Category Archives: World

ANKARA, Turkey - A Kurdish suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden truck into a checkpoint near a police station Friday in southeast Turkey, killing at least 11 police officers and wounding 78 other...

TOKYO - Japanese airline All Nippon Airways has started grounding Boeing 787 “Dreamliner” flights after detecting problems with their Rolls-Royce engines. Nine domestic flights were cancel...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Six Indonesian provinces have declared states of emergency as forest fires blanketed a swath of Southeast Asia in a smoky haze. Singapore’s air quality deteriorated to unhea...

QUETTA, Pakistan - A police spokesman says unidentified assailants killed at least six tribal police officers and wounded two others in an overnight rocket and gun attack in southwest Pakistan. Abdull...

AMATRICE, Italy - The Latest on the earthquake in central Italy (all times local): 7:30 a.m. Another strong aftershock has rattled quake-ravaged central Italy, reportedly causing some more damage to c...

HONOLULU - Four malnourished Hawaiian monk seals have been taken from remote atolls to a Big Island hospital for the endangered animals to be fed fish and fluids to boost their weight, officials said ...

MARYVILLE, Tenn. - A police officer has died in a shooting in eastern Tennessee. Maryville Police Chief Tony Crisp said the officer responded with a Blount County sheriff’s deputy to a domestic ...

DOVER, Del. - A woman who fell 35 feet to her death from a zip line platform had disconnected herself from the safety system, the attraction’s operator said Thursday. Delaware State Police inves...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - On the day Victoria Martens was going to celebrate her 10th birthday, she was found dead in her family’s apartment by Albuquerque police officers, her dismembered remains wra...

SINGAPORE - The world’s first self-driving taxis began picking up passengers in Singapore starting Thursday. Select members of the public can hail a free ride through their smartphones in taxis ...