Category Archives: World

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - From the very first prize presented Sunday, and even before the show began, politics took a starring role in MTV’s Video Music Awards. Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer,...

ROCKPORT, Texas - Sam Speights takes medication for extreme anxiety and panic attacks. But there’s no pill for a hurricane - especially when he ventured into it at the height of its fury. “...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Monday prepared to visit Texas to view the federal government’s response to Harvey’s devastating flooding as his administration vowed to help the mil...

BOSTON - A new film chronicling the story of Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman will premiere at the hospital where he and others who were injured in the 2013 deadly attack were treated. Dir...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - More than 1,000 people have died from the mudslide and flood that hit Sierra Leone’s capital nearly two weeks ago, a local leader and a minister said Sunday during servi...

HOUSTON - Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas coast some 175 miles (280 kilometres) from Houston, but the nation’s fourth-largest city has never needed a direct strike from a catastrophic st...

HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. - State police have helped capture a wayward bull that was found walking along a major interstate highway in New Jersey. The young black bull was spotted around 8:15 a.m. Sunda...

KAMPALA, Uganda - The United Nations World Food Program says it has reduced food rations for 320,000 refugees living in northwest Tanzania as a result of funding shortfalls. WFP said in a statement Su...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen says an airstrike that killed at least 14 civilians, including eight members of a single family, was the result of a “tech...

BEIRUT - The remains of eight Lebanese soldiers kidnapped by the Islamic State group three years ago were located Sunday, a senior Lebanese official said, in a negotiated deal that followed a military...