Category Archives: World

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A legal journey that could mean life or death for the suspect in the Florida airport mass shooting has begun with appointment of a public defender to represent the Iraq war vet...

CHICAGO - President Barack Obama bid farewell to the nation Tuesday in an emotional speech that sought to comfort a country on edge over rapid economic changes, persistent security threats and the ele...

WASHINGTON - Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions fervently rejected “damnably false” accusations of past racist comments Tuesday as he challenged Democratic concerns about the civil rights commitme...

GENEVA - A European court has rejected an appeal by a Turkish-born couple who were fined in Switzerland for keeping their daughters out of mixed-gender, mandatory public school swimming lessons for re...

TEHRAN, Iran - Hundreds of thousands mourned former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Tuesday, wailing in grief as his body was interred at a Tehran shrine alongside the leader of the coun...

SKIEN, Norway - Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik made a Nazi salute as he walked into a courtroom at a high-security prison where judges on Tuesday began reviewing a ruling that his soli...

KABUL - Two large bombs - one triggered by a suicide attacker - exploded near government offices Tuesday, killing at least 38 people and wounding dozens of others in the deadliest Taliban violence in ...

GENEVA - The leaders of ethnically divided Cyprus delved Tuesday into how power would be shared if the country is reunified as a federation, while a presidential spokesman said swift agreement was not...

COPENHAGEN - Danish police are investigating the deaths of six members of a family and are treating it as a murder case. Police were alerted Monday about “suspicious circumstances” in Ulst...

LOS ANGELES - Carrie Fisher’s death certificate confirms that the actress died of a heart attack, but it says more investigation is needed to try to determine the underlying cause. The Los Angel...