Category Archives: World

PARIS - France’s top court has ruled that banning burkini swimsuits violates people’s fundamental rights, setting a legal precedent after a swimsuit crackdown that elicited shock and anger...

DETROIT - The U.S. is seeking to forcibly limit how fast trucks, buses and other large vehicles can travel on the nation’s highways. A new proposal Friday would impose a nationwide limit by elec...

WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration wants all U.S. blood centres to start screening for Zika, a major expansion intended to protect the nation’s blood supply from the mosquito-borne vi...

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Friday that the case for raising interest rates has strengthened in light of a solid job market and an improved outlook for the U.S. economy and in...

SANT’ANGELO, Italy - Rustic yet refined, the two-story villa at the foothills of the Apennines is a family treasure, embracing five centuries of the Celli family’s noble history, memories ...

DARAYA, Syria - Escorted by armed troops, dozens of insurgents and their families left this war-wrecked suburb of the Syrian capital on Friday as part of a forced evacuation deal struck with the gover...

BERLIN - A poll in Germany suggests that a large majority favours at least a partial ban on the face-covering veils used by some Muslim women. Security officials from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The killing this week of a 10-year-old Albuquerque girl who was drugged, raped and dismembered is just the latest horrific child slaying case for New Mexico, which has the nation&#...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy expanded at a sluggish 1.1 per cent pace this spring as businesses sharply reduced their stockpiles of goods and spent less on new buildings and equipment. Yet most analy...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Lotte Group’s vice chairman has been found dead as authorities widen a probe into corruption at South Korea’s fifth-largest business group, officials at the com...