Category Archives: World

HARIPUR, Pakistan - Bakhsheesh Elahi was waiting for the morning bus when a lone gunman on a motorcycle pulled up beside him and shot him dead. Rana Tanveer had just taken his family to safety after r...

WASHINGTON - Killer heat is getting worse, a new study shows. Deadly heat waves like the one now broiling the American West are bigger killers than previously thought and they are going to grow more f...

STERLING, Va. - Police in Virginia charged a 22-year-old man with killing a teenage girl who was reported missing after she and her friends left a mosque early Sunday. Fairfax County police charged Da...

IOWA CITY, Iowa - Eddie Tipton, a former employee at the Multi-State Lottery Association, is accused of installing software on Random Number Generators that allowed him to predict winning combinations...

IOWA CITY, Iowa - Investigators were suspicious in 2006 when they heard that a rural Texas judge was trying to exchange $450,000 in consecutively marked bills. But Tommy Tipton, a Fayette County magis...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The Lighthouse Christian Academy promises to provide an exemplary education, a caring atmosphere and service to God - but not for everyone. The school says in its admissions brochu...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis will visit Chile and Peru in 2018, the Vatican announced Monday. The Holy See said Francis will visit Chile from Jan. 15-18, then head to Peru, where he’ll stay until...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - The Latest on Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial (all times local): 3:50 p.m. A judge will hear arguments on whether the names of the jurors at Bill Cosby’s sexual assault...

PARIS - The Latest on Paris security operation on Champs-Elysees (all times local): 5:30 p.m. France’s interior minister says that a driver who rammed a car carrying explosives into a police con...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday struck down part of a law that bans offensive trademarks, ruling in favour of an Asian-American rock band called the Slants and giving a major boost to the Was...