NEW YORK (AP):The executive producer of the CBS news show 60 Minutes is delaying his return from vacation until an investigation into sexual misconduct claims at the network wraps up.Allegations against the executive producer, Jeff Fager, and CBS...
BERLIN (AP):A vintage propeller plane plunged near-vertically into a Swiss mountain, killing all 20 people on board as they returned from a two-day trip to southern Switzerland, investigators said Sunday.The Junkers Ju-52 plane, operated by small...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP):Opposition leaders in Venezuela warn that the government might use an apparent assassination attempt against President Nicolas Maduro as an excuse to crack down on those who legitimately oppose his policies.Maduro was...
BRIDGEWATER, NJ(AP)President Donald Trump on Sunday acknowledged that the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Kremlin-connected lawyer and his son was to collect information about his political opponent, casting new light on a moment central to the...
At least 37 people have died after a powerful earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Lombok, the BBC reported Indonesian officials as saying.The 7.0 magnitude quake damaged buildings and triggered power cuts.More than 50 people were also injured....
Six people have been arrested in Venezuela for involvement in an apparent assassination attempt on President Nicolás Maduro, the interior minister says.The BBC reported that Nestor Reverol said they were part of a group that loaded two drones with...
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) Ahead of campaigning in Ohio yesterday, President Donald Trump unleashed a withering attack on the state's favourite son, savaging LeBron James in a late-night tweet that derided the intelligence of one of the...
BRAZILSAO PAULO (AP) -- The Workers' Party in Brazil yesterday named jailed former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as its nominee for the country's top job.Delegates of the left-leaning party confirmed da Silva, who served two terms as Brazil's...
Tel Aviv (AP):Tens of thousands of members of Israel's Druze minority and their Jewish supporters, some chanting "equality", packed a central Tel Aviv square yesterday to rally against a contentious new law that critics say sidelines Israel's non-...
(AP):Police in central Switzerland say a small plane crashed in a forest, killing several people yesterday morning.According to the police, the aircraft went down near the town of Hergiswil, which is 65 miles (105 kilometres) south of Zurich. They...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP):Twin wildfires fuelled by dry vegetation and hot, windy weather continued to grow in Northern California, destroying 55 homes and forcing thousands of residents to flee their neighbourhoods.California fire officials said yesterday...
MEXICO CITY (AP):Hurricane Hector roared as a major Category Three storm over the Pacific Ocean yesterday morning, but was far from land.The United States National Hurricane Center said Hector was expected to remain powerful through early this week...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s civil aviation chief said Tuesday he has resigned to take responsibility after an independent investigative report highlighted shortcomings in the air traffic control centre during Malaysia...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s election took an uneasy turn Tuesday when the opposition alleged results were not posted outside one-fifth of polling stations as required by law, and the electoral commission said the impatient nation...
Eight states are filing suit against the Trump administration over its decision to allow a Texas company to publish downloadable blueprints for a 3D-printed gun, contending the hard-to-trace plastic weapons are a boon to terrorists and criminals...
BERLIN (AP) — The heatwave gripping large stretches of Europe has already been blamed for deadly forest fires and crop failures. Now freshwater fish could be its next victims. Some regions in Germany sweltered as the mercury hit 39 degrees...
REDDING, Calif. (AP) — About 10,000 more people were ordered evacuated as two wildfires surged toward small lake towns in Northern California while the state’s largest and deadliest blaze of the year slowed slightly after days of...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday accepted the resignation of an Australian archbishop convicted in criminal court of covering up the sexual abuse of children by a priest, taking action after coming under mounting pressure from...
BRIDGEWATER, NJPresident Donald Trump said Sunday that he would consider shutting down the government if Democrats refuse to vote for his immigration proposals, including a US-Mexico border wall.Republicans, trying to protect their majority in...
MATI (AP):Fire officials in Greece raised the death toll from a wildfire that raged through a coastal area east of Athens to 91 and reported that 25 people were missing Sunday, six days after Europe's deadliest forest fire in more than a century....
JAKARTA (AP):A strong and shallow earthquake early Sunday killed at least 14 people and injured more than 160 on Indonesia's Lombok island, a popular tourist destination next to Bali, officials said.The quake damaged more than 1,000 houses and was...
MADRID (AP)Spain's maritime rescue service says it has saved 123 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa.The service says it pulled the migrants from 12 different boats intercepted by rescue craft Sunday morning in the...
REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of dazed evacuees struggled to keep their emotions in check while trying to take care of themselves and their pets as a deadly wildfire in Northern California raged into its fourth day.Anna Noland, 49, was evacuated...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — In a surprise address to the nation after months of silence, Zimbabwe’s former leader Robert Mugabe emerged just hours before Monday’s historic election declaring that “I will not vote for those who have illegally taken power...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong and shallow earthquake early today killed at least 14 people and injured more than 160 on Indonesia’s Lombok island, a popular tourist destination next to Bali, officials said.The quake damaged more than 1,000...
