Category Archives: World

STOCKHOLM - The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has seen such extreme warmth this year that the average annual temperature could end up above freezing for the first time on record, scientists said Frid...

NEW YORK - Stocks hit fresh records in a shortened trading session Friday as investors continued to bet on a pickup in economic growth and rising corporate profits. The gains were modest but broad, wi...

VIENNA - In a story Nov. 25 about the delivery of a trail groomer to an Austrian resort, The Associated Press, citing local officials, reported erroneously that the vehicle had initially been sent to ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The white man charged in the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church last year is competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Friday. U.S. District J...

MAYS LANDING, N.J. - Two brothers were shot, one fatally, in the parking lot of a mall in southern New Jersey early Friday, authorities said. Acting Atlantic County Prosecutor Diane Ruberton said the ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria - About 400 migrants have been detained after clashes with police at a refugee camp in southern Bulgaria left several injured, and the country’s prime minister said Friday that s...

PHILADELPHIA - The parents of a toddler allegedly shot by his 4-year-old cousin are facing charges of child endangerment and related offences. Philadelphia police on Friday announced the arrests of Ra...

PARIS - Four long-time friends in their 30s, living in the same French city and communicating through a closed phone line, were planning a terror attack in France as early as next week on orders from ...

LONDON - Since Britain voted to leave the European Union, U.K. officials have had one message: Brexit means Brexit. Now they have EU leaders’ reply: And it’s going to hurt. The prime minis...

MANILA, Philippines - Thousands of Filipinos, including more than a dozen nude students, protested against the hasty burial of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in a heroes’ cemetery, in a gr...