Category Archives: World

CAIRO - Sudan’s foreign ministry says Russia’s ambassador to the African country has been found dead in his residence in Khartoum. In a statement carried by the state-run SUNA news agency ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A transgender Singaporean and her friend have been sentenced to a year in prison in the capital of the United Arab Emirates for dressing in a feminine way, friends and fa...

BANGKOK - A Thai lawyer has withdrawn a criminal defamation case against a British BBC journalist involving a report on foreigners being defrauded of property, the BBC says. The case against Jonathan ...

An estimated jackpot of $700 million is up for grabs in the Powerball lottery draw on Wednesday night - potentially the second-largest lottery payout in the nation. Here is a look at the 10 largest U....

KIEV, Ukraine - On the 26th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence from Moscow, U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis accused Russia of menacing Europe and suggested that he favours providing Ukraine...

GENEVA - Rescue workers used a helicopter and dogs to search for at least eight people still unaccounted for in a Swiss Alpine valley on Thursday, a day after a mudslide and rockslide hit a small vill...

CHICOPEE, Mass. - The Latest on the lone winning ticket for the $758.7 million Powerball drawing that was sold in Chicopee, Massachusetts (all times local): 8: 30 a.m. The error by the Massachusetts S...

SINGAPORE - The U.S. Navy on Thursday called off the search at sea for sailors missing after a collision between a destroyer and an oil tanker, and confirmed the identity of one body. The 7th Fleet sa...

HONG KONG - The most powerful typhoon to hit the southern Chinese region in more than half a century left at least 16 dead as a sudden deluge swamped the gambling hub of Macau, submerging streets and ...

BOSTON - A single winning ticket has been sold for the massive Powerball $758.7 million jackpot in Wednesday night’s drawing. The winning ticket was sold in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Here are som...