Category Archives: World

Philadelphia police are “addressing” an unusual crime spree: Someone is stealing the ones and zeroes from addresses mounted on people’s homes. WTXF-TV (http://bit.ly/2cMDzy9 ) says i...

WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer prices edged up 0.2 per cent in August as a surge in medical care offset flat readings for food and energy. The result follows an unchanged figure in July. Core inflation, w...

AWEIL, South Sudan - More than one million refugees have fled South Sudan’s ongoing civil war, overwhelming aid agencies and creating one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. The U...

STOCKHOLM - A Swedish appeals court on Friday upheld a detention order for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, dismissing the latest attempt by the 45-year-old Australian to make prosecutors drop a rape...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s “Penny Plan” sounds like a painless pinprick in the federal budget - a 1 per cent annual cut in a chunk of government spending, adding up to huge savings....

NEW YORK - Donald Trump has attached a price tag to an economic vision promising what many economists say is impossible: lower taxes, a dramatic expansion in some federal programs and a slimmer govern...

TOKYO - Eighty-eight places in Japan are going to be designated “animation spots” to encourage tourism - using train stations, school campuses, rural shrines and other fairly everyday plac...

WASHINGTON - After five years as the chief promoter of a lie about Barack Obama’s birthplace, Donald Trump abruptly reversed course Friday and acknowledged the fact that the president was born i...

WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton on Thursday accused rival Donald Trump of fostering ugliness and bigotry by refusing to acknowledge President Barack Obama was born in the United States, and urged Hispani...

PEORIA, Ariz. - A suburban Phoenix elementary school has received some wild visitors. Staff members spotted four burros walking onto the playground of Vistancia Elementary in the city of Peoria on Thu...