Category Archives: World

KABUL - Afghan security forces uncovered an Islamic State hideout packed with explosives and suicide vests this week in a poor western neighbourhood of the capital, Kabul. An intelligence official tol...

GENEVA - About 90 people are feared drowned after a smuggler’s boat carrying mostly Pakistani migrants capsized off Libya’s coast early Friday, the U.N.’s migration agency said. Ten ...

PARIS - Two French military helicopters on a training flight crashed Friday in the woods of Provence from an apparent mid-air collision, killing the five people aboard, officials said. The crash occur...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A ballet academy founder accused of sexual misconduct will not be charged, the Anchorage District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. The 50-year-old founder of the Anchorage Cl...

TOKYO - Sony Corp. named Chief Financial Officer Kenichiro Yoshida as its new president and CEO on Friday, replacing Kazuo Hirai, who led a turnaround at the Japanese electronics and entertainment com...

SHANGHAI - The driver of a minivan hauling gas canisters in Shanghai set fire to his vehicle while smoking a cigarette and plowed into pedestrians Friday, leaving 18 people injured in the heart of the...

HAVANA - Fidel Castro’s oldest son was mourned in Cuba on Friday after the unusually public announcement of his suicide following a long depression. Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart was known as Fidelit...

SAN FRANCISCO - James Franco’s former high school has taken down a mural he painted and plans to remove other art donated by the celebrity alumnus who is facing allegations of sexual misconduct ...

New York’s Metropolitan Opera said Thursday that it had fired world-renowned British stage director John Copley for what the company called “inappropriate behaviour” during a rehears...

LOS ANGELES - Recording Academy chief Neil Portnow said Thursday the organization is creating a task force to uncover unconscious biases and other barriers that impede women’s success in the mus...