Category Archives: World

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Female professionals will soon be better represented in emoji form. Google says Thursday that the Unicode Consortium, which controls emoji standards, has agreed to add 11 new e...

HAVANA - Happy hour came early Thursday as 10 bartenders from six countries including Cuba, the United States and Canada vied to be crowned “king of the daiquiri” at the storied Old Havana...

DETROIT - Consumer Reports said Thursday that Tesla Motors is misleading car owners by calling its semi-autonomous driving system “Autopilot,” potentially giving them too much trust in the...

NAIROBI, Kenya - A Kenyan police officer shot dead seven colleagues, including a hostage response team member, before the standoff ended in a shootout, a police report said Thursday. The suspect, Abdi...

LONDON - He’s insulted everyone from the president of the United States to the people of Papua New Guinea. Now the remarkably undiplomatic Boris Johnson, his political career miraculously revive...

LONDON - Britain’s Prince Harry has taken a nearly instant HIV test as part of his campaign to raise awareness about the virus. The results of the simple finger-prick test were negative and Harr...

LONDON - Theresa May wanted Britain to stay in the European Union, but the government she unveiled Thursday leaves little doubt that Britain’s new prime minister intends to fulfil voters’ ...

MUNCIE, Ind. - An animal shelter is asking “Pokemon Go” players to walk an adoptable dog as they wander the streets of an eastern Indiana city doing battle with digital monsters on their s...

WASHINGTON - Conceding her outspoken criticism of Donald Trump was “ill advised,” Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg apologized Thursday in an effort to quiet mounting complaints th...

WASHINGTON - The vast majority of Americans say they are afraid of at least one of the two major candidates - Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump - winning the White House, a remarkable finding that refle...