Category Archives: World

New York City police have found a rare tortoise that was stolen from an animal shelter. Police announced Tuesday they have recovered the African spurred tortoise named Millennium that was stolen from ...

ORLANDO, Fla. - A former Marine believed so strongly in the war against the Islamic State group that he secretly travelled to Syria, where he was killed this month while fighting for a Kurdish militia...

NEW YORK - At Jef Boeke’s lab, you can whiff an odour that seems out of place, as if they were baking bread here. But he and his colleagues are cooking up something else altogether: yeast that w...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - People in same-sex relationships in South Carolina should get the same legal protections against domestic violence as heterosexual couples, the state’s highest court ruled Wedne...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump abruptly declared a ban Wednesday on transgender troops serving anywhere in the U.S. military, catching the Pentagon flat-footed and unable to explain what it calle...

WASHINGTON - Trump: Transgender people will not be allowed to serve ‘in any capacity’ in the US military. More coming. The Associated Press

WARSAW, Poland - An exhibit of some items from the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz are going on a tour of Europe and North America to bring its tragic truth about the Holocaust to a wider a...

EL PASO, Texas - The bodies of at least three people were recovered Tuesday after they drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico, federal and El Paso officials said. The El Paso Fire De...

BORMES-LES-MIMOSAS, France - Backed by planes dropping water and fire retardant, more than 1,000 firefighters battled wildfires Wednesday that billowed smoke into the sky over France’s southern ...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday his country will respond if a bill in the U.S. Congress imposing sanctions on people involved in Iran’s ballistic missile prog...