Category Archives: World

BRIDGEWATER, Conn. - A simple plastic cup of beer has made history by being the first alcoholic drink sold in a small Connecticut town in 81 years. The affluent bedroom community of Bridgewater had be...

PARIS - France’s former conservative president Nicolas Sarkozy announced Monday he is running for the presidency again in next year’s elections, an awaited move that is expected to lead to...

WARSAW, Poland - Anette Mattsson had bid 200,000 euros ($226,500) for a prized grey Arabian mare but soon stopped. With the price rising rapidly and no sign of other bidders, she sensed that something...

COCOA, Fla. - Authorities say a 23-month-old girl managed to stay afloat in an air pocket until rescue crews found her under a boat that overturned on the Indian River in central Florida. The Cocoa Po...

AUSTIN, Texas - A federal judge in Texas has blocked the Obama administration’s order that requires public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with ...

BENGHAZI, Libya - Libya’s parliament voted “no confidence” in a U.N.-backed government on Monday in a major blow to international efforts to bring unity to the deeply divided North A...

TEHRAN, Iran - Russia has stopped using an Iranian air base for launching airstrikes on Syria for the time being, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday, just hours after the Iranian defe...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey vowed Monday to fight Islamic State militants at home and to “cleanse” the group from its borders after a weekend suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding, an attack th...

BEIRUT - The suicide attacker who detonated his explosives amid an outdoor Kurdish wedding party in southeastern Turkey, killing at least 51 people, was an Islamic State group child as young as 12 yea...

BAGHDAD - An American demining firm says a British contractor was killed while defusing an explosive device in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi. The firm, Janus Global Operations, announced the death ...