Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Years after she left the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor remained enthusiastic about the early morning exercise class she started at the highest court in the land - the b...

MATOBO NATIONAL PARK, Zimbabwe - The remains of British imperialist Cecil John Rhodes lie under a slab of stone atop a granite hill in Zimbabwe, largely unscathed by political ferment over a man whose...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - It sounds almost too good to be true: A free trip to New Zealand to interview for a job in the tech sector. But that’s what local authorities and businesses in the capi...

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife are expecting their second child. In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg says his wife Priscilla Chan is pregnant with a girl. The cou...

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory - President Donald Trump invited Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to the White House to discuss resuming peace talks in their first contact since Trump took office in J...

WASHINGTON - Women seeking abortions and some basic health services, including prenatal care, contraception and cancer screenings, would face restrictions and struggle to pay for some of that medical ...

BERLIN - A 19-year-old man arrested in the death of a neighbour’s boy has admitted to killing the child and a 22-year-old acquaintance, citing frustration over a rejected bid to join the German ...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - This was not supposed to happen in South Korea. It was too divided, too corrupt, too much in thrall to the rich and powerful who’d always had their way. Four months a...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - That Duindorp has no immigrant community to speak of is part of its charm for Willem van Vliet, who runs the “Willem and Toet” fish bar in the neighbourhood’...

WASHINGTON - American Indians and their supporters are rallying in Washington against continued construction of the disputed Dakota Access pipeline. A federal judge this week declined to halt construc...