Category Archives: World

BOGOTA - Colombians are getting a lesson in manners in the form of a strict 120-page civil code, and nowhere is it causing more angst than in the country’s frenetic capital where jugglers and so...

BEIJING - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang called Wednesday for all parties to return to talks amid rising tensions over North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile programs. Li said China was a strong ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. - The Northeast was in dig-out mode Wednesday, a day after a treacherous storm packing strong winds and accompanying plummeting temperatures left some residents dealing with rock-hard ...

NEWPORT, R.I. - The U.S. Navy is enlisting the help of seals - but not the kind of highly trained special operatives with whom it usually associates. Real seals, specifically their whiskers, may be th...

DALLAS - A 67-year-old Dallas woman climbed a pecan tree on her property to protest a utility company’s plan to trim the branches. Jeri Huber climbed the tree Monday to stop an Oncor crew from t...

YAMAZAKI, Japan - A dim storage room surrounded by bamboo groves and pastoral hills is filled wall-to-wall with 3,000 wooden barrels. Here sleeps, for years, sometimes decades, prized Japanese whisky....

NEW YORK - For a brief, breathless moment Tuesday night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was at the centre of the political media universe. With a single tweet, she set in motion a social media storm, com...

BEIJING - China’s No. 2 leader said Wednesday his government hopes for positive relations with Washington and has no desire for a trade war nor plans to devalue its currency to boost exports. Sp...

LOS ANGELES - Ben Affleck says he has recently completed treatment for alcohol addiction. The actor and director said in a Facebook post Tuesday that it’s the first of many steps toward a positi...

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. - Students at a Detroit-area school celebrated pi by throwing a pie in the face of their favourite teacher. Tuesday is March 14, or 3.14, which is the first three digits of pi. The in...