Category Archives: World

EL ALTO, Bolivia - Mariana Limachi left the hospital in this high Andes city in tears after a doctor told her she needed a C-section because the umbilical cord was wrapped around her 8-month fetus. In...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Jane keeps the well-worn sarong wrap neatly folded in her home in a Nairobi slum, a memento of a life-altering event a decade ago. She was draped with it after two policemen raped her...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Nearly two tons of trinkets, statues and jewelry crafted from the tusks of at least 100 slaughtered elephants are heading for a rock crusher in New York City’s Central Park to dem...

WASHINGTON - Ousted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci had high hopes for improved relationships with reporters, according to a memo posted online Wednesday. The memo list five pri...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Two women trashed a Florida Chick-fil-A restaurant during an argument over an order. Allison Music, who was in the restaurant and posted videos of the tirade online, tells Action ...

WALTHAM, Mass. - The actor who played Luke Duke in the 1980s television show “The Dukes of Hazzard” is facing indecent assault and battery and drug charges in Massachusetts. The Middlesex ...

WARSAW, Poland - Young people have gathered for a major annual music festival in Poland that celebrates diversity and tolerance - and which has faced pressure recently from the conservative government...

WASHINGTON - Orders at U.S. factories increased in June as demand surged for aircraft. The Commerce Departments said Thursday that factory orders increased 3 per cent in June, a solid rebound after de...

YOKOSUKA, Japan - North Korea’s flurry of missile launches - 20 of them just in the past year - is a new and alarming fact of life for Japan and its other neighbours. But Pyongyang’s recen...

AIN ISSA, Syria - The 17-year-old Indonesian girl made a persuasive case to her family: Lured by what she had read online, she told her parents, sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins they should all move...