Category Archives: World

JACKSON, Miss. - A Mississippi woman who desperately tried to direct rescuers to her sinking vehicle after it skidded into a rain-swollen creek was among five people killed in storms across the South....

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Nepal’s only international airport was briefly shut down Monday after a leopard was spotted on the runway, officials said. Tribhuwan International Airport, located in Kathmand...

MOCOA, Colombia - Lines of people quietly walked the streets of Mocoa, followed by hearses carrying coffins to a cemetery where open graves waited. The survivors of the deadly flood that washed throug...

Leave it to Madison Bumgarner to get baseball off to a smashing start. Before the World Series champion Chicago Cubs took the field and after the New York Yankees lost their sixth straight opener, Bum...

NICOSIA, Cyprus - The rival leaders of ethnically divided Cyprus said Sunday more work is needed to prepare the ground for the resumption of stalled reunification talks, despite having their first fac...

LOS ANGELES - To Doris Day’s many admirers, the pert and fresh-faced charmer who starred in “Pillow Talk” and “Move Over Darling” is ageless. But Day turns 95 on Monday -...

PARIS - With just three weeks before the first round of France’s presidential election, far-right candidate Marine Le Pen is working to galvanize voters with the anti-Islam rhetoric that is one ...

NEW DELHI - From Bollywood superstars to political heavyweights, the Regal theatre hosted some of India’s biggest names over more than eight decades. But with nostalgic theatre-goers singing the...

JACKSON, Wyo. - In a story April 2 about grizzly bears expanding their range in the Western U.S., The Associated Press erroneously reported the name and gender of a Center for Biological Diversity att...

TULSA, Okla. - A white Oklahoma police officer charged with manslaughter for fatally shooting an unarmed black man last year says the man’s race had nothing to do with her decision to fire her g...