Category Archives: World

KABUL - An Afghan police official says that the Taliban have launched an attack in northern Jawzjan province, trying to capture the district headquarters and setting off heavy fighting. Gen. Rahmatull...

CHICAGO - The fatal stabbing of a hairstylist in Chicago was part of a sexual fantasy hatched in an online chatroom between a Northwestern University professor and an Oxford University employee, whose...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Thousands convened on the grassy grounds of the Missouri Capitol and Kansas City’s towering World War I memorial on Monday, joining crowds throughout the state who witnesse...

AUSTIN, Texas - The University of Texas’ abrupt decision to remove Confederate statues in the middle of the night after the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, raises the question of whether ...

BEIJING - The founder of a Chinese luxury online retailer has been extradited from Indonesia to face charges his company smuggled goods into China by having travellers pretend they were personal belon...

LONDON - After more than 150 years as Britain’s most famous timekeeper, London’s Big Ben bell fell silent Monday for four years of repair work that will keep it quiet on all but a few spec...

ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari said his government will step up its campaign against Islamic extremist rebels but made no mention of his health he spoke to the nation for ...

LONDON - Cambridge University Press agreed Monday to restore more than 300 politically sensitive articles that had been removed from the publisher’s website in China at the behest of authorities...

BEIJING - After cutting back the speed of the Beijing to Shanghai bullet train following a deadly crash, China is set to again make it one of the world’s fastest. New generation trains will serv...

LOS ANGELES - Jerry Lewis epitomized what it meant to be a survivor in Hollywood. Through ups and downs in popularity, health troubles and weight fluctuations and the sorts of seismic shifts that take...