Category Archives: World

Boston is staging its annual St. Patrick’s Day parade and gay veterans will be marching. The South Boston Allied War Council had banned the OutVets from Sunday’s parade, saying the group f...

LOS ANGELES - A SpaceX capsule is back on Earth with a full load of space station science samples. The Dragon cargo ship parachuted into the Pacific on Sunday off the Southern California coast. Astron...

FLINT, Mich. - In a story March 19 about the replacement of water lines in Flint, Michigan, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the overall lead level in Flint’s water still exceeds t...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. - Researchers are planning what they say is the first manned submersible expedition to the Titanic since 2005. OceanGate Expeditions recently announced that the seven-week research m...

KEY WEST, Fla. - Key West police detectives nabbed a man wanted in Georgia for an assortment of violent crimes, including felony strangulation and aggravated assault with a weapon - after he used a st...

BOULDER, Colo. - Hundreds of residents were allowed to return to their homes in the foothills just outside this university city on Monday as firefighters make progress against a wildfire possibly spar...

PARIS - Arrests can’t come any easier than this. French gendarmes called to a robbery found the suspected thief stuck in a hole he’d made with a hammer in a shop window. The national genda...

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory - The Palestinian president has awarded his people’s highest honour to a former U.N. official who was forced to resign last week after authoring a report that acc...

LONDON - A man has been charged with criminal damage after a painting in Britain’s National Gallery was slashed in front of shocked visitors. Witnesses say a man lashed out with what looked like...

NEW YORK - Jimmy Breslin scored one of his best-remembered interviews with President John F. Kennedy’s grave-digger and once drove straight into a riot where he was beaten to his underwear. In a...