Category Archives: World

NEW ORLEANS - Amid the craze over virtual characters in the smartphone-based “Pokemon Go” game, a Pokemon that people can touch in the physical world has mysteriously appeared in New Orlea...

ROME - Italy’s defence minister says her government is ready to “positively evaluate” any request for air base or airspace use in the U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State militants ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe police on Wednesday fired tear gas and water cannons to break up anti-government protests in the capital, Harare, as frustrations grow over a rapidly deteriorating economy....

BUFFALO, N.Y. - A prankster’s changes to the message on an electronic roadside sign in Buffalo may be causing motorists to smile, but New York State Police aren’t amused. WIVB-TV reports (...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The Latest on the crash-landing of an Emirates airliner in Dubai (all times local): 10:15 p.m. Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, is mourning the...

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Nepal’s parliament has elected a former communist rebel leader as the country’s new prime minister. Parliament speaker Onsari Gharti Magar announced that Maoist party le...

SAN DIEGO - In stories July 29 to Aug. 3 about a San Diego police shooting, The Associated Press, relying on information from the San Diego Police Department, misspelled the last name of a slain offic...

BARNESVILLE, Ga. - A homeless teenager says a decision regarding $184,000 in donations raised for him through a GoFundMe.com account has been made. Fred Barley said on his Facebook page Monday that hi...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - All 300 people aboard an Emirates airliner survived a crash landing in Dubai on Wednesday, scrambling down emergency slides before flames consumed the plane in an acciden...

ATWATER, Calif. - A husband and wife travelling from Mexico to see their daughter in Washington were among the four identified Wednesday as those killed when a bus slammed into a highway sign that tor...