Category Archives: World

BONN, Germany - The foreign ministers of France and Germany voiced cautious optimism Friday about the willingness of the Trump administration to engage on Syria, after new U.S. Secretary of State Rex ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The United Arab Emirates says two Emirati soldiers have been killed while taking part in the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The state-run WAM news agency reported the deaths on ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. - A North Carolina pastor is angry that the maker of the American Girl doll collection is selling a boy version of its pricey dolls. The Asheville Citizen-Times (http://avlne.ws/2lUzA3...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Battling multiple bombers strapped with suicide vests, Nigerian troops and civilian self-defence fighters on Friday repelled the fiercest Boko Haram extremist attack in months on ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - John Glenn’s widow says she misses him “terribly” and was touched by the outpouring of love and support when he died two months ago. Annie Glenn turned 97 on Friday....

TOKYO - Robot probes sent to one of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactors have suggested worse-than-anticipated challenges for the plant’s ongoing cleanup. The plant’s operator ...

NEW YORK - Mark Zuckerberg’s long-term vision for Facebook, laid out in a sweeping manifesto , sometimes sounds more like a utopian social guide than a business plan. Are we, he asks, “bui...

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says President Donald Trump made him order meatloaf when they dined together at the White House this week. Christie and his wife, Mary Pat, joined Trump ...

LOS ANGELES - A powerful Pacific storm blew into Southern and Central California on Friday with wind-driven heavy rains that downed power lines and electrocuted a man, killed a motorist in a submerged...

HONOLULU - The world’s oldest known seabird has a new chick. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday Wisdom’s offspring hatched at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge last week....