Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - U.S. employers advertised more openings and hired more people in June, adding to evidence that the job market has rebounded from a brief soft patch in the spring. The number of job openin...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. - The 10-year-old boy killed during a ride on the world’s tallest waterslide was decapitated in the accident, a person familiar with the investigation said Wednesday. Authoriti...

NEW YORK - Delta fliers faced delays, cancellations and more headaches Wednesday as the Atlanta-based airline struggled with its computer systems for the third straight day. Nearly 300 flights were ca...

NEW DELHI - Authorities in Bangladesh’s capital said Wednesday that they have arrested six suspected members of a banned Islamist group blamed for recent deadly attacks, including one last month...

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - A police “shoot/don’t shoot” demonstration in Florida went shockingly awry when an officer shot and killed a 73-year-old former librarian with what police said wa...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury found California’s largest utility guilty of violating pipeline safety regulations before a deadly natural gas pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area and...

LONDON - Workers on Eurostar trains that operate across the English Channel are planning seven days of strikes over two weekends in August - a peak summer tourist time. The Rail, Maritime and Transpor...

NEW ORLEANS - It took more than seven years after Ernest Smith was gunned down outside his New Orleans home in the spring of 2006 until his widow was arrested and charged in his death, but she had bee...

NEW DELHI - A special tribunal for war crimes during Bangladesh’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971 sentenced a former lawmaker to death and seven others to life in prison on Wednesday o...

CANBERRA, Australia - A retired Australian army officer on Wednesday won a 50-year struggle to gain official recognition for the bravery of 10 soldiers who fought under his command during Australia...