Category Archives: World

BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - The pilot who died after ejecting from a U2 spy plane that crashed in northern California was identified Wednesday as Lt. Col. Ira S. Eadie. Eadie was assigned to the 1s...

HANOI, Vietnam - A court in northern Vietnam on Wednesday sentenced nine people to death for heroin trafficking, state media said. Ringleader Trang A Tang and eight other Vietnamese nationals were con...

JOHANNESBURG - South African police on Wednesday set off stun grenades and threw tear gas at stone-throwing students from a leading university who were demonstrating for free education. The chaos in t...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Hundreds of national wildlife refuges that provide critical habitat for migratory birds and other species are crippled by a staffing shortage that has curtailed educational programs, ...

KAMPALA, Uganda - A Ugandan wildlife official says scores of animals have died in a national park because of drought. Jossy Muhangi, a spokesman for the Uganda Wildlife Authority, said Wednesday that ...

LAHORE, Pakistan - Pakistani police say they have arrested a 16-year-old Christian boy on blasphemy charges after he “liked” an “inappropriate” photograph on Facebook of the Ka...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Samsung Electronics said Wednesday it has received three reports of Galaxy Note 7 battery fires in China and investigated two of them. Samsung and its battery supplier, Amp...

BRADFORD, Maine - A missing 18-month-old boy was returned to his family after a game warden found the toddler sleeping along the side of a road in Maine. Game Warden Jim Fahey came upon the unidentifi...

ANKARA, Turkey - An attacker armed with a knife tried to enter the Israeli Embassy in Turkey on Wednesday before being shot and slightly wounded by Turkish security officials, Turkish and Israeli offi...

GARY, Ind. - Donald Trump swooped into Gary, Indiana, on his private jet and pledged to make the down-on-its-luck city great again. It was 1993, and the New York mogul was wooing officials in the most...