Category Archives: World

STARKE, Fla. - Florida has put a man to death with an anesthetic never used before in a U.S. lethal injection, carrying out its first execution in more than 18 months on an inmate convicted of two rac...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - The king of the small Pacific nation of Tonga on Friday took the extraordinary step of dissolving the nation’s parliament and ordering new elections. Although the gover...

BERLIN - Germany’s Interior Ministry has banned an internet site on allegations it was being used to foment left-wing extremist violence, including at this summer’s G-20 summit. Interior M...

BERLIN - This week’s cover of a popular German news magazine depicting U.S. President Donald Trump draped in the American flag while giving a stiff-armed Nazi salute is drawing sharp criticism f...

LONDON - Britain is set to conduct road trials of self-driving trucks, involving a “platoon” of vehicles controlled by a driver in the front. The Department for Transport said Friday that ...

LONDON - Detectives missed chances to stop pedophile rock star Ian Watkins in the years before he was charged with child sex abuse, Britain’s police watchdog said Friday. Watkins, lead singer of...

JOHANNESBURG - Angola’s ruling party has won the national election but lost ground to the opposition, the electoral commission said Friday, as the oil-rich but impoverished African nation faces ...

NEW YORK - Alec Baldwin has donned his blond wig to reprise his impression of President Donald Trump for NBC’s summer spinoff of “Saturday Night Live.” Baldwin opened Thursday’...

MADRID - Spain’s prime minister on Friday dismissed criticism about the lack of co-ordination between Spanish national authorities and those in the widely self-governed Catalonia region during t...

PANCHKULA, India - Security forces on Saturday patrolled the streets of a north Indian state where rampaging mobs left at least 30 people dead and more than 250 others injured, after a court declared ...