Category Archives: World

MILWAUKEE - Tigers use a grunt-like snort called chuffing as a greeting, short roars for intimidation and long roars to find mates. Researchers are now trying to use those and other sounds tigers make...

GAZA, Palestinian Territory - An international charity has removed 15 animals rescued from the Gaza Strip’s main zoo, dubbed “the worst in the world.” Four Paws, an animal welfare gr...

AMATRICE, Italy - The Latest on the earthquake in central Italy (all times local): __ 00:30 Among the victims of an earthquake in Italy was an 18-month-old girl whose mother survived the deadly earthq...

PATTANI, Thailand - Two bombs exploded near a hotel in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand, killing one employee and wounding 29 people, police and hospital officials said Wednesday. The explosions o...

PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - Lions, tigers and poodles? North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s latest gift to the residents of Pyongyang, the renovated central zoo, is pu...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday announced a non-travel-related case of Zika in the Tampa Bay region. It’s the first in the state outside the Miami area, but Scott said ...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Entertainer Cher unloaded a freewheeling barrage of insults at Donald Trump during a private fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, comparing him to Hitler and saying he reminded her of th...

WASHINGTON - More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money - either personally or through companies or groups - to the Clint...

AMATRICE, Italy - Rescue crews using bulldozers and their bare hands raced to dig out survivors Thursday from a strong earthquake that reduced three central Italian towns to rubble. The death toll sto...

AUSTIN, Texas - Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he is open to “softening” laws dealing with immigrants in the country illegally, the latest sign that the Republican presidential nomine...