Category Archives: World

NAIROBI, Kenya - A Kenyan police officer shot dead seven colleagues, including a hostage response team member, before the standoff ended in a shootout, a police report said Thursday. The suspect, Abdi...

LONDON - He’s insulted everyone from the president of the United States to the people of Papua New Guinea. Now the remarkably undiplomatic Boris Johnson, his political career miraculously revive...

LONDON - Britain’s Prince Harry has taken a nearly instant HIV test as part of his campaign to raise awareness about the virus. The results of the simple finger-prick test were negative and Harr...

LONDON - Theresa May wanted Britain to stay in the European Union, but the government she unveiled Thursday leaves little doubt that Britain’s new prime minister intends to fulfil voters’ ...

MUNCIE, Ind. - An animal shelter is asking “Pokemon Go” players to walk an adoptable dog as they wander the streets of an eastern Indiana city doing battle with digital monsters on their s...

WASHINGTON - Conceding her outspoken criticism of Donald Trump was “ill advised,” Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg apologized Thursday in an effort to quiet mounting complaints th...

WASHINGTON - The vast majority of Americans say they are afraid of at least one of the two major candidates - Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump - winning the White House, a remarkable finding that refle...

WASHINGTON - Long-term U.S. mortgage rates moved little this week, remaining near historically low levels in the wake of financial disarray in Europe. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac said Thursday the aver...

BERLIN - German drug and chemicals firm Bayer increased its offer for U.S. seed company Monsanto Co. on Thursday by $3 a share to $125, saying the move followed several weeks of private talks between ...

CINCINNATI - A biopic on the life of New York mob boss John Gotti starring John Travolta is set to begin filming in Cincinnati later this month. Travolta will play the title character in “The Li...