Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Orders to U.S. factories increased in July by the largest amount in nine months, propelled by a big jump in demand for commercial aircraft. The key category that tracks business investmen...

Dwyane Wade has lashed out against Chicago’s gun laws, calling them weak and saying he’s urged officials in his hometown to enact changes to make the city safer. The Chicago Bulls star, wh...

NEW YORK - Yum Brands says it will sell a stake in its China unit, which the parent company of KFC and Pizza Hut is spinning off later this year. The company said Friday that it struck deals to sell s...

MIAMI - A day care worker at a private charter school in Miami Beach has been arrested after officers reviewed video surveillance footage that appears to show her slapping, elbowing and twisting the a...

ATLANTA - Donald Trump will visit a predominantly black church in Detroit this weekend and, his campaign says, “outline policies that will impact minorities and the disenfranchised in our countr...

HILO, Hawaii - Tourists in Hawaii who had been planning an escape to a sunny island paradise were instead hit with the threat of back-to-back hurricanes, but they’re making the best of their vac...

MOSCOW - Russian news agencies are citing the government of Uzbekistan as saying that President Islam Karimov has died, ending days of rumours about the condition of the 78-year-old hardliner who led ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Northwestern Pakistan was struck by two separate militant attacks hours apart on Friday that left at least 13 people dead. Gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed a Christian colony ...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Samsung recalled its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones on Friday after finding some of their batteries exploded or caught fire. Samsung’s Note 7s are being pulled from shelve...

INDIANAPOLIS - Subway’s former pitchman imprisoned for child pornography and sex abuse argued in a Thursday court filing that the parents of one of his female victims are to blame for what he de...