Category Archives: World

LONDON - A British union says it is suspending a planned four-day strike by train managers on Eurostar services to hold more talks with management. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union wa...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Attorneys for the white former South Carolina officer charged with killing a black motorist argue his insurer wrongly dumped his defence before seeing what they described as an FBI en...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Silicon Valley internet mogul who sold his startup for $300 million at the age of 25 and appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” as a highly eligible bachelor was sentenced ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. - A man convicted of murder as a teenager and imprisoned 28 years ago is luxuriating by sleeping on his cousin’s living room sofa after a North Carolina judge ruled he did not g...

NEW DELHI - A stream of cars, motorcycles and pedestrians passed by an injured man struck by a delivery truck on a New Delhi street, leaving him to die, news reports said Friday. Closed-circuit TV foo...

SILVER SPRING, Md. - Additional bodies will likely be found in the debris of an apartment explosion and fire in Maryland that has already claimed three lives and injured more than 30 people, police sa...

WASHINGTON - US producer prices last month registered the biggest drop since September, pulled down by tumbling energy and food prices. The Labor Department says producer prices slid 0.4 per cent in J...

MARIETTA, Ga. - A Georgia man has been sentenced to four years in prison for setting his family’s dog house on fire in suburban Atlanta while the dog was inside. WSB-TV reports (http://2wsb.tv/2...

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Friday abruptly replaced his longtime chief of staff with a low-profile younger aide, the latest in a series of moves by the Russian leader to rid himself of membe...

HAMPTON, N.H. - An oversized rubber duck that was stolen from a New Hampshire family’s home five years ago has returned, shrouded in a cloud of mystery and global intrigue. The Portsmouth Herald...