Category Archives: World

BANGKOK - Thailand’s military-ruled legislature on Friday approved constitutional changes desired by the newly enthroned king that would reserve more powers for him. One change made by the Natio...

WASHINGTON - U.S. wholesale prices rose 0.3 per cent in December, led higher by more expensive gas, food and cars. The Labor Department says the producer price index, which measures price changes befo...

ZHUOLU TOWN, China - The brightly-decorated 3-D cinema in this town outside Beijing is showing the latest Chinese and Hollywood films, to row after row of empty red seats. So few people come to watch ...

Luke and Hillary Gardner never have a problem remembering each other’s birthday. After all, the husband and wife were born the same day. And so was their son, 27 years later this past December. ...

JIAXING, China - A Chinese factory has been doing a brisk business selling giant inflatable roosters, some as tall as 16 feet, based on a design widely perceived in China to resemble President-elect D...

OSLO - Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit is asking Norwegian media to leave her oldest son alone. Mette-Marit says Marius Borg Hoiby, her son from a previous relationship who has no royal titl...

BALTIMORE - A day after a massive Baltimore house fire killed six children and injured their three siblings and their mother, classmates of two of the victims turned lockers into makeshift memorials F...

ST. LOUIS - A thick glaze of ice covered roads from Oklahoma to southern Illinois on Friday amid a winter storm that caused numerous wrecks, forced school cancellations, grounded flights and prompted ...

BOSTON - America’s leading poets are averse to Donald Trump, and they’re not about to go gentle into that good night. Poetry slams and other literary events are being organized nationwide ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Two members of Tower of Power, a group that has been an R&B institution for nearly 50 years, were hit by a train as they walked across tracks before a performance in their hometo...