GAZIANTEP (AP): With hope of finding survivors fading, stretched rescue teams in Turkey and Syria searched Wednesday for signs of life in the rubble of thousands of buildings toppled by the world’s deadliest earthquake in more than a decade. The...
AP: Here are some of the world’s deadliest earthquakes in the past 25 years: · June 22, 2022: In Afghanistan, more than 1,100 people die in magnitude 6.1 earthquake. · August 14, 2021: In Haiti, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake kills more than 2,200...
BOSTON (AP) — A proposal to let Massachusetts prisoners donate organs and bone marrow to shave time off their sentence is raising profound ethical and legal questions about putting undue pressure on inmates desperate for freedom. The bill...
Netflix has a plan to deal with rampant account sharing: a programme that lets subscribers pay extra to share their accounts with people outside their households. The streaming giant introduced paid sharing in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in Mexico said Tuesday they have arrested an anaesthesiologist they blame for an outbreak of meningitis that has killed 35 patients and sickened 79. Sonia de la Garza, the chief prosecutor in the northern...
A city bus crashed into a daycare centre north of Montreal on Wednesday, leaving two children dead and sending six to the hospital, authorities said. The bus driver was arrested and charged with homicide and careless driving. Police set up a large...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's opposition-controlled parliament on Wednesday voted to impeach the country's interior and safety minister, Lee Sang-min, holding him responsible for government failures in disaster planning and...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand police said Wednesday they found more than three tonnes of cocaine floating in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean after it was dropped there by an international drug-smuggling syndicate. While they...
GAZIANTEP, Turkey (AP) — With hope fading to find survivors, stretched rescue teams toiled Wednesday in Turkey and Syria, searching for signs of life in the rubble of thousands of buildings toppled by a catastrophic earthquake. The death...
WASHINGTON (AP): Monday was supposed to be a day of modest hope in the US-China relationship. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was going to be in Beijing, meeting with President Xi Jinping in a high-stakes bid to ease ever-rising tensions between...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Haiti’s prime minister on Monday formally appointed a transition council charged with ensuring that long-awaited general elections are held in a country with no democratically elected institutions. While many doubt the creation...
LONDON (AP): A former London police officer was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison with a minimum term of 30 years for raping and sexually assaulting a dozen women over a 17-year period. Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick, 48, admitted last...
JINDERIS (AP): Residents digging through a collapsed building in a northwest Syrian town discovered a crying infant whose mother appears to have given birth to her while buried underneath the rubble from this week’s devastating earthquake,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is using his State of the Union address Tuesday night to call on Republicans to work with him to “finish the job” of rebuilding the economy and uniting the nation as he seeks to...
SECOCHA, Peru (AP) — Residents of five small gold-mining villages in southern Peru's Arequipa region struggled Tuesday to salvage belongings after landslides caused by strong rains killed at least 12 people and dragged mud, water and...
LONDON (AP) — A senior Nigerian politician was on trial in London on Tuesday for allegedly exploiting a street trader by transporting him to the United Kingdom to donate a kidney in exchange for thousands of pounds. Ike Ekweremadu, who was...
LONDON (AP) — A former London police officer was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison with a minimum term of 30 years for raping and sexually assaulting a dozen women over a 17-year period. Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick, 48,...
NURDAG, Turkey (AP) — Search teams and emergency aid from around the world poured into Turkey and Syria on Tuesday as rescuers working in freezing temperatures dug — sometimes with their bare hands — through the remains of...
WASHINGTON (AP): US officials said on Monday that improvements ordered by President Joe Biden to strengthen defences against Chinese espionage helped to identify last week’s spy balloon – and determine that similar flights were conducted at...
ADANA (AP): A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked wide swathes of Turkey and neighbouring Syria on Monday, killing more than 2,800 people and injuring thousands more as it toppled thousands of buildings and trapped residents under mounds of...
LONDON (AP): Tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance staff walked off the job in the UK on Monday in what unions called the biggest strike in the history of the country’s public health system. The walkout is the latest in a wave of strikes that...
NAIROBI (AP): A judge in Kenya has ruled that Facebook’s parent company, Meta, can be sued in the East African country. Meta tried to have the case dropped, arguing that Kenyan courts do not have jurisdiction over their operations, but the labour...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Haiti’s prime minister on Monday formally appointed a transition council charged with ensuring that long-awaited general elections are held in a country with no democratically elected institutions. While many doubt the creation...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City, which once had the nation's strictest workplace vaccination rules for COVID-19, is ending one of its last such mandates, saying it will no longer require the shots for municipal employees including police...
LONDON (AP) — Tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance staff walked off the job in the United Kingdom on Monday in what unions called the biggest strike in the history of the country's public health system. The walkout is the latest in...
