Category Archives: World

CANNON BALL, N.D. - Construction of the final segment of the Dakota Access pipeline has begun, and the full system should be operational within three months, the developer of the long-delayed project ...

MANCHESTER, Pa. - Pandemonium broke out at a southern Pennsylvania supermarket when a rogue deer smashed through its glass entrance and briefly ran amok. The doe burst into a Giant grocery store in th...

LONDON - Physicist Peter Mansfield, who won the Nobel Prize for helping to invent MRI scanners, has died at the age of 83. The University of Nottingham released a statement from Mansfield’s fami...

NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 4:00 p.m. Strong earnings from big U.S. companies helped drive stock indexes further into record territory. Financial stoc...

HONG KONG - World stock markets mostly kept rising on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump promised he would soon cut taxes for businesses. KEEPING SCORE: Germany’s DAX added 0.3 per cent to...

WASHINGTON - Long-term US mortgage rates eased slightly this week. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the rate on 30-year fixed-rate loans slipped to an average 4.17 per cent from 4.19 per cent last week...

BERLIN - A town in Germany has stopped playing a popular children’s song about a fox who steals a goose after a complaint from a vegan. Limburg’s town spokesman Johannes Laubach told the d...

WASHINGTON - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dipped to a 12-week low at the start of February, a sign of a stable job market for U.S. workers. THE NUMBERS: Claims for jobless aid...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama’s governor on Thursday named state Attorney General Luther Strange to the U.S. Senate seat left empty by Jeff Sessions. Strange will replace Sessions, whose selection ...

BUCHAREST, Romania - Romania’s justice minister resigned Thursday following mass protests over a law that eases criminal penalties for government officials engaged in corruption. His departure d...