoon confirms there will be a “Legally Blonde 3.” The actress on Thursday posted a video on Instagram of her floating in a pool wearing a pink bikini. The captio...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The youngest sister of Queen Maxima of Holland has been found dead in her apartment in Argentina’s capital. The death of 33-year-old Ines Zorreguieta, presumably of sui...

WASHINGTON - He hectored Mexico’s leader over border wall funding. Lobbed statistics at the Canadian leader without checking his facts. Cajoled the British prime minister to crack down on protes...

WASHINGTON - Before President Donald Trump sits down with a third-generation North Korean autocrat, he will face what may well turn out to be a tougher crowd - some of America’s oldest allies. W...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Rhode Islanders feel slighted that Bostonians get all the glory for helping spark the American Revolution with the Boston Tea Party. After all, more than a year before any tea was t...

CANBERRA, Australia - Australia’s prime minister said on Thursday he would welcome Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testifying to an Australian parliamentary committee on the...

SAN MIGUEL LOS LOTES, Guatemala - Rescuers suspended search and recovery efforts Thursday at villages devastated by the eruption of Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire, leaving people with missing loved...

COPENHAGEN - An Uzbek man who drove a stolen truck into a crowd in Stockholm, killing five people and wounding 14 others, was convicted Thursday of terror-related murder and given a life sentence. Rak...

HOUSTON - A Boy Scout who packed a toy grenade in his carry-on bag caused the shutdown of a security checkpoint at Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport Thursday morning, just a day after the inter...