Category Archives: World

LONDON - Call him Sir Ringo now, or Sir Richard to be more precise. Either way, it’s a fitting honour for the former Beatles drummer, who has waited decades for the recognition. The 77-year-old ...

LONDON - Renee Zellweger has transformed her looks and is working on her singing skills as she starts a new film about Judy Garland. Principal photography for “Judy” is underway in London,...

JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi’s governor will appoint the state’s agriculture commissioner to fill the Senate vacancy that will soon be created when veteran Sen. Thad Cochran retires, three...

WASHINGTON - Government efforts to protect state and local elections from Russian cyberattacks in 2016 didn’t go far enough, leaders of the Senate intelligence committee said Tuesday as the pane...

MOSCOW - Nearly two dozen Russian diplomats expelled by Britain over the poisoning of an ex-spy arrived home Tuesday, while a scientist involved in the creation of the nerve agent said it could be man...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Generators are still humming. Candles are still flickering. Homes are still being repaired. Puerto Rico was hit by Hurricane Maria exactly six months ago, and the U.S. territor...

CAIRO - The sole candidate running against Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has had two showcase campaign rallies in downtown Cairo. The first was a disaster. No one showed up except a few cam...

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican is planting 10 chapels in the woods of one of Venice’s lagoon islands for its first-ever contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, ...

WASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia’s young crown prince has an ambitious list of to-dos: modernize his conservative kingdom, weaken Iran’s hand across the Mideast and, this week, rehabilitate his c...

WASHINGTON - A skeptical Supreme Court took aim Tuesday at a California law that forces anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centres to provide information about abortion. A ruling striking down the law cou...