Category Archives: World

HONOLULU - As flames raged through a Honolulu high-rise building, killing three people and injuring a dozen others, some residents didn’t even realize a blaze had broken out until they opened th...

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Mark Hamill has been bestowed one of Disney’s highest honours, but he can’t believe Carrie Fisher wasn’t there to see it. Hamill and Fisher were named Disney Legend...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela’s chief prosecutor on Friday requested the conditional release of a Utah man and his wife detained for over a year on weapons charges in a case that has further ra...

INDIANAPOLIS - An Indiana senator and longtime critic of outsourcing jobs to foreign countries announced Friday that he’s selling his stock in his family’s arts and crafts company after Th...

OKLAHOMA CITY - A white Oklahoma police officer recently acquitted of fatally shooting an unarmed black man submitted her resignation from the Tulsa police department Friday, saying the desk job where...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A rapper arrested in Alabama after a shooting that injured more than two dozen people in Arkansas was being returned there Friday to face charges in another shooting. Court and jail...

WASHINGTON - U.S. businesses increased their stockpiles in May, while sales fell by the largest amount in 10 months. The Commerce Department says business inventories rose 0.3 per cent, rebounding fro...

WASHINGTON - U.S. factory output rebounded in June as manufacturers churned out more cars, appliances and furniture, a reassuring sign for U.S. industry. The Federal Reserve said Friday that factory p...

WINNIPEG - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was back at a Habitat for Humanity worksite Friday, a day after he was hospitalized for dehydration while working with the organization to build homes for...

WASHINGTON - Lower costs for gas, airline tickets, new and used cars and wireless mobile phone plans kept U.S. consumer prices flat in June, evidence that inflation remains muted. The unchanged readin...