Category Archives: World

SRINAGAR, India - A security clampdown and a strike sponsored by separatists fighting against Indian rule shut down most of Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday, a day after deadly protests and fierc...

ISLAMABAD - Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai left Pakistan on Monday, ending a surprise visit to the country, her first since being shot in 2012 by Taliban militants who tried to kill her for...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Prosecutors and the defence began the difficult task of picking a jury for Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial Monday amid a powerful #MeToo movement that has pierced the consc...

NEW YORK - Harper Lee, the most media shy of writers, was not shy about expressing herself in private. Six letters donated to Emory University and being made public Monday show the author lamenting th...

SARASOTA, Fla. - Florida homeowners beware: one big gator has been found splashing in a backyard swimming pool and it took a trapper to drag it away. The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office posted ...

CLEVELAND - The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland will receive $4.1 million over five years to help expand its youth education programs and community activities. The Rock Hall announced this w...

GUATEMALA CITY - Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who seized power in a 1982 coup and presided over one of the bloodiest periods of Guatemala’s civil war in which soldiers waged a scorched-ear...

LOS ANGELES - Steven Spielberg’s action-adventure “Ready Player One” has topped the domestic box office over the holiday weekend. Studio estimates on Sunday say the Virtual Reality-f...

BOSTON - A husband and wife injured in the Boston Marathon bombing are unveiling a new children’s book they authored. Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes will be at the Boston Public Library on Th...

BERLIN - China’s defunct Tiangong 1 space station hurtled toward Earth on Sunday and was expected to re-enter the atmosphere within hours. Most of the craft should burn up on re-entry, so scient...