Category Archives: World

NEW DELHI - Authorities in Bangladesh’s capital said Wednesday that they have arrested six suspected members of a banned Islamist group blamed for recent deadly attacks, including one last month...

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - A police “shoot/don’t shoot” demonstration in Florida went shockingly awry when an officer shot and killed a 73-year-old former librarian with what police said wa...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury found California’s largest utility guilty of violating pipeline safety regulations before a deadly natural gas pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area and...

LONDON - Workers on Eurostar trains that operate across the English Channel are planning seven days of strikes over two weekends in August - a peak summer tourist time. The Rail, Maritime and Transpor...

NEW ORLEANS - It took more than seven years after Ernest Smith was gunned down outside his New Orleans home in the spring of 2006 until his widow was arrested and charged in his death, but she had bee...

NEW DELHI - A special tribunal for war crimes during Bangladesh’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971 sentenced a former lawmaker to death and seven others to life in prison on Wednesday o...

CANBERRA, Australia - A retired Australian army officer on Wednesday won a 50-year struggle to gain official recognition for the bravery of 10 soldiers who fought under his command during Australia...

LONDON - Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, the sixth Duke of Westminster - a friend of Britain’s royal family and one of the country’s wealthiest landowners - has died at 64. The Grosvenor Estat...

LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. - Significant progress was made against a forest fire threatening homes in California’s San Bernardino Mountains, while up the coast firefighters sought to prevent a 107-s...

VIENNA - Two couples looking to get married have left an Austrian registry office wearing handcuffs instead of rings. State broadcaster ORF reports that the registrar in the town of Moedling, south of...