Category Archives: World

TRENTON, N.J. - The latest in a wave of bomb threat hoaxes called in to more than 20 Jewish community centres and schools across the country on Monday again put administrators in the position of havin...

NEW YORK - Usually people don’t notice the “cloud” - unless, that is, it turns into a massive storm. Which was the case Tuesday when Amazon’s huge cloud-computing service suffe...

NEW YORK - Warren Beatty says Academy of Motion Pictures President Cheryl Boone Isaacs should “publicly clarify” what happened during Sunday night’s best picture presentation “...

METHUEN, Mass. - A single-engine aircraft crashed into a condominium building Tuesday on its approach to an airport, killing the pilot and leaving the plane’s tail sticking out of the complex...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A plane that crashed into a California neighbourhood and destroyed two homes was carrying husband-and-wife pilots and their grown daughter, and a mother and daughter who were frien...

PHILADELPHIA - Dozens of volunteers from various faiths helped clean up a Jewish cemetery on Tuesday after scores of tombstones were toppled by vandals, as people from as far as Boston came to Philade...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A South Carolina real estate agent facing seven murder charges, some in deaths dating back more than a decade, has now been charged with rape. According to documents filed Tuesday in ...

ROME - The Italian president has granted partial clemency to an American ex-CIA agent on the eve of her expected extradition from Portugal. The presidential palace said late Tuesday that President Ser...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A former New York community college basketball coach accused of scheming to get star players into NCAA Division I schools with forged transcripts has pleaded guilty. District Atto...

BOGOTA - A retired journalist who joined the criminal underworld while researching a book on South America’s drug cartels became the first Colombian, and possibly the first Latin American, to be...