Archive by category World

LONDON (AP) ― English clarinet player Acker Bilk, who beat the Beatles and other British rockers to the top of the U.S. music charts with the instrumental …

MOSCOW (AFP) ― Swept along by the excitement as the Berlin Wall was torn down, former top Soviet officials now say, 25 years on, they feel stabbed in the …

TOKYO (AFP) ― Hello Kitty, Japan’s global icon of cute, marked her 40th anniversary on Saturday with a human-size version of the feline character regaling …

JERUSALEM (AFP) ― Fourteen-year-old Hisham, who was born around the start of the second Palestinian intifada, dreams of a new uprising so he can play his …

KOLKATA (AFP) ― Suspected of being a spy or a China sympathizer, nine-year-old Indian-born Monica Liu and her family were loaded into railway cars for a …

Law enforcement officers take a closer look at the wreckage near the site where a Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket, SpaceShipTwo, exploded and crashed in …

WASHINGTON (AP) ― President Barack Obama and Republicans offered clashing views about America’s trajectory in the final weekend before an election in which …

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Apple Pay, meant to inject momentum into a fragmented market for the emerging mobile payments sector, has instead highlighted the …

OUAGADOUGOU (AFP) ― Burkina Faso’s opposition and civil society leaders warned Saturday against a military takeover and called a mass rally after the army …

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) ― Nigeria’s kidnapped schoolgirls have all been converted to Islam and married off, the leader of Nigeria’s Islamic extremists …