Category Archives: World

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Four inmates were found dead Friday morning in a dorm at one of South Carolina’s maximum-security men’s prisons, authorities said. The inmates were found at Kirkland Corre...

FRESNO, Calif. - Thirsty California lawns faded to brown from a lack of water in four extraordinarily dry years have revived to bright green in neighbourhoods across the state. Dry riverbeds of sand a...

LONDON - Tim Pigott-Smith, a versatile British actor who recently played Prince Charles on stage and screen, has died at the age of 70. The actor’s agent, John Grant, says Pigott-Smith died Frid...

WASHINGTON - Celebrity chef Jose Andres has settled his dispute with The Trump Organization after backing out of a plan to open a restaurant in Washington’s Trump hotel. Andres’ ThinkFoodG...

LOS ANGELES - Arnold Schwarzenegger says Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich (KAY’-sik) should run again for the White House in 2020, effectively endorsing a primary challenge to President Donald T...

WASHINGTON - U.S. employers cut back sharply on hiring in March, yet Friday’s jobs report still had much to be encouraged about, including a drop in the unemployment rate to 4.5 per cent, the lo...

The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 4:00 p.m. After wavering up and down all day, U.S. stock indexes wound up pretty much where they started. U.S. missile strikes in Syr...

WARSAW, Poland - A fast train hit a flat-bed truck at an unguarded railway crossing Friday in southwestern Poland, sending 19 people to the hospital, including seven with life-threatening injuries, of...

PARIS - A political party that would abolish same-sex marriage - one whose founder wanted AIDS patients rounded up and branded homosexuality “a biological and social anomaly” - is now winn...

SEATTLE - Ed Murray led a long campaign to legalize same-sex marriage in Washington state, toiled for nearly two decades as a state lawmaker and won his biggest personal political victory in 2013 when...