Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Newly released emails show Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt personally monitored efforts last year to excise much of the information about climate change from th...

TOKYO - Japan has a new cafe where customers can enjoy coffee brewed and served by a robot barista. The robot named Sawyer debuted this week at Henna Cafe in Tokyo’s downtown business and shoppi...

NEW ORLEANS - Alabama made news with its good-natured dig at New Orleans - billboards touting Mobile as the home of America’s original Mardi Gras celebration. The billboards near New Orleans and...

Colin Kaepernick’s first two “protests” drew scant attention. He sat on the bench, out of uniform, virtually unnoticed. His third got some buzz after a reporter tweeted a picture of ...

CROZET, Va. - The lead investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board said it’s too early to say whether the safety arms at a rural Virginia crossing were working when a train carryin...

HONOLULU - A woman accused of deliberately driving off a Hawaii cliff and killing her identical twin sister was acquitted of murder Thursday. Second Circuit Judge Peter Cahill found Alexandria Duval n...

FARGO, N.D. - A North Dakota woman who earlier admitted killing a pregnant neighbour to get her baby did it by cutting the baby from the mother’s womb as she faded in and out of consciousness, p...

HONG KONG - The video shows students at the so-called “female morality school” in northeastern China getting up at 4:30 a.m. to scrub floors and being taught not to resist if their husband...

MALE, Maldives - The exiled former leader of the Maldives said he will mount a fresh challenge for the presidency this year after his conviction for abducting a judge was overturned by the countryR...

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top foe in next month’s election isn’t a candidate; it’s public apathy. But he has one rival who could draw voters to the polls: the...