Category Archives: World

HONG KONG - Asian shares were mostly higher Friday as investors awaited the release later in the day of key U.S. jobs data. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index lost 0.4 per cent to...

NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 11:45 a.m. Stocks are taking a downward turn in midday trading, led by steep declines in banks as interest rates fall. Wel...

LONDON - A British bookshop owner who asks customers for a 50-pence (62-cent) browsing fee has been branded “the bookseller from hell.” Steve Bloom, who runs second-hand emporium Bloomingd...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump has selected former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, a role that would thrust him into the centre of the in...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Soldiers interrogating captured Boko Haram suspects have found one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the insurgents nearly three years ago, along with her baby, Nigeria’...

ATLANTA - The marching band of a historically black college in Alabama will perform in President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inaugural parade, despite a barrage of criticism, the school’s...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Pledges by President Barack Obama and a national non-profit organization to end homelessness among veterans did not meet their goal. But advocates see improvement, and the head of t...

CHICAGO - The Latest on the beating of a white man in Chicago that was broadcast live on Facebook (all times local): 3 p.m. Chicago police say there was never any doubt the beating of a white man broa...

NEW YORK - Fox News Channel says that veteran pundit Tucker Carlson will replace Megyn Kelly in the network’s coveted 9 p.m. time slot sandwiched between Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. Th...

WASHINGTON - U.S. services companies grew again in December during the holiday season, maintaining the high pace reached in the previous month. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade organizatio...