Category Archives: World

TOPEKA, Kan. - Kansas collected nearly $13 million less in taxes than anticipated in October, with the latest disappointing report Tuesday coming a week before an election determines whether voter dis...

SAO PAULO - A man shown on security footage violently attacking a woman at a bar in a small town in southeastern Brazil will be charged with assault and battery, police said Tuesday. Images aired by t...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama likes to say the White House is the “people’s house.” Now, the people are getting a look at the rooms where he lives. Exclusive photos published T...

STOCKHOLM - Swedish police are searching for suspects in the killing of two brothers who were gunned down in the city of Goteborg. The shooting late Monday was the latest in a string of similar attack...

STRATHAM, N.H. - A pot-bellied pig that survived a butcher and an escape from an adoptive home is getting a new family. The 3-year-old pig named Missy first arrived at the New Hampshire Society for th...

NEW YORK - A 94-foot Norway spruce from the northern foothills of New York’s Catskill mountain range has been chosen as this year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. Organizers say the tr...

BUCHAREST, Romania - All night long, a cold wind howled around the gothic castle that inspired the Dracula legend, as a Canadian brother and sister became the first people to pass the night there in 7...

WASHINGTON - Manufacturing expanded in the United States and China last month, good news for a sputtering global economy. The Institute for Supply Management said Tuesday that its manufacturing index ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. builders cut their spending on construction projects in September, the second straight monthly decline. Much of the decrease came as government spending for schools, sewers and trans...

DETROIT - It’s a chilly autumn for U.S. auto sales. Sales of new cars and trucks fell an estimated 4 per cent in October as consumer demand waned, according to Autodata Corp. Hyundai and Subaru ...