Category Archives: World

TREBES, France - A French bishop paid tribute Sunday to a police officer who lost his life after swapping himself with a supermarket employee held hostage by an Islamist extremist, saying his heroic s...

BEIRUT - Hundreds of Syrian rebels and civilians were bused out of a second pocket of the besieged eastern Ghouta suburbs of Damascus on Sunday after rebels agreed to leave several towns and villages ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Palm Sunday urged young people not to be silent and let their voices be heard, even in the face of corrupt or silent elders. The pope’s message comes on the heels ...

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is praising the U.S. government for passing a law that suspends some financial aid to the Palestinians over the stipends paid to families of Pales...

LONDON - Hundreds of previously unseen photographs of The Beatles’ first U.S. concerts have sold for 253,000 pounds ($358,000) at an auction in England. The photographer Mike Mitchell, who was 1...

BARCELONA, Spain - Five months after going on the run from Spanish authorities, Catalonia’s former president was detained in Germany on an international warrant Sunday by highway police after th...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korea’s coast guard said it rescued all 163 people from a ferry that hit a large rock in waters off the country’s southwestern coast on Sunday. At least s...

MELBOURNE, Australia - Believing his Ferrari still lacks the race pace to fully challenge Mercedes in Formula One, Sebastian Vettel will take a little luck when he can get it. On Sunday at the season-...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A British newspaper editor in Dubai was found guilty Sunday of bludgeoning his wife to death with a hammer and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Francis Matthew, the f...

PRATT, W.Va. - Two West Virginia firefighters were killed and three others were injured when a volunteer fire department’s truck flipped while responding to a call about a highway accident that ...