Category Archives: World

GENEVA - Angelina Jolie has made a strong defence of the United Nations, saying the world body, as “imperfect” as it is, needs reform but also support. The American actress and special env...

LONDON - Britain’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday against a woman who tried to overturn her mother’s will after the estate was left to animal charities. Britain’s Supreme Court sided ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A Florida judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in a lawsuit over the killing of an unarmed nurseryman by a sheriff’s deputy after jurors said they could not reach a unanim...

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate for the second time in three months and forecast two additional hikes this year. The move reflects a consistently solid U.S. eco...

BERLIN - The European police agency says that 67 stolen paintings have been recovered from an apartment in Vienna more than two years after they were stolen from a villa in a suburb of the Austrian ca...

WASHINGTON - Reports of sexual assaults increased at two of the three military academies last year and an anonymous survey suggests sexual misconduct rose across the board at the schools, The Associat...

TRENTON, N.J. - A federal judge has dismissed a discrimination lawsuit that said one of New Jersey’s top pork roll makers fired a worker for passing too much gas. Louann Clem said her husband st...

MADRID - Former Guatemalan interior minister Carlos Vielmann has been absolved by a Spanish court in a high-profile case of summary executions of inmates a decade ago. Vielmann, who has Spanish nation...

BERLIN - The Austria Press Agency says four mountain climbers have been killed in an avalanche in the Austrian Alps. The report, citing police, says the climbers were part of an eight-person ski touri...

WASHINGTON - Two Russian intelligence agents and a pair of hired hackers have been charged in a devastating criminal breach at Yahoo that affected at least a half billion user accounts, the Justice De...