Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - Actor George Clooney and his wife, Amal Clooney, are donating $500,000 to students organizing nationwide marches against gun violence, and they say they’ll also attend next month̵...

BUCHAREST, Romania - A Romanian museum has defended its screening of French AIDS drama “120 Beats Per Minute” amid protests over gay themes which feature in the film. Lila Passima, directo...

MADRID - Spain’s Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a rapper who argued that his lyrics praising terror groups were protected by freedom of expression laws. The court ruled Tuesday that ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - For years, Zavier Thompson has followed Marvel superhero movies. But the 16-year-old student in Albuquerque has always wanted to see a popular film with a black superhero and black...

TULSA, Okla. - A 63-year-old Oklahoma man convicted of murder and a hate crime in the fatal shooting of his Lebanese neighbour was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole...

Qualcomm is raising its takeover bid for NXP Semiconductors by nearly 16 per cent to about $43.22 billion, citing in part NXP’s strong results since the companies first announced their merger in...

WEST WARWICK, R.I. - Rhode Island is marking the 15th anniversary of a nightclub fire that killed 100 people and injured more than 200 others. The Feb. 20, 2003, fire at The Station nightclub in West ...

JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, already reeling from a damaging police report into alleged corruption, faced yet another scandal on Tuesday - with allegations that a longtime confidant ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is endorsing Mitt Romney in Utah’s Senate race, another sign that the two Republicans are burying the hatchet after a fraught relationship. The GOP’s pr...

BANGKOK - A Thai court on Tuesday granted legal custody of 13 babies carried by surrogate mothers to a secretive Japanese millionaire who is their biological father, reviving a bizarre tale that captu...