Reports are now emerging that at least four Jamaicans, are among the 12 people killed in a fire at an apartment building in the Bronx borough of New York last night. The four are members of a Spanish Town St Catherine family while a fifth member of...
After decades of hope and high promise, this was the year scientists really showed they could doctor DNA to successfully treat diseases. Gene therapies to treat cancer, and even pull off the biblical-sounding feat of helping the blind to see, were...
NEW DELHI (AP):India's powerful lower house of parliament yesterday approved a bill making the practice of instant divorce illegal and punishable with up to three years imprisonment for...
Published:Wednesday | December 27, 2017 | 12:00 AM
BEIRUT (AP):Syria's government is allowing the evacuation of nearly 30 critically ill people from a besieged Damascus suburb, where hundreds requiring medical treatment have been prevented from...
Published:Wednesday | December 27, 2017 | 12:00 AM
JERUSALEM (AP):Israel's transportation minister is pushing ahead with a plan to dig a railway tunnel under Jerusalem's Old City, passing near sites holy to Jews, Christians and Muslims and ending at the Western Wall with a station named after...
PALM BEACH, Florida (AP):United States President Donald Trump is predicting that Democrats and Republicans will "eventually come together "on a new healthcare plan for the country.Sending a...
SANAA (AP):Yemeni witnesses and security officials say a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a crowded market has killed at least 25 people, including children.They say yesterday's strike in the western...
MONROVIA (AP):Young Liberians went straight from all-night Christmas celebrations to the polls yesterday for a run-off election between a former international soccer star and the country's vice-president, who are vying to replace Africa's first...
BEIRUT (AP):Syrian rebels and opposition groups yesterday rejected Russia's proposed peace talks, accusing Moscow of failing to pressure its ally, President Bashar Assad, to end the conflict.In a...
MOSCOW (AP):Russian election officials on Monday formally barred Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny from running for president, prompting calls from him for a boycott of next year's vote.The...
Many travel brands, guidebook publishers and websites offer lists of places to go in the new year. Here's a look at some of those lists for 2018. They include destinations from every continent, cities large and small, islands, rural regions and...
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP): Investors gave a warm welcome last week to the easy victory by former President Sebastian Pinera in a presidential runoff election that is swinging Chile back to the right. Chile's IPSA stock index soared and the peso...
THE VOICE: Christmas time typically heralds festivities, frolic and feasting. For every country across the globe, there are cultural differences towards the approach to celebrating this prominent holiday. Here are some of the most interesting...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP): Guatemala's president announced on Christmas Eve that the Central American country will move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, becoming the first nation to follow the lead of US President Donald Trump in ordering the...
Pope Francis has used his traditional Christmas Day message to call for peace for Jerusalem and dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians. Acknowledging growing tensions between them, he urged a negotiated solution that would allow the peaceful co...
SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge in Seattle yesterday partially lifted a Trump administration ban on certain refugees after two groups argued that the policy prevented people from some mostly Muslim countries from reuniting with family living...
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP) — One of the deadliest storms to hit the Philippines this year blew out of the country’s south Sunday after leaving more than 120 people dead and 160 missing in landslides and flash floods. Tropical Storm...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California has published the rules that will govern its legal marijuana economy in 2018, giving businesses and consumers a glimpse into the future. But there are important steps before legal recreational sales kick off on...
WASHINGTON (AP):There's no mistaking President Donald Trump's "Merry Christmas" message - he wields it as a weapon against political correctness.For weeks, he's been liberally sprinkling his public remarks with Christmas tidings. And then pointing...
NEW DELHI (AP)An Indian court yesterday convicted a powerful regional politician a second time for embezzling state government funds as a top elected official two decades ago.Judge Shivpal Singh held Laloo Prasad Yadav, former Bihar state chief...
ZAMBOANGA, (AP):A tropical storm in the southern Philippines unleashed flash floods that swept away people and houses and set off landslides, leaving at least 75 people dead and 58 others missing, officials said yesterday.Most of the deaths from...
MOSCOW (AP):President Vladimir Putin presented his vision for modernising Russia yesterday, while some of his challengers in next March's presidential vote were formally nominated for the race.Putin is running as an independent candidate, keeping a...
NEW DELHI (AP):At least 33 people were killed yesterday after a passenger bus veered off a bridge and plunged into a river in the western Indian state of Rajasthan.Seven injured passengers were hospitalised.The speeding bus was trying to overtake...
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP): A tropical storm in the southern Philippines unleashed flash floods that swept away people and houses and set off landslides, reportedly leaving more than 120 people dead and 160 others missing, officials said Saturday. Most of the...
JERUSALEM (AP):Two Palestinians were killed in renewed clashes with Israeli forces, Gaza's health ministry said yesterday, as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged France and Europe to play a stronger role in peace efforts amid continued fallout...
