Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - Drake has nabbed 12 nominations for the 2016 Soul Train Awards. Nominations for the rapper-singer, who cancelled three shows this week due to an ankle injury, include video, album/mixtape a...

HAMILTON, Bermuda - Hurricane Nicole roared across Bermuda on Thursday, pummeling the resort island with winds up to 115 mph that snapped trees and peeled off roofs before the storm spun away into ope...

TOKYO - An extensive blackout struck Tokyo on Wednesday, affecting government offices and halting trains in the Japanese capital just before the evening rush hour. Tokyo Electric Power Co., a utility ...

BEIRUT - An airstrike hit the biggest market on the rebel-held side of Syria’s Aleppo on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and levelling buildings as rescuers were still sifting through the ...

GENEVA - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump would be “dangerous from an international point of view” if elected, the U.N. human rights chief said Wednesday, defiantly doub...

TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 340,000 gas-electric hybrid Prius cars around the world 212,000 of them in Japan and 94,000 in North America, for a defect in their parking brakes. Japanese aut...

PARIS - Lawyers for the only surviving suspect in last November’s attack in Paris say they will no longer defend him because he refuses to speak. Frank Berton and Sven Mary said they’ve de...

For a storm that inflicted less damage than many had feared, Hurricane Matthew nevertheless impaired or destroyed more than 1 million structures, forced businesses from Florida to North Carolina to cl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Donning fresh post-season victory gear, the Chicago Cubs gathered on the mound and posed for a group photo. They jumped up and down, saluted the fans cheering “Cub-bies!” b...

NEW YORK - Amazon is launching a paid streaming music service, the latest entry in an increasingly crowded field. Amazon Music Unlimited is being positioned to compete against existing services such a...