Category Archives: World

MADRID - Security workers checking carry-on luggage at Barcelona’s airport began partial strikes Friday, threatening more queuing chaos for passengers at one of Europe’s most popular airpo...

PHOENIX - A summer storm in Phoenix brought lightning, strong winds and sheets of rain that flooded streets, delayed flights and left thousands of people temporarily without power Thursday evening. Th...

MOSCOW - A flood in a Russian diamond mine left nine people missing Friday, the mine’s owner said. Water surged into the Mir mine in Siberia while 142 people were down in the pit, state-controll...

LEIGHTON, Ala. - Some of the stories about Theron Christopher “T.C.” Dawson Sr. read like something out of an adventure novel or reality television show about men who live and make their l...

TOKYO - Japanese automakers Toyota Motor Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp. plan to spend $1.6 billion to jointly build auto manufacturing plant in the U.S. - a move that will create up to 4,000 jobs, both s...

JOHANNESBURG - Ethiopia’s government on Friday lifted a state of emergency imposed in October after hundreds of people were killed in anti-government protests demanding wider political freedoms....

LUCKNOW, India - Police are investigating a mysterious raft of attacks in which Indian women say they’re waking up to find someone has chopped off their hair and left it neatly on their pillows....

ORRINGTON, Maine - The house that inspired Stephen King’s novel “Pet Sematary” is up for sale in Maine. WCSH-TV (http://on.wcsh6.com/2wb5Rrz ) reports the 113-year-old, four-bedroom ...

SYDNEY, Australia - Two men facing terrorism charges in Australia were involved in an aborted attempt to place an improvised explosive device on an Etihad Airways flight out of Sydney last month in a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco park where three people were shot on a sunny afternoon underwent a $20 million renovation last year and immediately became one of the city’s most popular destin...