Category Archives: World

BERLIN - A 20-kilogram (44-pound) minute hand has fallen off a clock on a Hamburg church tower, plunging 40 metres (130 feet) onto the sidewalk below. Hamburg’s fire service said Sunday that the...

ISTANBUL - A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday during a Turkish police raid against suspected Islamic State members near the Syrian border, killing three police officers and wounding nine other pe...

BEIRUT - Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces captured the symbolically-significant town of Dabiq from the Islamic State group on Sunday as government forces reversed recent rebel advances in the c...

CHICAGO - Miguel Montero delivered a memorable swing, Javier Baez stole home with his daring dash down the line and Jon Lester turned in another steady performance on the mound. It all added up to ano...

Dennis Byrd was an inspiration for far more than anything he ever accomplished on a football field. He was able to walk again. And with each step he took toward recovery from paralysis while guided by...

EDISON, N.J. - Donald Trump says that, if he’s elected to the White House, there won’t be any relationship more important to the U.S. than its relationship with India. Trump says at a Repu...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korea and the U.S. said Sunday that the latest missile launch by North Korea ended in a failure after the projectile reportedly exploded soon after liftoff. The South...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The International Space Station is about to get its first delivery from Virginia in two years. Orbital ATK, one of NASA’s shippers, aims to launch its own cargo ship Sunda...

WASHINGTON - . The U.S. military said Saturday it’s detected what’s being described as a failed missile launch by North Korea. The launch occurred near the northwestern city of Kusong and ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Yemen’s Houthi rebels released two U.S. citizens on Saturday, without identifying the Americans. Kerry said they were freed as par...