Category Archives: World

KAMPALA, Uganda - Streets. Schools. A bridge in Burkina Faso. The name of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. can be found across Africa, a measure of the global influence of the American civil rights lea...

TEL ARBOUSH, Syria - The young men and women in traditional costumes of red, blue and white, the colours of the Assyrian flag, jumped into the middle of the park. With feathers or gold tiaras on their...

OKLAHOMA CITY - A teacher rebellion in red states from West Virginia to Arizona has put Republicans on the defensive, forcing them to walk a fine line in the months before midterm elections between pl...

PHILLIPS STATION, Calif. - A stormy close to California’s rainy season has slowed the state’s plunge back into drought, bringing the vital Sierra Nevada snowpack to just over half of avera...

LOS ANGELES - Kathy Griffin says she hopes to make her U.S. comeback by laughing about the disturbing photograph that got her in hot water with the feds and almost killed her career. But she also has ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Cellphones are still absent from most U.S. schools but new data shows them steadily gaining acceptance as administrators bow to parents’ wishes to keep tabs on their kids and tea...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian authorities on Tuesday intercepted a boat carrying 56 people believed to be Muslim Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar, and brought the vessel and its passengers...

NEW YORK - The Apollo Theater audience cheered and cheered for Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the readers of “Between the World and Me.” A capacity crowd at the famed New York City venue was on han...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - As jury selection picked up speed, the judge in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial gave his legal defence a huge lift Tuesday with two rulings that could bolster the 80-year-o...

NEW YORK - Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan Tatum say they have decided to “lovingly separate as a couple” after nearly nine years of marriage. The couple broke the news in a joint Twitter p...