Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - The longtime editor of one of the world’s oldest literary publications is stepping down. J.D. McClatchy, a prize-winning poet and librettist, told The Associated Press he is leaving T...

NEW YORK - A subway train derailed near a station in Harlem on Tuesday, frightening passengers, causing minor injuries to seven people and leading to massive systemwide delays. Joe Lhota, the chairman...

WASHINGTON - U.S. consumers became more confident in June -with more Americans pleased by current conditions but slightly less hopeful about what the next six months hold. The Conference Board, a busi...

BERLIN - A small number of artworks from a reclusive German collector’s trove have been presented in Bonn in preparation for a wider exhibition. News agency dpa reported that the German cityR...

PARIS - A new and highly virulent outbreak of data-scrambling software - apparently sown in Ukraine - caused disruption across the world Tuesday. Following a similar attack in May , the fresh cyber-as...

WASHINGTON - U.S. home prices rose at a healthy clip in April, though the increase slowed a bit from the previous two months. The Standard & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price ...

LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II is set to receive an increase in the official funding she receives each year. Buckingham Palace said Tuesday the “sovereign grant” will be 82.2 million pounds (...

LONDON - Britain’s prime minister said Tuesday there must be a “major national investigation” of potentially flammable cladding on high-rise towers, while a German city evacuated an ...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon on Tuesday said it detected “active preparations” by Syria for a chemical weapons attack, giving weight to a White House statement hours earlier that the Syrian g...

MOSCOW - The Kremlin on Tuesday dismissed the White House’s warning that the Syrian government is preparing a new chemical attack and that President Bashar Assad and his military “will pay...