Category Archives: World

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Two suicide bombings in northwestern Pakistan killed at least six people on Wednesday following an almost three-month-long lull in the volatile region. A breakaway Taliban faction...

OROVILLE, Calif. - Officials raced to drain more water from a lake behind battered Oroville Dam as new storms began rolling into Northern California on Wednesday and tested the quick repairs made to d...

JACKSON, N.Y. - Authorities in New York are searching for a bull that escaped a livestock auction show. WTEN-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2lNOnMC ) that the bull’s owner was unloading the animal fr...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Firefighters in New Zealand’s second-largest city were able to halt a wildfire’s advance on suburban homes Thursday after it burned down 11 houses in the hill sub...

NEW DELHI - India’s space agency said it successfully launched more than 100 foreign nano satellites into orbit Wednesday aboard a single rocket. The Indian Space Research Organization said the ...

NEW YORK - Quite a rally for Rumor - a commanding comeback for German shepherds, too. Rumor was crowned America’s top dog Tuesday night when, a year after a near miss on the very same green carp...

DALLAS - A Texas jury has found a neurosurgeon guilty Tuesday of maiming patients who had turned to him for surgery to resolve debilitating injuries. The verdict of the Dallas County jury on a first-d...

DAVIS, Calif. - Authorities say a 30-year-old woman is being charged with hate crimes after police say she broke windows and left bacon at a Northern California mosque. The Sacramento Bee reports (htt...

SAN FRANCISCO - Penguins at a California aquarium got more than their daily helping of fish to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Biologist Piper Dwight handed out red hearts to 14 African penguins at t...

LOS ANGELES - The 3-year-old birthday boy was in his pyjamas, about to go to sleep on a cot inside a shelter packed with hundreds of evacuees affected by a damaged California dam. With just three hour...