World News

Jodie Desbiens, from Windsor, Canada, is aiming to break the world record for jigsaw puzzles completed, and she is asking for the public's help.

New Delhi - Authorities say that the headmistress of an Indian school has been serving lunches that were poisoned. Police arrested her, Wednesday.

Women in countries around the world aren’t keeping up on political issues as much as men, according to a new study. This applies even to nations seen as rating high in terms of gender equality.

Budapest - Hundreds of Hungarian anti-Semites gathered in Budapest yesterday to protest at a major international meeting for Jews set for Sunday.

Three-time world champion surfer and musician Tom Curren chatted via telephone on April 1, 2013, with Digital Journal about his new album “In Plain View,” which is expected to be released tomorrow.

Medellin, Colombia: Voted 2013's Innovative City of the Year for its implementation of sustainable innovation and a unique budgeting system.

Despite its economic problems, Spain is still the healthiest place to live in Europe, and possibly the world, according to the medical journal Lancet, with an average of 70.9 years of healthy living, and a life expectancy of 81.4 years.

The government of India has rejected a request by the pharmaceutical company Bayer AG that it desists with the manufacture of a cheaper generic version of its patented cancer drug.

As the world turned, bringing 2013 to each country, fireworks lit the sky in incredible displays. Despite austerity, many major cities represented in the video offered pyrotechnic extravaganzas. Let us hope for peace and prosperity in the new year.

Toronto - Nigel Fisher and his boots have walked through some of the most remote and dangerous places in the world, but now, visitors to the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto may catch a glimpse of them, where the long-time UNICEF humanitarian has been inducted.