Category Archives: World

MILAN - Italian prosecutors in Naples have opened a criminal investigation after the suicide of a 31-year-old woman who had fought unsuccessfully to have a video showing her having sex expunged from t...

WASHINGTON - The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT): 9:45 p.m. Hillary Clinton’s campaign is protesting what it calls Donald Trump’s “pattern of inciting people to ...

Philadelphia police are “addressing” an unusual crime spree: Someone is stealing the ones and zeroes from addresses mounted on people’s homes. WTXF-TV (http://bit.ly/2cMDzy9 ) says i...

WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer prices edged up 0.2 per cent in August as a surge in medical care offset flat readings for food and energy. The result follows an unchanged figure in July. Core inflation, w...

AWEIL, South Sudan - More than one million refugees have fled South Sudan’s ongoing civil war, overwhelming aid agencies and creating one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. The U...

STOCKHOLM - A Swedish appeals court on Friday upheld a detention order for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, dismissing the latest attempt by the 45-year-old Australian to make prosecutors drop a rape...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s “Penny Plan” sounds like a painless pinprick in the federal budget - a 1 per cent annual cut in a chunk of government spending, adding up to huge savings....

NEW YORK - Donald Trump has attached a price tag to an economic vision promising what many economists say is impossible: lower taxes, a dramatic expansion in some federal programs and a slimmer govern...

TOKYO - Eighty-eight places in Japan are going to be designated “animation spots” to encourage tourism - using train stations, school campuses, rural shrines and other fairly everyday plac...

WASHINGTON - After five years as the chief promoter of a lie about Barack Obama’s birthplace, Donald Trump abruptly reversed course Friday and acknowledged the fact that the president was born i...