Category Archives: World

BAGHDAD - Iraq welcomed its removal from a revised U.S. travel ban on Monday, saying the move would strengthen its alliance with Washington as U.S.-backed Iraqi forces battle the Islamic State group i...

BOSTON - A new documentary is spotlighting human trafficking across the globe, with a focus on the grassroots activists trying to end the scourge. “Stopping Traffic” premieres at the Globa...

BANGKOK - Teak chips from pulverized balconies and broken-up floors shower down on workers as they cart out an old TV, a bamboo sofa and a shattered mirror from a house dating back to the 1920s. Meter...

BOGOTA - In a tiny brick apartment above a lottery shop, Martha Antivar waits for a sign of life from her husband, who is languishing in a Chinese prison an ocean away. Five years ago, Oscar Hilarion,...

PARIS - The brother-in-law of a missing French couple has confessed to killing them and their two adult children with a crowbar, then dismembering the corpses, over an old inheritance dispute, authori...

LOS ANGELES - Emma Watson has hit back at critics who claimed her recent photoshoot for Vanity Fair betrayed her feminist ideals. In one image from the shoot, photographed by Tim Walker, Watson poses ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The economy is up, unemployment is down and some Dutch prisons are so empty the government has been renting out cells. So why do polls indicate that the Netherlands’ rul...

BEIJING - Chinese authorities have shut down activist Ye Haiyan’s blogs and forced her to move from one city to another. Left with few options, she now produces socially conscious paintings to m...

NEWARK, N.J. - A former New Jersey attorney general and mentor to Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court. David Samson pleaded guilty last summer to br...

LONDON - In a debate that has gone from office corridors to Britain’s Parliament, lawmakers put their foot down Monday and urged employers to stop making women wear high heels as part of corpora...