Category Archives: World

WOODSTOCK, Ala. - Attention is often a hard-won commodity out in the country, and sometimes it’s the last thing a little town wants. Residents puff out their chests when a high school in a rural...

WASHINGTON - Steady job growth has left U.S. employers with an increasingly shallow pool of unemployed workers to consider hiring, something that could lead to faster wage gains. The number of job pos...

RENO, Nev. - A Twitter plea from a Nevada teen for a year of free chicken nuggets from Wendy’s is now the most retweeted post of all time. Carter Wilkerson asked the fast food chain on Twitter l...

MEXICO CITY - An errant firecracker landed on a cache of fireworks and touched off a powerful explosion at a home in central Mexico, killing 11 children and three adults, authorities said Tuesday. Nat...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Koreans don’t need to be bored by hours of vote-counting and punditry that fill airtime ahead of the announcement of a winner in the country’s presidentia...

LONDON - The Victoria & Albert Museum’s new exhibition is a psychedelic time capsule of a show devoted to the band Pink Floyd, complete with floating pigs, surreal animations and trippy proj...

NEW YORK - Michelle Knight, one of three survivors from being kidnapped and held for years in a Cleveland house, is writing a follow-up to her bestselling memoir about her ordeal. Weinstein Books told...

PARIS - French officials say that three people have died in an avalanche that struck the ski resort of Bonneval-sur-Arc in the Alps. The Savoie prefecture said the avalanche struck around noon (1000 G...

BERLIN - German authorities arrested a second soldier Tuesday on allegations he was part of a far-right plot to assassinate prominent political figures and blame the attack on refugees in a case that ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A West Virginia couple had their hearts set on their wedding date and they weren’t going to let a trip to the emergency room get in the way. WSAZ-TV (http://bit.ly/2q0XOuV) r...