Category Archives: World

GENOA, Italy - Pope Francis prayed Saturday for the Coptic Christians killed a day earlier in Egypt by Islamic extremists, saying that there are more Christian martyrs today than in ancient times. Dur...

BARCELONA, Spain - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy warned Catalan business leaders on Saturday of “terrible economic consequences” if separatists win independence for the northeastern...

FARGO, N.D. - Spencer Kuhlman was playing junior hockey in Canada when a knee injury wiped out his hopes of playing in college. With time on his hands, Kuhlman turned to another passion - aviation - a...

TAORMINA, Italy - As he dashed through the Middle East and Europe, Donald Trump looked like a conventional American leader abroad. He solemnly laid a wreath at a Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, had a...

BOGOTA - With a shot to the chest, Alejandro Caro fell from his motorbike while on patrol in a small town in northern Colombia, another victim of criminal gangs who have killed 11 officers over the pa...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In a story May 27 about (topic), The Associated Press reported erroneously that Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge covers 2,300 square miles (5,957 square kilometres.) ...

WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats on Sunday demanded to hear directly from top White House adviser Jared Kushner over allegations of proposed secret back-channel communications with Russia, saying ...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Muslims in Portland, Oregon, thanked the community for its support and said they were raising money for the families of two men who were killed when they came to the defence of two yo...

LONDON - British Airways said many of its IT systems were back up and running Sunday, but some travellers will likely face cancellations and delays for a third straight day after a global computer fai...

LONDON - The Latest on British Airways flight stalled by IT failure (all times local): 4:40 p.m. British Airways says it is cancelling all of its flights from London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airpo...