Category Archives: World

Select winners at the 2017 Grammy Awards: Best new artist: Chance the Rapper. Song of the year (songwriter’s award): “Hello,” Adele and Greg Kurstin. Best pop solo performance: ̶...

LONDON - Glamour was shot through with grit at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday. Frothy musical “La La Land” took five prizes including best picture, but major awards also went to...

JERUSALEM - An American professional football player has pulled out of a planned trip to Israel, accusing its government of trying to use him for PR purposes. Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman Michae...

OTTAWA - The Conservative party is offering support to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he prepares to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday. Interim leader Rona Ambrose has sent a letter to...

LOS ANGELES - Adele, who had trouble with her live performance at last year’s Grammys, restarted her tribute to George Michael Sunday at the Grammy Awards, telling the audience: “I canR...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof has asked for a new federal trial, saying prosecutors didn’t have jurisdiction to bring their case against him. Roof’s atto...

ALBANY, N.Y. - The Pentagon is launching efforts to solve a baffling World War II mystery: whether dozens of U.S. sailors listed as missing from a ship disaster were actually recovered and buried all ...

BASEL, Switzerland - Voters in Switzerland decided Sunday to make it easier for young “third-generation foreigners” to get Swiss citizenship, agreeing to extend to about 25,000 people unde...

SRINAGAR, India - A protester was killed and dozens of others wounded Sunday as government forces fired at demonstrators demanding an end to Indian rule in Kashmir following a gunbattle that killed fo...

BEIRUT - Turkey’s president says his troops and allied Syrian fighters have reached the heart of the Islamic State stronghold of al-Bab in northern Syria and will eventually march on the extremi...