Category Archives: World

BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping told former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on Friday that Beijing hopes for “stable and sustained” progress in ties with the U.S. following ...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Buzz Aldrin had an unexpected bedside visit from NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman on Saturday as he continued to recover in a New Zealand hospital from his medical eva...

SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah mother and father who followed their son to school and pulled a shotgun from his hand after he fired a round into a classroom ceiling likely prevented bloodshed by acting quick...

MANILA, Philippines - Chinese coast guard ships have rescued two Filipino fishermen in bad weather at a disputed shoal and handed them back Friday to the Philippines in a show of how President Rodrigo...

MOSCOW - Russia’s main domestic security agency says unspecified foreign special services are plotting a series of cyber attacks aimed at destabilizing the nation’s financial system. The F...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Europol warned Friday that the Islamic State group could launch fresh attacks in Europe in the near future, and the agency’s director said police forces across the conti...

BANGKOK - Thailand’s new king on Friday carried out his first official duty, attending a solemn religious ceremony to honour his father and predecessor who died seven weeks ago. King Maha Vajira...

BEIJING - China’s supreme court ruled Friday that a young man executed 21 years ago for rape and murder had been innocent, in a case that has drawn attention to problems in the legal system as w...

BEIJING - Construction on the world’s first full-sized Titanic replica has started in China, a country with a well-documented fascination with the tale of the ill-fated ocean liner. The 300-mete...

NICOSIA, Cyprus - Talks aimed at reunifying Cyprus were back on track Friday after the leaders of the ethnically split island ended a two-week stalemate by agreeing to meet next month to tackle the mo...