MIAMI BEACH, Florida (AP):Subtropical Storm Alberto's gusty rain and brisk winds roiled the seas off the US Gulf Coast yesterday, keeping white sandy beaches emptied of their usual Memorial Day crowds.Forecasters warned of life-threatening surf...
A United States team was in North Korea to plan a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to President Donald Trump, raising expectations that the on-off-on meeting would indeed take place.Both the State Department and South Korea's...
The National Hurricane Center says Subtropical Storm Alberto has come ashore on the Florida Panhandle. The Miami-based center said in a 5 p.m. EDT advisory that Alberto’s core made landfall Monday at Laguna Beach, Florida, about 15 miles or...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has proposed banning plastic products like cotton buds, straws, stirs and balloon sticks when alternatives are easily available in an attempt to reduce litter spoiling beaches and ocean beds. The European...
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP): Subtropical Storm Alberto was headed toward anticipated landfall sometime Monday on the northern Gulf Coast, where white sandy beaches emptied of their usual Memorial Day crowds. And just as the long holiday weekend...
HONOLULU (AP):A lava flow in Hawaii has entered the property of a geothermal power plant on the Big Island.The Hawaii Volcano Observatory announced the development on Sunday morning. It gave no details as to how deep into the Puna Geothermal Venture...
WASHINGTON (AP):President Donald Trump has warned Congress that he will never sign another foot-tall, US$1 trillion-plus government-wide spending bill like the one he did in March. His message to lawmakers in both parties: Get your act together...
ST PETERSBURG, Florida (AP):Beaches in Florida were largely empty ahead of Memorial Day as a slowly intensifying storm carrying brisk winds and heavy rain approached the US Gulf Coast on yesterday.The storm disrupted plans from Pensacola in the...
BOGOTA (AP):Early results in Colombia's presidential election show conservative former Senator Ivan Duque leading the race, with two candidates fighting neck and neck for second and a place in what's likely to be a June run-off.With 60 per cent of...
WARSAW (AP):A group of parents who occupied part of the Polish parliament with their disabled children abandoned their protest of state assistance payments Sunday after more than a month.One of the mothers, Iwona Hartwich, said the demonstrators...
Forecasters say Subtropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the 2018 hurricane season, has recently turned more north-northwestward with no change in strength as it lumbers toward the northern Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center in...
DUBLIN (AP) — Irish Catholics attending Mass today were disappointed with the result of a referendum in which voters opted to legalise abortion and think it reflects the weakening of the Church — a situation that was unthinkable in...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Normally packed with vacationers over the Memorial Day weekend, beaches along the eastern U.S. Gulf Coast were largely empty today as a slowly intensifying storm carrying brisk winds and heavy rain approached....
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Another person has died in Congo of a confirmed case of Ebola, bringing the number of fatalities to 12, said the country’s health ministry. The new death happened in Iboko, a rural area in northwestern Equateur...
DUBLIN (AP):The prime minister of Ireland says that the passage of a referendum paving the way for legalised abortions is a historic day for his country and a great act of democracy.Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said, after official results showed...
WASHINGTON (AP):From 'Little Rocket Man' to the scheduling of a historic peace summit and back again, President Donald Trump's dizzying back-and-forth on North Korea is par for the course for a president who likes to keep his audience guessing. As...
SALALAH, (AP):A cyclone more powerful than any previously recorded in southern Oman slammed into the Gulf country and neighbouring Yemen yesterday, deluging a major city with nearly three years' worth of rainfall in single day. The storm killed at...
KINSHASA, (AP):Ebola vaccinations will begin tomorrow in the two rural areas of Congo where the latest deadly outbreak was declared this month, the health ministry said yesterday, as the number of confirmed Ebola cases rose to 35, including 10...
ST PETERSBURG, (AP):Florida and Mississippi launched emergency preparations yesterday ahead of the arrival of Subtropical Storm Alberto, a slow-moving system expected to cause wet misery across the eastern US Gulf Coast today into tomorrow.Cuba was...
TORONTO (AP) — Investigators were seeking two suspects Friday after an explosion caused by a homemade bomb ripped through an Indian restaurant at a mall in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga, wounding 15 people, Canadian police said. Police...
The Cuban Health Ministry says the toll from the crash of a passenger jet in Cuba has risen to 112 after another survivor of the catastrophe died. A ministry statement says Emiley Sanchez de la O succumbed to her extensive injuries early...
MIAMI (AP) - The first named tropical weather system of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season has formed. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center says a disturbance moving toward the Gulf of Mexico is now Subtropical Storm Alberto. Alberto had...
NEW YORK (AP) — Flinching when he heard himself described as a man who used power to prey on women, Harvey Weinstein was arraigned Friday on charges of rape and a criminal sex act in the first criminal prosecution to result from the wave of...
U.S. government forecasters said Thursday that they were expecting an active Atlantic hurricane season. The six-month Atlantic hurricane season officially starts June 1. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast calls for 10 to...
BUNNIK, Netherlands (AP) — The missile used to shoot down a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 aboard, belonged to a Russia-based military unit, an international team of investigators said Thursday...
