Category Archives: World

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Spacewalking astronauts hooked up fancy new batteries Friday on the International Space Station’s sprawling power grid. NASA reported that all three lithium-ion batteries ...

ATHENS, Greece - The United Nations refugee agency urged Greek authorities Friday to quickly move asylum-seekers to the mainland from overcrowded facilities on Greek islands, saying conditions remain ...

ABIDJAN, Cote d’Ivoire - Soldiers launched mutinies in three cities across Ivory Coast on Friday, authorities said, demanding higher pay and bringing the threat of unrest back to Africa’s ...

Yahoo Finance says it accidentally tweeted out a racial epithet when promoting a story about the cost of President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to increase the size of the U.S. Navy. The headline ...

ATLANTA - A winter storm striking the South disrupted a new governor’s inauguration in North Carolina, coated roads with hazardous ice and snow in parts of Georgia and Alabama and triggered hund...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis treated a few hundred homeless people and refugees to a simple sandwich lunch on Friday, and urged the faithful to find God in the peripheries of society, not its palaces. ...

IZMIR, Turkey - Police detained 18 people on Friday in connection with an attack near a courthouse in the western city of Izmir that killed a policeman and a courthouse employee. Justice Minister Beki...

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte toured one of the two Russian warships docked in Manila on Friday in another gesture of warming ties with Moscow as he shifts his countryR...

WASHINGTON - Republican Rep. Paul Ryan was among those piling on when President Barack Obama came under fire several years ago for reading some of his daily intelligence briefings, rather than receivi...

BERLIN - Most Germans believe the country is a safe place despite the recent truck attack in Berlin that claimed 12 lives shortly before Christmas. A poll published late Thursday by public broadcaster...