Category Archives: World

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - FBI agents carried materials in bankers' boxes and grocery bags out of the Illinois Capitol building on Tuesday, and multiple media outlets reported that and other raids were linke...

NEW YORK - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged the United States on Thursday to "cease this policy of maximum pressure" in favour of "dialogue, and logic and reason." Rouhani's comments came one da...

LONDON - Britain's biggest repatriation effort since World War II ramped up Tuesday as questions swirled over the pay that Thomas Cook executives received in the run-up to the tour operator's collapse...

LONDON - Prince Andrew and his former wife Sarah Ferguson have announced the engagement of their elder daughter, Princess Beatrice. They said Thursday that Beatrice is engaged to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi...

PARIS - Model and singer Pixie Geldof and Louis Vuitton designer Nicolas Ghesquiere watched from Grand Palais' front row Thursday morning in Paris as Chloe put on a spring manifesto in wearable chic. ...

WASHINGTON - More Americans signed contracts to buy homes in August, signalling that low mortgage rates may spark a sustained turnaround for the housing market. The National Association of Realtors sa...

KABUL - A presidential election that is days away in Afghanistan threatens the troubled nation's best chance of making peace with the Taliban and ending 18 years of war, former President Hamid Karzai ...

SAN FRANCISCO - With the Metropolitan Opera's bombshell announcement that Plcido Domingo will not take the Met stage this week - and possibly ever again - the legendary singer's only scheduled U.S. ap...

WASHINGTON - A secret whistleblower complaint at the centre of an impeachment inquiry alleges that President Donald Trump abused the power of his office to "solicit interference from a foreign country...

MIRPUR, Pakistan - A powerful 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck northeast Pakistan on Tuesday, badly damaging scores of homes and shops and killing at least 22 people and injuring over 700, officials sa...