Category Archives: World

Rio de Janeiro’s top samba schools danced and sang hard Monday as millions of other Brazilians did the same during nationwide Carnival celebrations that ridiculed local and world leaders, called...

Palestinian protest icon Ahed Tamimi is to go on trial before an Israeli military court on Tuesday for slapping and punching two Israeli soldiers - an act Palestinians say embodies their David vs. Gol...

YANGON, Myanmar - For four straight days last month, Rahim Muddinn watched, amazed, as Myanmar’s state-run newspapers published special supplements showing Rohingya Muslims accused of being terr...

New York’s attorney general says his office’s four-month investigation of The Weinstein Co. found “a pervasive pattern” of sexual harassment, intimidation and abuse. Attorney G...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Stock markets in Europe and Asia were subdued Tuesday as the afterglow from Wall Street’s overnight rally faded. KEEPING SCORE: Germany’s DAX shed 0.4 per cent ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - From third to fifth grade, Alyson Hochstedler says bullies slammed her son into lockers and punched him. One threatened to stab him. The public school’s administration di...

Seattle’s booming tech industry has brought a massive influx of new residents with big wallets to the city. But an ensuing housing crunch has led to skyrocketing rents and home prices that have ...

ROME - Media mogul Silvio Berlusconi jumped into politics a quarter-century ago vowing to save Italy from the communists. Now he’s waging a crusade to keep Italian populists out of the governmen...

JOHANNESBURG - South Africans on Monday awaited an end to a period of political limbo in which President Jacob Zuma has remained in office despite calls for him to resign because of corruption allegat...

ROME - The United States is urging allied nations to help deal with the growing number of foreign fighters that are being held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, saying the militants should ...