Category Archives: World

WILLIAMSBURG, Mass. - The health board in a small Massachusetts town says it can’t order a resident to remove the port-a-potties flanking his driveway despite the objections of neighbours. The t...

NEW YORK - A former Fox News host has sued the network, its ousted chairman and other top executives, claiming they retaliated after she detailed unwanted sexual advances made by her onetime boss, Rog...

NEW YORK - McDonald’s is recalling millions of fitness bands that had been given away in Happy Meals because they might cause skin irritation or burns to children. The fast-food chain said last ...

WASHINGTON - Americans stepped up their purchases of new homes in July to the fastest pace in nearly nine years, the latest sign that low mortgage rates and a solid job market are helping support the ...

ALIQUIPPA, Pa. - A Pennsylvania couple is offering a $500 reward for the safe return of their missing potbellied pig, who also serves as a therapy animal. The Vietnamese potbellied pig named Charlotte...

KABUL - An American soldier was killed and another wounded by a roadside bomb on Tuesday during an operation in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, the U.S. military said. The military̵...

SAN FRANCISCO - Police are searching for a man who bit off a bartender’s finger after being kicked out of a San Francisco bar at closing time. Officer Carlos Manfredi said Monday that the suspec...

CHICAGO - A fire at a Chicago apartment building that appears to have been deliberately set killed four people Tuesday, including three children, police said. It took around 200 firefighters three hou...

ANKARA, Turkey - After a pre-dawn barrage of heavy artillery and airstrikes, Turkish tanks and special forces pushed into Syria on Wednesday in a U.S.-backed assault aiming to retake a border town fro...

BERLIN - New and more dangerous smuggling practices and attempts to reach Europe by riskier routes have led to a spike in the number of migrants dying as they attempt to cross the Mediterranean, accor...