Category Archives: World

LONDON - A recreation of an ancient sculpture destroyed by the Islamic State group is among finalists for a place in London’s Trafalgar Square. Michael Rakowitz’s replica of an Assyrian fi...

BEIJING - Sidestepping recent disputes over Taiwan and regional security, China said Thursday that “important progress” has been made in its relationship with the U.S. under President Bara...

MADRID - Spain’s Supreme Court has sentenced a rapper musician to a year in prison for exalting terrorism and humiliating terrorism victims in Twitter messages. In the tweets posted between 2013...

WASHINGTON - U.S. builders ramped up home construction in December, led by a surge of apartment building, while single-family houses lagged. Housing starts jumped 11.3 per cent last month, to a season...

Beijing will spend $2.7 billion to fight air pollution in the capital this year, state media reported Thursday. Part of the money will be used to close or upgrade more than 2,000 polluting factories, ...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump enters the White House on Friday just as he entered the race for president: defiant, unfiltered, unbound by tradition and utterly confident in his chosen course. In the 10 we...

WASHINGTON - Quick quiz: Recall a phrase, any phrase, from either inaugural speech of one of America’s most accomplished political orators, President Barack Obama. Come up empty? Sad! Fact is, i...

WASHINGTON - Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Energy Department, vowed to be an advocate for an agency he once pledged to eliminate and promised to rely...

WASHINGTON - From a morning stop at church through the swearing-in to the last dance of the evening, it’s going to be an inaugural marathon on Friday. Donald Trump will take Washington by storm,...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump has asked roughly 50 senior Obama administration appointees to remain in their posts after his inauguration to ensure continuity in government, his incoming W...