Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Alaska Airlines has won government approval to buy rival Virgin America after agreeing to reduce its flight-selling partnership with American Airlines. Parent company Alaska Air Group Inc...

SAPULPA, Okla. - A former Oklahoma state trooper accused of sexually assaulting women during traffic stops was sentenced Tuesday to more than eight years in prison after pleading guilty to lesser char...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The video was unambiguous: A white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black man in the back as the man ran away. But a South Carolina jury was unable to agree on a verdict in one ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - An alleged senior commander in the brutal militia of fugitive warlord Joseph Kony pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 70 charges including murder, rape, sexual enslavement and using...

NEW YORK - A Bahamian man who boasted after his arrest for hacking into celebrities’ email accounts that he will someday write a book to “shake up Hollywood” had the book thrown at h...

BRUSSELS - NATO and the European Union made a public show of unity Tuesday in the face of criticism from Donald Trump, hailing their deepening co-operation as the U.S. president-elect insists European...

BOSTON - Minnie Driver, John Cho and Oliver Platt are among 15 Hollywood stars participating in a new Oxfam America program intended to motivate people to help refugees. The “I Hear You” c...

NEW YORK - Vice-President-elect Mike Pence is delivering a speech to a conservative group at Donald Trump’s new hotel in Washington D.C. The Heritage Foundation says Pence will talk Tuesday nigh...

CHICAGO - An architect wants to install four giant pig balloons to cover up the Trump name on the side of the president-elect’s Chicago hotel. New World Design says installation of the gold-colo...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Viviane Goncalves cries softly as she explains why she believes her husband was killed. The 32-year-old widow says she thinks military police shot him in revenge after one of their he...