Tag Archives: International

SILVER SPRING, Md. - Sales of existing homes rose 2.4% in August to its highest level since 2006 as the housing market recovers from a widespread shutdown in the spring brought on by the coronavirus o...

LOS ANGELES - Jennifer Aniston missed out on an Emmy but proved herself as an award-worthy first responder when a ceremony stunt got overheated. In a bit during Sunday night's Emmys, host Jimmy Kimmel...

NEW YORK - The novelty of television stars getting Emmy Awards delivered to their homes wasn't enough to keep the annual show from slipping further in popularity. The Nielsen company said 6.1 million ...

WASHINGTON - Law enforcement officials arrested 179 people and seized more than $6.5 million in a worldwide crackdown on opioid trafficking on the darknet, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday. Th...

MORGANTON, N.C. - A group of mountain bikers on a North Carolina trail spotted a dog trapped 30 feet (9 metres) down in a sinkhole - and it took a salty snack and some straps to lift him to safety. Th...

COPENHAGEN - The award ceremony for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, traditionally held at the Oslo city hall on Dec. 10, will instead be held in scaled-down form at the city's university because of the co...

KABUL - A group of young Afghans - both women and men - is coming together in the country's war-torn capital to practice a mystical Sufi Islamic dance. The group's founder says she sees their whirling...

BEIJING - The former chairman of a state-owned real estate company who publicly criticized President Xi Jinping's handling of the coronavirus pandemic was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Tuesday on...

SALT LAKE CITY - A 13-year-old Utah boy with autism was shot by police after his mother asked for help getting him hospital mental-health treatment and officers agreed to talk with him, police footage...

MCCOMB, Miss. - A woman in Mississippi received a slithering surprise when she got home from work last week: a snake that had been lodged on top of her front door landed on her head. The encounter hap...