Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - With the traditional Labor Day marker that start presidential campaigns in earnest, television outlets are getting ready to ride the momentum. NBC News announced Thursday that Matt Lauer wi...

WASHINGTON - U.S. productivity fell in the April-June quarter by a larger amount than first estimated, while labour costs accelerated sharply. Productivity declined at an annual rate of 0.6 per cent, ...

WASHINGTON - Engineers have created clothing for a warming world - a fabric that allows your body heat to escape far better than other materials do. It hasn’t been worn or tested by humans, so o...

MEXICO CITY - President Enrique Pena Nieto’s meeting with Mexico’s most-disliked man is turning into a public relations disaster for a leader already struggling with historically low popul...

The last of three men tried and acquitted in an infamous civil rights slaying in Alabama has died. An obituary says Namon O’Neal Hoggle of Selma, Alabama, died Tuesday. He was 81, and services w...

Los Angeles prosecutors say Tom Sizemore has been charged with three misdemeanours in connection with his arrest in a domestic violence case. The city’s attorney’s office says the “B...

WASHINGTON - Long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week amid expectations in financial markets that an increase in interest rates by the Federal Reserve may be on the horizon. Mortgage rates remain ...

NEW YORK - Civil rights leader and U.S. Rep. John Lewis may be 76, but he’s not too old to crowd surf. The Georgia Democrat wrapped up an interview on Wednesday’s “Late Show with Ste...

ZURICH - Soccer great Franz Beckenbauer is a criminal suspect in a World Cup fraud case. Beckenbauer’s home in Austria was raided for evidence on Thursday on behalf of Swiss federal prosecutors ...

BERLIN - A German village is enjoying its peace after an unruly guest took off: Ronny the stork, who spent the summer pecking at windows and cars as he attacked his own reflection. Ronny’s persi...