Militants sell, destroy artifacts
BAGHDAD — For more than 5,000 years, numerous civilizations have left their mark on upper Mesopotamia — from Assyrians and Akkadians to ...
EDINBURGH, Scotland — Scottish voters have resoundingly rejected independence, deciding to remain part of the United Kingdom after a historic referendum that shook the c...
TORONTO — Doctors say Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will undergo 40 days of chemotherapy to treat a rare and difficult-to-beat cancer that forced him to drop his bid for re-ele...
AMSTERDAM — Hundreds of young Dutch men and women turned Amsterdam’s central Dam square into a blizzard of red goop Sunday as they pelted each other with tomatoes.
In th...
REDIPUGLIA, Italy — Pope Francis urged the world Saturday to shed its apathy in the face of what he characterizes as a third world war, intoning “war is madness” at the ...
PRETORIA, South Africa — A South African judge today found Oscar Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide in the shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and declared h...
MANILA, Philippines — In Asia’s bastion of Roman Catholic faith, images of Pope Francis are getting the pop star treatment.
A church-run radio station in the Philippines...
French women less likely to do it
PARIS — France’s summer is fast becoming a memory, and so is one of its iconic beach sights: the topless woman.
As few as 2 percent of ...
U.S. also seeks Arab backing
NEWPORT, Wales — The U.S. and nine allies agreed Friday that the Islamic State group is a significant threat to NATO countries and that they ...
Pilot, wife incapacitated
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Mystery shrouds the crash of a private plane carrying a prominent upstate New York couple who were taken on a ghostly 1,700-...
