Category Archives: World

TOKYO - Nintendo Co. said Friday that its Nintendo Switch video game console will sell for 29,980 yen (about $260) in Japan, starting March 3. The Kyoto-based maker of Super Mario and Pokemon games ma...

INDIANAPOLIS - Much like folks in the Northeast refer to themselves as Yankees, those from Indiana have long referred to themselves as Hoosiers (HOO’-zhurz), even though its origin has been lost...

WASHINGTON - Moscow, we have a problem. Web surfers expecting to tune into C-SPAN’s online feed of debate in the House on Thursday instead saw images supplied by the Russian news site RT, which ...

WASHINGTON - It’s a public relations win for the president-elect: Donald Trump’s company says it will donate profits from any foreign governments that use his hotels. In practice, however,...

BEIRUT - Syria accused Israel of firing missiles early Friday that landed near a major military base west of Damascus, in the third such reported attack in nearly six weeks to hit near the capital. Th...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama announced Thursday he is ending a longstanding immigration policy that allows any Cuban who makes it to U.S. soil to stay and become a legal resident. The repeal of...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is set to ease sanctions against Sudan and broaden now limited talks with the long estranged African government, a U.S.-designated terrorism sponsor whose leader ...

CHASKA, Minn. - The Minnesota judge overseeing Prince’s estate will wait for appeals to be exhausted before making a final determination on who will inherit a fortune that could be worth around ...

WASHINGTON - Vice-President Joe Biden said Thursday that top intelligence leaders told him and President Barack Obama they felt obligated to inform them about uncorroborated allegations about Presiden...

VIENNA - Wanted, part-time: A hermit. Experience not necessary. Municipal and Roman Catholic church officials in the Austrian town of Saalfelden are looking for someone to live in a nearby hermitage b...