Category Archives: World

Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres was sworn in Monday as secretary-general of the United Nations, becoming the ninth U.N. chief in the body’s 71-year history. The former U.N. ref...

WASHINGTON - In selecting Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state, President-elect Donald Trump is making the same bet he asked voters to make on him: that a track record of business a...

ATLANTA - Media mogul Sumner Redstone’s National Amusements is abandoning a proposal that CBS and Viacom reunite after a 10 year split. National Amusements, which owns most of the voting shares ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The Latest on nominations for the 74th annual Golden Globe Awards announced Monday in Beverly Hills, California (all times local): 10:45 a.m. The Golden Globes are known for ma...

NEW YORK - A former White House aide who is now the chief operating officer of a Brooklyn-based media company is working on an upbeat, but “warts and all” book about her years in the Obama...

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. - A “people’s parade” is being planned on Dauphin Island for the upcoming Carnival season. Though the Island Mystics Mardi Gras organization will no longer parad...

LONDON - Global stock markets rose Tuesday as oil prices gained for a third day and China reported relatively strong industrial output for November. The focus is increasingly turning onto Wednesday...

CAIRO - The young man suspected of blowing himself up inside a Cairo chapel during Sunday Mass, killing at least 25 people, had been arrested and beaten by police two years ago after allegedly taking ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - A survivor of a plane crash in Colombia that killed 71 people says the pilot did not tell passengers to fasten their seatbelts right before the aircraft smashed into a hillside. Brazi...

A man shot and wounded two Georgia police officers executing a search warrant early Monday, prompting officers to return fire, killing him, authorities said. The man’s girlfriend and an infant a...