Category Archives: World

"Saved by the Bell" star Dustin Diamond died Monday after a three-week fight with carcinoma, according to his representative. He was 44. "Dustin did not suffer. He did not have to lie submerged in pai...

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is threatening to slap new sanctions on Myanmar after a coup that saw the military arrest the civilian leaders of its government. Myanmar, also known as Burma, has bee...

NEW YORK - Terri Lyne Carrington is just 11 years old and hanging backstage at a concert hall with her friend "Ella" - that's Ella Fitzgerald to us mere mortals - and the jazz legend wants to introduc...

English teachers are deciding which books to skip. History teachers are condensing units. Science teachers are often doing without experiments entirely. With instruction time reduced as much as half b...

NEW YORK - Deborah Archer, a professor at New York University School of Law with expertise in civil rights and racial justice, has become the first Black person in the 101-year history of the American...

SILVER SPRING, Md. - American factories continued to expand in January, but at slower pace than December. The Institute for Supply Management reported Monday that its gauge of manufacturing activity f...

WASHINGTON - U.S. construction spending rose a moderate 1% in December as strength in home building offset continued weakness in nonresidential construction. The increase followed a 1.1% gain in Novem...

BERLIN - Beer sales in Germany were down 5.5% last year, dragged lower by lengthy closures of bars and restaurants in the coronavirus pandemic, official data showed Monday. German-based breweries and ...

MIAMI - Writer Carl Hiaasen is retiring from the Miami Herald after composing newspaper columns for the past 35 years, the newspaper says. The Herald published a story this week saying that Hiaasen wo...

NICOSIA, Cyprus - The abstract figures of naked women gyrating to the rhythms of a five-piece band had shocked many people almost 60 years ago as they eyed the artwork for the first time on the walls ...