Category Archives: World

BEIRUT - A small bomb exploded Wednesday on a main road near the eastern Lebanese city of Zahleh, killing at least one person and wounding 11 others, security officials and state media said. It was no...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Demolition workers in Tennessee have taken down the last building in a massive Oak Ridge uranium enrichment complex built more than 70 years ago as part of the top-secret Manhattan ...

HOWELL, N.J. - Police say a man used a sledgehammer to rescue a baby from a hot car at a New Jersey shopping centre. Police say 53-year-old Steve Eckel of Jackson and 30-year-old Sarah Mazzone of Howe...

RODANTHE, N.C. - North Carolina’s Outer Banks have been spared from a tropical storm system that has been moving toward the state for two days, an official said Wednesday. Dare County Emergency ...

LOS ANGELES - It seems Chris Brown can’t avoid trouble. Following a bizarre, hourslong standoff with police, the “Deuces” and “Look At Me Now” singer was arrested Tuesday...

PHOENIX - In a year of political outsiders, two of the most prominent and longest-serving Arizona Republicans bucked the trend and easily beat back primary challenges. Sen. John McCain defeated a popu...

KABUL - The U.S. State Department said Tuesday it is evaluating a video released by the Afghan Taliban showing a Canadian man and his American wife warning that their Afghan captors will kill them and...

TOKYO - The newly elected governor of Tokyo has postponed a plan to relocate the world’s biggest fish market, one of the city’s most famous landmarks. Gov. Yuriko Koike announced Wednesday...

CINCINNATI - Portraying a vote for her as a patriotic act, Hillary Clinton made a vigorous appeal to Republican voters Wednesday, arguing that she would best uphold American values, care for the milit...

TOKYO - Japan’s Defence Ministry is seeking a record-high 5.17 trillion yen ($51 billion) budget for the 2017 fiscal year to bolster missile defence capability amid an escalating North Korean th...