WASHINGTON (AP):An enigmatic North Korean leader takes a secretive train trip to China to affirm fraternal ties and declare a commitment to denuclearisation.It sounds like Kim Jong Un's visit this week, but his father and predecessor Kim Jong Il...
The head of Morocco's counterterrorism agency said yesterday that France should have alerted his country about the extremist behaviour of the French-Moroccan gunman who carried out a deadly supermarket attack in southern France.While French...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP):Louisiana's attorney general ruled out criminal charges yesterday against two white Baton Rouge police officers in the shooting of a black man whose death led to widespread protests nearly two years ago.Attorney General Jeff...
BEIJING (AP):The Chinese government confirmed Wednesday that North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong Un went to Beijing and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in his first known trip to a foreign country since he took power in 2011.The official...
WASHINGTON (AP):Still angry about the budget deal he signed last week, United States President Donald Trump has floated the idea of using the military's budget to pay for his long-promised border wall with Mexico, despite the fact that such spending...
A top Chinese official warned Sunday that a "trade war" would harm all sides, but gave no indication of Beijing's possible next move in a spiralling dispute with USPresident Donald Trump over steel and technology.Speaking to global business leaders...
President Donald Trump will not be adding two new lawyers to the legal team defending him in the special counsel's Russia investigation after all, one of the president's attorneys said yesterday.Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said in a statement that...
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis on Palm Sunday urged young people not to be silent and let their voices be heard, even in the face of corrupt or silent elders.The pope's message comes on the...
TOKYO (AP):Former US President Barack Obama said yesterday that negotiations with North Korea on its nuclear weapons programme are difficult, partly because the country's isolation minimises possible leverage, such as trade and travel sanctions...
NEW YORK (AP):Facebook's CEO apologised for the Cambridge Analytica scandal with ads in multiple US and British newspapers Sunday, saying the social media platform doesn't deserve to hold personal information if it can't protect it.The ads, signed...
MOSCOW (AP) — A devastating fire at a shopping centre in a Siberian city today killed 37 people and left 69 others missing, many of them children, a Russian state news agency reported. The Tass agency quoted firefighters as saying that 40 of...
BEIJING (AP) — A top Chinese official warned Sunday that a “trade war” would harm all sides but gave no indication of Beijing’s possible next move in a spiralling dispute with President Donald Trump over steel and technology...
Prosecutors in Germany say that fugitive Catalan ex-president Carles Puigdemont will appear in court tomorrow in a northern German town “to confirm the identity of the detained.” The Schleswig prosecutor’s office said in a...
UNITED STATES CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP): Lost to Chattanooga history for 112 years, a photograph of Ed Johnson was finally uncovered on the anniversary of his lynching.Joseph Malley, a Dallas-based attorney who has been researching Ed Johnson's...
VATICAN CITY (AP):Young Catholics told the Vatican yesterday that they want a more transparent and authentic church, where women play a greater leadership role and where obeying "unreachable" moral standards isn't the price of admission.In a...
LONDON (AP):Britain's information regulator said yesterday it was assessing evidence gathered from a raid on the office of data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, part of an investigation into alleged misuse of personal information by political...
WASHINGTON (AP):Summoned to action by student survivors of the Florida school shooting, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied in the nation's capital and cities across America yesterday to press for gun control and ignite...
NEW DELHI (AP)In Sydney, the Opera House has gone dark. In New Delhi, the lights have gone off at the city's great arch. In Kuala Lumpur, darkness has fallen on the Petronas Towers.Earth Hour lasts for just 60 minutes and its power is purely...
DALLAS (AP):Prosecutors say a woman who operated a church at her Dallas-area home must serve 99 years in prison for her role in the 2015 starvation death of a toddler allegedly to rid him of a "demon".The Dallas Morning News reports jurors Friday...
BEIJING (AP) — China announced a $3 billion list of U.S. goods for possible retaliation in a tariff dispute with President Donald Trump and girded Friday for a bigger battle over technology policy as financial markets sank on fears of global...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The number of people around the world in danger of dying unless they get food urgently surged to 124 million last year — mainly because “people won’t stop shooting at each other,” the head of the...
LAGOS (AP):The mother of the only Nigerian schoolgirl still in Boko Haram captivity after the extremists released 104 classmates said yesterday that her daughter was blocked from boarding the vehicle to freedom and told to convert to Islam.Fifteen-...
WASHINGTON (AP):Imagine: A pay-per-view steel-cage fight featuring Donald 'Kick His A' Trump versus Joe 'Beat the Hell Out of Him' Biden. Price to tune in? Enough to eliminate the government's deficit.The Republican president and the former...
PARIS (AP):Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy defended himself yesterday against the "mad allegations" that he accepted millions of euros in illegal campaign funding from the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi."It's an ignominious act, not (...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP):Investigators pursuing a suspected serial bomber in the Texas capital shifted their attention yesterday to a FedEx shipping centre near San Antonio where a package exploded on a conveyor belt in the middle of the night and caused...
