Tag Archives: International

NEW YORK - Oprah Winfrey has chosen James McBride's "Deacon King Kong" for her book club. McBride's novel is set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969 and centres on the shooting of a drug dealer by a...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday, in a carefully choreographed, largely symbol...

WASHINGTON - American industry rebounded last month as factories began to reopen for the first time since being shut down by the coronavirus in Aprll. The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that industrial ...

LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Tuesday that he is merging the British government's international development department into its foreign ministry to create a "super department" in cha...

LONDON - Nothing has kept Queen Elizabeth II away from the Royal Ascot horse racing meeting during her 68-year reign as U.K. monarch - not pregnancy, a speech to Parliament or even an outbreak of foot...

LONDON - Next year's British Academy Film Awards have been postponed by two months, organizers said Tuesday. The move follows a decision by Hollywood's film academy to shift the 2021 Oscars from Febru...

NEW YORK - Padma Lakshmi's next book is designed for the children's table. The "Top Chef" host and bestselling author is working on her first picture book, "Tomatoes for Neela." Viking Children's Book...

BALTIMORE - American shoppers ramped up their spending on store purchases by a record 17.7% from April to May, delivering a dose of energy for retailers that have been reeling since the coronavirus sh...

BEIJING - China on Tuesday accused Indian forces along their Himalayan border of carrying out "provocative attacks" on its troops, leading to "serious physical conflicts" between the sides. Foreign Mi...

SRINAGAR, India - A clash high in the Himalayas between the world's two most populated countries claimed the lives of 20 Indian soldiers in a border region that the two nuclear armed neighbours have d...