Category Archives: World

BELMOPAN, Belize - Earl strengthened into a hurricane Wednesday as it roared toward a nighttime landfall in the Caribbean nation of Belize, brushing by Honduras’ northern coast and leaving felle...

New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton is leaving the nation’s largest police force, after getting credit for keeping crime down but grappling with tension between officers and minori...

WASHINGTON - Mortgage giant Freddie Mac reported net income of $993 million for the second quarter, down from the same period of 2015. The company said Tuesday its income from fees received from lende...

SAN FRANCISCO - A New Jersey man is going to federal court to keep “Pokemon Go” players away from his house. Jeffrey Marder, of West Orange, says strangers began lingering outside of his h...

WASHINGTON - American consumers turned in another strong month of spending in June despite a decline in spending on autos. Consumer spending rose a solid 0.4 per cent in June after an identical increa...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Apparently unaware she could face a death sentence, a British porn actress says she flew to Iran to undergo a nose job and later wrote online about it, immediately sparki...

NEW YORK - Oprah Winfrey has a new book club pick, Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” a historical novel that imagines the network of safe houses and passages that helped...

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - A New Hampshire day care centre has been removed from “Pokemon Go” after complaining to game’s developers about strangers lurking around the property. The Portsmou...

BOSTON - The Boston Police Department has unveiled an $89,000 ice cream truck as the newest addition to its patrol fleet. The truck, adorned with balloons and Boston police decals, was introduced Mond...

GAUHATI, India - The death toll in flooding from heavy monsoon rains in India has climbed past 90, with about a million people taking shelter in government-run relief camps, officials said Tuesday. In...