Category Archives: World

Ban Ki-moon ends 10 years at the helm of the United Nations lamenting the “fires still burning” from Syria to South Sudan but buoyed by a global agreement to combat climate change and new ...

NEW YORK - Genealogy detectives have discovered that Benedict Cumberbatch, the British actor who portrays Sherlock Holmes in the PBS television series, is distantly related to the author who created t...

CHICAGO - Hundreds of people carried crosses Saturday for each person slain in Chicago this year during a quiet march along Michigan Avenue. The three-foot-tall crosses were engraved with the name of ...

The latest on the conflict in Syria, and the Russia and Turkey brokered cease-fire agreement between Syria’s government and opposition rebels. All times local. ___ 10:30 p.m. Russia’s U.N....

LAND O’LAKES, Fla. - Authorities are investigating after an Air Force veteran died following a struggle with Tampa Bay-area sheriff’s deputies. The Tampa Bay Times reports (http://bit.ly/2...

LOGAN, Ohio - Backers are fundraising to build an observatory and astronomy park named for the late space hero John Glenn at a state park in his native Ohio. Members of the non-profit Friends of Hocki...

NEW YORK - Officers patrolling New York City’s harbour in a police boat have spotted a whale in the East River. The New York Police Department’s special operations division posted a photo ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis strolled through St. Peter’s Square Saturday evening during the last frigid hours of 2016, exchanging New Year’s Eve greetings with the faithful. Francis made h...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Recovery efforts are expected to begin Sunday for a small plane carrying six people that disappeared over Lake Erie near Cleveland’s shores. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson expres...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - President-elect Donald Trump has ditched his press pool once again - this time travelling to play golf at his club in Jupiter, Florida, without a pool of journalists on hand to...