Category Archives: World

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. - A Vermont restaurant owner is offering a $100 gift certificate to the person who returns a life-size cardboard cutout of himself that was stolen from an airport. Bob Conlon sai...

WASHINGTON - Some say it’s a fight between West and South. Or who might win an endorsement from President Donald Trump. Or a test of who can woo conservatives. But one thing was clear Thursday: ...

GAZA, Palestinian Territory - Raed Jadallah belonged to an exclusive club - a small band of surfers who escaped the claustrophobia of blockaded Gaza by riding the waves of the Mediterranean. Now he...

ATLANTA - No one was seriously hurt in a fight involving four women in a Chik-fil-A drive-thru, but another customer who recorded the fracas says it really got crazy when one of them pointed a handgun...

ATLANTA - Expressing pride in his own record of peace, former President Jimmy Carter warned that President Donald Trump should steer clear of any military action involving Syria or other world hot spo...

JOHANNESBURG - A new annual report on the death penalty calls sub-Saharan Africa a “beacon of hope” amid a decline in executions worldwide. Twenty countries across sub-Saharan Africa have ...

BEIJING - China’s government on Thursday denied President Xi Jinping’s promise of market-opening measures this week was aimed at settling a tariff dispute with Washington and said negotiat...

LONDON - Longtime British rock icon Cliff Richard’s case against the BBC’s coverage of a police raid at his home has begun in a London court. Richard is suing the broadcaster for its cover...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia has kicked off its first-ever fashion week with designs by Middle Eastern, Brazilian, U.S. and Russian designers, as well as shows by internationally renowned label...

PARIS - The director of the Cannes Film Festival called the Harvey Weinstein “an earthquake” - but he said that the quality of films, not gender quotas, remains the top factor in selecting...