Slovakia(AP): A court in Slovakia says four suspects in the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee will have to remain in custody.The four were arrested on Thursday and Friday and face...
(AP)Rescuers struggled Sunday to reach victims in several large coastal towns in Indonesia that were hit by an earthquake and tsunami, and authorities feared that the toll of more than 800 confirmed dead would rise.With the area largely cut off by...
(AP)Ex-Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has branded British Prime Minister Theresa May's plan for leaving the European Union (EU) "deranged", fuelling tensions as the ruling Conservative Party holds its annual conference.Johnson told the Sunday Times...
WASHINGTON (AP)Senior Trump administration officials insisted Sunday that the White House is not "micromanaging" a new FBI background check of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and that senators are dictating the parameters of the investigation....
Among the thousands of immigrants who have been coming across the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months, many are seeking to escape gang and drug violence raging in their homelands. The weapon of choice used to intimidate them? Often an American-made...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Trump administration officials today insisted that the White House is not “micromanaging” a new FBI background check of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, claiming the probe is a Senate process and...
PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Rescue officials feared the full scale of Indonesia’s earthquake and tsunami could climb far past the more than 800 already confirmed dead, as several large coastal towns today remained cut off by damaged roads...
LONDON (AP) — Ex-Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has branded British Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan for leaving the European Union “deranged,” fuelling tensions as the ruling Conservative Party holds its annual conference...
Published:Saturday | September 29, 2018 | 12:00 AM
PALU (AP):Indonesian media, citing a disaster agency spokesman, yesterday said the death toll from the Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami has jumped to 384 with the fate of "tens to hundreds" of people involved in a beach festival is unknown after the...
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook reported a major security breach in which 50 million user accounts were accessed by unknown attackers. In a blog post, the company said hackers exploited a bug that affected its “View As” feature,...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A powerful earthquake rocked the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday, triggering a five feet tall tsunami that an official said swept away houses in at least two cities. Disaster agency spokesman Sutopo...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has defrocked the Chilean priest at the centre of the global sex abuse scandal rocking his papacy, invoking his “supreme” authority to stiffen a sentence originally handed down by a Vatican court...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A passenger on a plane that crashed into a Pacific lagoon on Friday said the flight attendants were panicking and he saw water pouring through a hole in the side of the plane before he was able to escape. Local...
Published:Thursday | September 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM
UNITED NATIONS (AP):Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran yesterday of keeping a "secret atomic warehouse" just outside its capital despite the 2015 deal with world powers that was meant to keep it from obtaining nuclear weapons....
Published:Wednesday | September 26, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Waste in government spending due to inefficiencies in procurement, civil service and targeted transfers has cost Latin America and the Caribbean an estimated 4.4 per cent of the region'sgross domestic product (GDP), according to the Better Spending...
Published:Thursday | September 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP):In a defiant and emotional bid to rescue his Supreme Court nomination, Brett Kavanaugh denied allegations yesterday that he sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford when both were high school students and angrily told Congress that...
Published:Thursday | September 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP):Christine Blasey Ford declared yesterday that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her as he and a friend shared "uproarious laughter" in a locked room at a 1980s high-school gathering, recounting her allegations to the Senate...
Published:Thursday | September 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM
UNITED NATIONS (AP):Six nations made the unprecedented move on Wednesday of asking the United Nations' International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate Venezuela for possible crimes against humanity, even as President Nicolas Maduro made an...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israeli and Palestinian leaders prepared Thursday to take centre stage within an hour of each other at the U.N. General Assembly. Their speeches come a day after Donald Trump suggested for the first time as U.S....
Published:Wednesday | September 26, 2018 | 12:00 AM
UNITED NATIONS (AP):Taking centre stage at the United Nations, President Donald Trump yesterday accused China of trying to interfere in the upcoming US congressional elections because it opposes his tough trade policies. The White House provided...
Published:Wednesday | September 26, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Bill Cosby spent his first night in prison alone, in a single cell near the infirmary, as he began his three-10-year sentence for sexual assault.Corrections officials announced Wednesday that Cosby - now known as Inmate No. NN7687 - will serve his...
Published:Wednesday | September 26, 2018 | 3:11 PM
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. president may deride it, but other countries are pinning hopes on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to tackle one of today’s deepest crises: Six nations took the unprecedented move Wednesday of asking...
Published:Wednesday | September 26, 2018 | 3:07 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government estimates that 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications last winter — the disease’s highest death toll in at least four decades. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and...
Published:Wednesday | September 26, 2018 | 9:42 AM
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A publicist for the once-beloved Bill Cosby complained that his conviction and three- to 10-year prison term for sexual assault stem from a racist and sexist justice system, as the defense vowed to appeal the first...
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania (AP):His Hollywood career and good-guy image in ruins, an 81-year-old Bill Cosby was sentenced yesterday to three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, becoming the first celebrity of the #...
