Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - Former first lady Michelle Obama said Friday that her departure from the White House won’t end her passion for education. She made the comment at a New York City event marking College...

LONDON - Britain’s monarch has met a queen of the fashion world, as Vogue editor Anna Wintour was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. Wintour was made a dame - fem...

BOSTON - Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez was a member of the Bloods street gang and was once disciplined for having gang paraphernalia, according to newly released documents related to the investigati...

BERLIN - Feeling nervous before your flight? Travellers at one German airport can now receive spiritual solace by entering a booth and listening to a prayer of their choice before boarding the plane. ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico is closing 179 public schools in a move expected to save more than $7 million amid a deep economic crisis that has sparked an exodus to the U.S. mainland in the pas...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - A former deputy mayor in New Jersey is resurrecting her career as a burlesque dancer for charity. Former Jersey City deputy mayor Leona Beldini will take the stage as Hope Diamond ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A U.S. service member has been killed in Somalia during an operation against the extremist group al-Shabab - the first U.S. combat death there in more than two decades - as the Un...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A cargo plane contracted by UPS went off the runway and over a steep, wooded hillside Friday at a West Virginia airport, killing the pilot and co-pilot, an airport official said. N...

PARIS - The Latest on the French presidential runoff on Sunday (all times local): 1:30 a.m. France’s election campaign commission is examining a hacking attack on candidate Emmanuel Macron’...

NEW DELHI - India’s top court on Friday upheld the death sentences of four men who were convicted in the fatal gang-rape and torture of a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in the India...