Category Archives: World

LONDON - Canadian travel agencies are scrambling to help passengers whose British Airways flights have been cancelled on Monday and Tuesday after a pilots strike grounded the global carrier. The ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Assembly is expected to give final consideration Wednesday to a bill that would provide new wage and benefit protections to workers at so-called gig economy compani...

OKLAHOMA CITY - T. Boone Pickens, a brash and quotable oil tycoon who grew even wealthier through corporate takeover attempts, died Wednesday. He was 91. Pickens' spokesman Jay Rosser confirmed the de...

LONDON - British lawmakers demanded Monday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government release officials' private correspondence about plans for Brexit, as the government prepared to suspend Parlia...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says his administration will propose banning thousands of flavours used in e-cigarettes amid an outbreak of breathing problems tied to vaping. State and federal hea...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea launched two projectiles toward the sea on Tuesday, South Korea's military said, hours after the North offered to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United State...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Reality television star and ex-South Carolina treasurer Thomas Ravenel has been fined $500 after taking a plea deal to charges he assaulted a former nanny. Ravenel was initially cha...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Members of Generation X may know Ral Juli for his energetic and playful role as Gomez Addams in the 1991 movie adaptation of "The Addams Family." Others may think of Juli in his cr...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A suspect stabbed at least five people at a building supply company in Florida's capital city before being taken into custody by police officers Wednesday, authorities said. The Ta...

CREMONA, Italy - An international consortium of scientists and conservationists announced Wednesday that they have succeeded in creating two embryos of the near-extinct northern white rhino, a milesto...