Category Archives: World

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish police detained four Islamic State group suspects who were allegedly planning to carry out a “sensational” attack in Turkey and seized 24 suicide attack belts, off...

TOKYO - In a story Feb. 7 about engineer Yasuhisa Toyota’s work in concert halls, The Associated Press reported erroneously that he founded his company. He is not the founder of Nagata Acoustics...

PARIS - A fire led to a blast in the machine room of a nuclear power plant on France’s northwest coast on Thursday morning but there was no radiation leak or casualties, operator EDF said. EDF s...

ANKARA, Turkey - A Russian warplane on Thursday accidentally hit a building in northern Syria with Turkish soldiers inside, killing at least three troops and wounding 11, Turkey’s military said....

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Attorneys for Rolling Stone magazine are heading back to federal court to try to overturn a jury’s defamation verdict over its botched story “A Rape on Campus.”...

ELKO, Nev. - A rural northeast Nevada county declared a state of emergency Thursday after an earthen dam failed, releasing fast-moving water that forced trains to reroute and closed part of a washed o...

PHOENIX - Police made several arrests as protesters blocked enforcement vans from leaving a U.S. immigration office in Phoenix, fearing that a mother of two was headed for deportation. The protest sur...

BEIJING - Millions of foreigners visiting China each year will now have their fingerprints collected. The country’s Ministry of Public Security said in a statement Thursday that it will begin ta...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump insisted Thursday that comments by his Supreme Court nominee criticizing his own attacks on the judiciary were “misrepresented,” even as Republican and ...

BERKELEY, Calif. - Physicist Arthur Rosenfeld, who spearheaded breakthroughs in energy efficiency for lighting, refrigerators, televisions and other electronics while working at the Lawrence Berkeley ...