Category Archives: World

LOS ANGELES - The car in which rapper Tupac Shakur was fatally shot is for sale, with an asking price of $1.5 million. California memorabilia dealer Moments in Time has listed the 1996 BMW 750iL that ...

LONDON - For 82 years, accounting and consulting firm PwC has enjoyed a reputational boon from handling the balloting process at the Academy Awards. Now its hard-won image as a dependable partner is u...

AUSTIN, Texas - The U.S. Justice Department said Monday it is abandoning its longstanding opposition to a key aspect of Texas’ toughest-in-the-nation voter ID law, costing voting rights groups t...

BOSTON - A jury has been selected in the double murder trial of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez. Two final jurors were chosen Monday in Suffolk Superior Court in Massachusetts. Sixteen people, including f...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - A jury from outside the Philadelphia suburbs will be brought in to decide the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby, a judge ruled Monday, rejecting a defence request to move the tr...

ROME - The Colosseum, Rome’s ancient arena, is looking for a new boss. Culture Minister Dario Franceschini on Monday invited candidates worldwide to apply for the director’s post, offering...

WASHINGTON - A simmering dispute between leaders of the House intelligence committee spilled into the public Monday over an investigation into whether President Donald Trump has ties to Russia, even a...

BEIRUT - Airstrikes on Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province killed at least 11 people on Monday, opposition activists said, in the latest spasm of violence to mar U.N.-brokered talks in Geneva betw...

NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 4:00 p.m. Dow Jones industrials closed at a record high for the 12th consecutive time. The Standard & Poor’s 500...

HONG KONG - World stocks eked out modest gains and the dollar weakened against the yen on Tuesday as investors awaited a speech by President Donald Trump to the U.S. Congress. KEEPING SCORE: European ...