Category Archives: World

Hong Kongers headed to the polls Sunday for the specially administered Chinese city’s most crucial election since the handover from Britain in 1997. The vote for Legislative Council lawmakers is...

NEW YORK - Dabney Montgomery, who served with the all-black Tuskegee Airmen in World War II and marched with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., has died. He was 93. His wife, Amelia Montgomer...

WASHINGTON - City officials in Washington are tearing up a littering citation issued to a toddler. The Washington Post reports (http://wapo.st/2cdBTdD ) 2-year-old Harper Westover received a “No...

CARBONDALE, Pa. - A Pennsylvania police station has reopened after being cleared of a swarm of bees that forced officers to abandon the post. The (Scranton) Times-Tribune (http://bit.ly/2cnxy7d ) repo...

LOS ANGELES - The music manager who helped introduce N.W.A. to the masses has died. Jerry Heller was 75 years old. Heller’s cousin, Gary Ballen, says Heller died Friday night in Southern Califor...

NEW DELHI - Bangladeshi authorities executed a top Islamist party leader convicted of war crimes involving the nation’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan, officials said. Mir Quasem Ali, a ...

PARIS - The leader of France’s far-right National Front set the tone for her campaign for the French presidency Saturday, calling to fight an Islamist “offensive” and promising to ho...

NEW YORK - Diverse wildlife habitat. Acres of hilly grasslands. Creeks for kayaking and meadow trails for hiking and biking. This vibrant landscape at the edge of New York City was once Fresh Kills, t...

STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. - High on a hill overlooking the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers, Dave Archambault II knelt and touched a stone that bears a handprint worn into ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Saturday denounced what he called the modern-day sin of indifference to hunger, exploitation and other suffering, while commending the example of Mother Teresa on the ev...