Category Archives: World

COPENHAGEN - The family of a Swedish journalist missing since a trip off Copenhagen a week ago on a home-built submarine says “it seems the worst has happened.” The parents and brother of ...

JEFFERSON, Ohio - A school district in Ohio has cancelled classes on Monday over concerns about students damaging their eyes while looking at the solar eclipse. The superintendent of Jefferson Area Lo...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Its jagged, soaring peaks rise high over northwest Wyoming, but Grand Teton National Park is always in the shadow of its world-renowned neighbour, Yellowstone National Park. But thank...

HUNTINGDON, Pa. - The oldest known living person in the United States is celebrating her 114th birthday in Pennsylvania. The state Aging Department says Delphine Gibson hit the milestone Thursday, get...

BOSTON - New England’s fall foliage forecast is looking so fine it’s enough to make a maple leaf blush. For the first time in several years, little has conspired against a truly glorious a...

MEDFORD, Mass. - Some of the brightest minds in math arrived at Tufts University last week to tackle an issue lawyers and political scientists have been struggling with for decades. They came from col...

Confederate monuments are being removed around the country under pressure from those who say they honour a regime that enslaved African-Americans. The pace has increased, however, in the wake of last ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - A statue of the U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery and denied citizenship to African Americans was removed from the grounds of the M...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is being criticized once again for lauding the alleged tactics of Gen. John Pershing in dealing with Islamic extremists in the Philippines at the turn of the last c...

HELSINKI - A man stabbed eight people Friday in Finland’s western city of Turku, killing two of them, before police shot him in the thigh and detained him, police said. Authorities were looking ...