Category Archives: World

JERUSALEM - Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing calls to resign amid a raft of corruption investigations, but the only prodding he got from Conan O’Brien concerned his cho...

PORTLAND, Maine - The leader of the successful effort to get the federal government to protect land near Maine’s tallest mountain says he’s feeling optimistic after a telephone chat with I...

LONDON - It was so human. So accessible. So very Diana: Prince William, the heir to the British throne, sprinting down the track at London’s Olympic Park with his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge,...

Gilead Sciences will pay $11.9 billion in cash to buy Kite Pharma and plant a stake in an emerging area of cancer treatments that train a patient’s immune cells to attack tumors. Kite’s po...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A Tennessee theatre has cancelled a long-running screening of “Gone With the Wind” because of racially insensitive content in the classic 1939 film. Officials at Memphis&#...

PARIS - The French presidential palace has a new occupant. Nemo has taken his first steps as the country’s “first dog” after being adopted by President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, ...

HOUSTON - Kevin Hart has made a sizable donation to flood relief efforts in Houston, and he wants some of his famous friends to do the same. The comedian announced a $25,000 donation to the American R...

ALLOWAY, N.J. - A New Jersey mom was high on drugs in her car and left her 2-year-old daughter unattended for hours in a car seat, where she fatally injured herself, prosecutors said. Deanna Joseph ca...

LONDON - Hundreds of thousands of revelers packed the streets of London for the annual Notting Hill Carnival on Monday, pausing their celebrations to remember the victims of the deadly Grenfell Tower ...

HOUSTON - The Latest on Tropical Storm Harvey (all times local): 2:03 a.m. One of the nation’s busiest trauma centres is clearing space for an influx of patients it expects will need care once T...