Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - It’s no Nobel Peace Prize, but Barack Obama has a new honour to brag about. Scientists have named a parasite after him - and there’s no worming out of it. Meet Baracktrema oba...

NEW YORK - For the second year in a row, Serena Williams’ bid to make history ended with a shocking loss in the U.S. Open semifinals. A seventh title at Flushing Meadows, which would have been a...

NEW YORK - Traffic cop or truth detector? The rough reception given Matt Lauer for his back-to-back interviews with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump laid bare a disagreement over whether journalists w...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - A long-awaited vote by a California panel will leave a valuable, 401-acre stretch of oil land overlooking the Pacific Ocean virtually untouched for now and without an immediate...

EUREKA, Calif. - Holy cow! A giant, 1-ton Holstein steer who loves to eat bread and romps like a puppy at a Northern California zoo is vying for the title of world’s tallest bovine. His name is ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Hillary Clinton blasted Donald Trump Thursday for his condemnation of American military generals and his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying her Republican opponent h...

GENEVA - Russia’s foreign minister has arrived in Geneva and briefly met with the U.N. special envoy on Syria. Sergey Lavrov held about a one-hour meeting with U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura at a...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A Marine recruit committed suicide in March amid a widespread culture of hazing and abuse in his battalion at Parris Island that could lead to punishments for as many as 20 officers a...

LOS ANGELES - A decade ago, California vowed to dramatically slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. With the nation’s most populous state on pace to meet that target, Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursd...

LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuarn is coming back to earth, and his home country, for his next film. The “Gravity” director’s new project will take on a year in the life of a m...