Category Archives: World

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Global stocks continued to rise Friday as investors remained buoyed by the European Central Bank’s decision to extend its bond-buying economic stimulus program. South Ko...

NEW YORK - Mick Jagger’s representatives say the rock legend has welcomed the birth of his eighth child. Jagger, the 73-year-old frontman of the Rolling Stones, was on hand Thursday at a New Yor...

NEW YORK - David Petraeus’ former mistress says “it was a bit of a shocker” to learn the retired four-star general was being considered by President-elect Donald Trump for a cabinet ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Authorities say a man has been arrested in Pennsylvania in a brazen art theft from the Muhammad Ali Center in Kentucky. The U.S. Marshals Service says 58-year-old Gerald Garrett was ...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Adolf Burger, a Jewish typographer who was forced by the Nazis to make fake British pounds in a major counterfeit operation during World War II, has died. He was 99. Public br...

WASHINGTON - Long-term U.S. mortgage rates climbed for the sixth straight week in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election win, marking new highs for the year. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac said Th...

WASHINGTON - Fewer Americans signed up for unemployment benefits last week, another sign the U.S. job market remains healthy. THE NUMBERS: The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly claims for job...

INDIANAPOLIS - A local union president slammed by Donald Trump on Twitter stood his ground Thursday, maintaining the president-elect gave false hope to hundreds of workers by inflating the number of j...

BAGHDAD - Iraq’s parliament speaker says an airstrike targeting the Islamic State-held town of Qaim near the Syrian border killed and wounded “dozens” of civilians, and that he is ho...

ATHENS, Greece - A nationwide strike in Greece against spending cuts disrupted public transport, state-run schools, ferries and national rail services and left public hospitals running with emergency ...