Category Archives: World

BANGKOK - Thais voted Sunday in a referendum on a new constitution that critics say is tailor-made for the military government to stay in control for several years and entrench a new, quasi-democratic...

RIO DE JANEIRO - The Olympics began in full with the first gold medal going to an American teenager by the fearsome name of Thrasher. And there was fear and plenty of rough riding on a punishing cycli...

FOREST FALLS, Calif. - A mother of three has provoked a backlash for having a bear shot after it repeatedly broke into her Southern California mountain home. “I haven’t regretted my decisi...

CHARLEROI, Belgium - Two female officers were attacked and wounded by a man wielding a machete and shouting “Allahu Akhbar” outside the main police station in the Belgian city of Charleroi...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Hillary Clinton doesn’t appear all that interested in making scenic stops on her state-to-state quest to become president. The Democratic nominee is instead programming her GP...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - The man who authorities say attacked accused Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof in the jail shower is out on $100,000 bond. Charleston County jail records show 26-year-old Dwayne...

CAMDEN, N.J. - Upcoming concerts will go on as scheduled at an amphitheatre where a railing collapsed during a Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa concert, injuring 42 people, promoters said Saturday. Engineer...

RIO DE JANEIRO - A bomb squad is investigating after an apparent blast shook the area near the finish line of the men’s cycling road race. Reporters could hear a loud boom on the press tribune a...

Chicago’s police superintendent on Saturday suggested that an officer’s body camera wasn’t turned on when he fatally shot a black teen last month because the officer had only receive...

TAMPA, Fla. - Thank goodness it’s the slow season in Florida. At least that’s what officials and representatives of the state’s multibillion-dollar tourism industry are thinking in t...