Category Archives: World

BEIJING - The founder of a Chinese luxury online retailer has been extradited from Indonesia to face charges his company smuggled goods into China by having travellers pretend they were personal belon...

LONDON - After more than 150 years as Britain’s most famous timekeeper, London’s Big Ben bell fell silent Monday for four years of repair work that will keep it quiet on all but a few spec...

ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari said his government will step up its campaign against Islamic extremist rebels but made no mention of his health he spoke to the nation for ...

LONDON - Cambridge University Press agreed Monday to restore more than 300 politically sensitive articles that had been removed from the publisher’s website in China at the behest of authorities...

BEIJING - After cutting back the speed of the Beijing to Shanghai bullet train following a deadly crash, China is set to again make it one of the world’s fastest. New generation trains will serv...

LOS ANGELES - Jerry Lewis epitomized what it meant to be a survivor in Hollywood. Through ups and downs in popularity, health troubles and weight fluctuations and the sorts of seismic shifts that take...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - U.S. and South Korean troops kicked off their annual drills Monday that come after President Donald Trump and North Korea exchanged warlike rhetoric in the wake of the Nort...

SINGAPORE - The U.S. Navy ordered a broad investigation into the performance and readiness of the Pacific-based 7th Fleet after the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker collided in Southeast Asia, lea...

SUBIRATS, Spain - The lone fugitive from the Spanish cell that killed 15 people in and near Barcelona was shot to death Monday after he flashed what turned out to be a fake suicide belt at two trooper...

LOS ANGELES - Jerry Lewis, the manic, rubber-faced showman who jumped and hollered to fame in a lucrative partnership with Dean Martin, settled down to become a self-conscious screen auteur and found ...