Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - U.S. businesses increased their stockpiles and their sales in August, a possible sign of stronger growth in the closing months of 2016. The Commerce Department says inventories rose a sea...

BERLIN - German prosecutors say they’ve rejected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s appeal of a decision to drop an investigation of a television comedian who wrote a crude poem abou...

STOCKHOLM - With Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize in literature, this year’s Nobel laureates became an all-male ensemble, something that’s not unusual in the 115-year-old history of the p...

JOHANNESBURG - Conflicting reports emerged Friday about whether the first negotiated release of some Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria in 2014 involved a ransom payment, a prisoner...

HAMILTON, Bermuda - Bermuda’s government dispatched crews to clear roads and engineers to inspect infrastructure as the British territory moved to recover quickly from Hurricane Nicole, which ba...

WASHINGTON - U.S. shoppers stepped up their spending in September, with sharply higher sales at auto dealers, restaurants and gas stations. But the government’s retail sales report released Frid...

BANGKOK - Thailand’s king, who died Thursday, was reputed to be the world’s richest royal and one of the wealthiest people on the planet. It was a status that clashed with the carefully ma...

CLEVELAND - Rolling his eyes at the Republican nominee, President Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump’s purported business acumen and newfound rage against the “global elite,” as he ral...

SAN FRANCISCO - How do you run for president during a political cyclone with no precedents and no predictable path? Hillary Clinton has her answer: Slow and steady. As Donald Trump jags across the cou...

TOKYO - Japan has withheld its annual UNESCO dues, saying it wants to make sure the U.N. body properly functions to foster trust among member nations. Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, asked by a report...