Category Archives: World

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. - A new monument in Connecticut honours service animals with a statue of one of the nation’s most famous war dogs. The sculpture, “Stubby Salutes,” was unveiled Sat...

KETCHIKAN, Alaska - A 71-year-old woman has completed her mission of performing a headstand in all 50 states. The Ketchikan Daily News reports retiree Anne Bruinooge checked the last state off her lis...

LONDON - Britain’s Hilary Mantel, Canada’s Michael Ondaatje and American author George Saunders are among five contenders for the title of greatest-ever winner of the prestigious Man Booke...

WASHINGTON - Joshua Holt, who travelled to Venezuela from Utah in 2016 to marry a Spanish-speaking Mormon woman but soon found himself jailed and later branded the CIA’s top spy in Latin America...

KAMPALA, Uganda - A police spokesman says 22 people are dead after a speeding passenger bus struck a tractor and then a beer truck on its way to Uganda’s capital. Emilian Kayima says in a statem...

MULTAN, Pakistan - Police in Pakistan say they have killed six “terrorists” behind a bomb attack in the eastern city of Lahore last year. Police spokesman Salim Khan says counterterrorism ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Subtropical Storm Alberto, gained strength as it approached the northern Gulf Coast, emptying out beaches in Florida ahea...

SRINAGAR, India - At least four suspected militants were killed in a gunbattle with government troops Saturday after crossing into the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir from the Pakistani side of the ...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met Saturday for the second time in a month, exchanging a huge bear hug and broad smiles in a surpris...

SALALAH, Oman - A cyclone more powerful than any previously recorded in southern Oman slammed into the Gulf country and neighbouring Yemen on Saturday, deluging a major city with nearly three years...