Category Archives: World

RAJA PUR, Pakistan - Police on Thursday arrested the head of a village council in central Pakistan for allegedly sanctioning the rape of a teenage girl, a police spokeswoman said, as Amnesty Internati...

RALEIGH, N.C. - When two wrongfully imprisoned brothers were pardoned after 30 years behind bars, they stood to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation. Now a federal judge is conside...

TOKYO - The leader of Japan’s main opposition party said Thursday she is stepping down, citing her failure to regain voter support despite a series of scandals buffeting the ruling party. The an...

NEW YORK - Hillary Clinton is calling her new book “What Happened” and promising unprecedented candour as she remembers her stunning defeat last year to Donald Trump. “In the past, f...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The United Arab Emirates’ flagship carrier Etihad said Thursday it lost $1.87 billion in 2016, blaming “one-off impairment charges and fuel hedging lossesR...

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions is flying to El Salvador to talk about gang violence, with his future as the nation’s top prosecutor still in doubt. He left Thursday after a week of ...

DODOMA, Tanzania - A Tanzanian poacher who was a subject of a documentary co-produced by Leonardo DiCaprio has been acquitted of several wildlife trafficking charges, though he is in prison for a rela...

LOS ANGELES - Police say Justin Bieber has accidentally struck a photographer with his pickup truck in Beverly Hills. The Los Angeles Times reports that police Sgt. Matthew Stout said the 57-year-old ...

NEW YORK - Wealthy investors say former biotech CEO Martin Shkreli told them he was managing tens of millions of dollars’ worth of investments, that they were making double-digit returns and the...

Boston’s about to bust a rhyme. Dozens of prominent poets, including a former U.S. poet laureate, will commandeer the courtyard of the Boston Public Library on Thursday to read aloud from the ci...