Category Archives: World

LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II missed a traditional New Year’s Day church service Sunday because of the effects of a lingering cold. Buckingham Palace said the queen “does not yet feel ready ...

SAO PAULO - A man broke into a house in southeastern Brazil where his ex-wife was ringing in the New Year and shot and killed her, their son and at least 10 other people before taking his own life, mi...

ISTANBUL - The Latest on a deadly attack on an Istanbul nightclub. (all times local): 7:30 a.m. The State Department has confirmed that a Delaware businessman originally from Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A search resumed Monday for 17 people reported missing after a ferry fire off the coast of Indonesia’s capital that left at least 23 dead, officials said. The victims died S...

NEW YORK - Confetti fell, fireworks boomed and TV cameras rolled as a massive crowd in Times Square said goodbye to a dizzying year dominated by a bitter presidential election and gave a full-throated...

NEW YORK - TV host Ryan Seacrest says he and about five other people got stuck in a Times Square elevator before an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and were rescued by fir...

NEW YORK - The Latest on New York’s New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square (all times local): 12:25 a.m. An estimated 1 million revelers have rung in the new year in Times Square. Uni...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea’s development of banned long-range missiles is in “final stages,” the country’s leader Kim Jong Un was quoted as saying in his New Year&...

KINSHASA, Congo - Political parties in Congo signed a deal late Saturday that calls for President Joseph Kabila to leave power after an election that now will be held by the end of next year instead o...

AUSTIN, Texas - A federal judge in Texas on Saturday ordered a halt to another Obama administration effort to strengthen transgender rights, this time over health rules that social conservatives say c...