Category Archives: World

LONDON - Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, the sixth Duke of Westminster - a friend of Britain’s royal family and one of the country’s wealthiest landowners - has died at 64. The Grosvenor Estat...

LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. - Significant progress was made against a forest fire threatening homes in California’s San Bernardino Mountains, while up the coast firefighters sought to prevent a 107-s...

VIENNA - Two couples looking to get married have left an Austrian registry office wearing handcuffs instead of rings. State broadcaster ORF reports that the registrar in the town of Moedling, south of...

LISBON, Portugal - Wildfires raged unabated in Portugal on Wednesday, killing at least four people, burning down dozens of houses and sending people fleeing in panic, as well as charring huge areas of...

LOS ANGELES - The serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” was sentenced to death Wednesday for the murders of nine women and a teenage girl that went unsolved for years as the body count...

BEIJING - Growing Chinese anger at South Korea over a U.S. anti-missile defence system bodes ill for everything from pop star appearances to United Nations action against North Korea’s nuclear a...

ABINGDON, Va. - In the 2016 presidential campaign, it’s long been an article of faith: The rules of political gravity don’t apply to Donald Trump. Maybe now they do. After winning state af...

BAGHDAD - A fire ripped through a maternity ward at a Baghdad hospital overnight, killing 12 newborn babies, government officials said Wednesday, a deadly blaze that was likely caused by faulty electr...

LOS ANGELES - Two rare one-cent coins from the earliest days of the U.S. Mint have sold for a pretty penny. The copper coins, both dating to 1792, went for a combined total of $869,500 at the auction ...

BERLIN - The head of the Scottish government has reached out to Germany, the European Union’s most populous member, as she tries to keep Scotland in the bloc - and is arguing that Scotland shoul...