The Vatican is confirming that Pope Francis has ordered an investigation into alleged financial and other irregularities in the diocese of one of his top advisers, Honduran Cardinal Oscar...
DAKAR (AP):The United Nations (UN) mission in Congo says that another peacekeeper has died after being wounded in the deadliest single attack on a UN peacekeeping mission in almost 25 years.The...
MOSCOW (AP):Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday accused the US of violating a landmark Cold War-era nuclear arms pact and harbouring aggressive intentions, and pledged to fend off any...
UNITED NATIONS (AP):US Ambassador Nikki Haley is threatening the 193 United Nations (UN) member states and the United Nations with funding cuts if the UN General Assembly approves a resolution calling President Donald Trump's recognition of...
SYDNEY (AP):Australian police say that the driver of a vehicle that rammed into pedestrians in Melbourne is an Australian citizen of Afghan decent who has a known history of drug use and mental health issues.Police said at a news conference late...
MOSUL (AP):The price Mosul's residents paid in blood to see their city freed was 9,000 to 11,000 dead, a civilian casualty rate nearly 10 times higher than what has been previously reported. The number killed in the nine-month battle to liberate the...
INFANTA, (AP):A Philippine inter-island ferry with more than 250 passengers and crew, including Christmas holiday travellers, sank yesterday after being battered by fierce winds and big waves off the country's...
NEW YORK (AP):A New York City man who says he has a fear of the Tasmanian Devil claims his father-in-law repeatedly scared him with a toupee that looks like the cartoon character.The New York Post...
SEOUL (AP):A fire broke out yesterday at an eight-storey building in the central South Korean city of Jecheon, killing 28 people and injuring 26 others.Late yesterday, a fire department official said the toll could rise as rescuers continued to...
PARIS (AP)A tainted baby milk scandal affecting some 30 countries is growing, as French dairy giant Lactalis recalled millions more products globally because of fears of salmonella contamination.Pharmacies and supermarkets pulled cans and bottles of...
BETHLEHEM (AP):President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital looms large in Christmas festivities this year in the traditional birthplace of Jesus.Some food vendors, sellers of holiday trinkets and a leading hotelier in...
NEW YORK (AP):The wave of sexual misconduct allegations that toppled Hollywood power brokers, politicians, media icons and many others was the top news story of 2017, according to The Associated Press' annual poll of US editors and news directors....
WICHITA, Kansas (AP):Several churches in Kansas in the United States are trying to meet the needs of people struggling emotionally this holiday season by offering 'Blue Christmas' worship services.Blue...
Jamaica is among 35 countries that abstained from the vote at the UN General Assembly on Thursday on a non-binding resolution declaring as "null and void", President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
GENEVA (AP): The Swiss division of J.P. Morgan "seriously breached" anti-money laundering rules relating to the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, Switzerland's financial market regulator said Thursday. The agency, FINMA, said the...
Published:Wednesday | December 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
LEAD, South Dakota, (AP):For five decades, the Sternhagen family, led by patriarch Jim Sternhagen, have scouted, sawed, and celebrated their annual Christmas tree find by donating the mostly large-scale, towering specimen to the Shepherd of the...
Published:Wednesday | December 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
MOSCOW (AP):President Vladimir Putin says Russian security agencies have thwarted 60 terror attacks in the country this year.Russia marked its Day of Employees of State Security Agencies on Wednesday. Speaking to intelligence officers on their...
Published:Wednesday | December 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
VATICAN CITY (AP):Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failure to stop child molesters in the priesthood triggered the worst crisis in American Catholicism...
Published:Wednesday | December 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
SAO PAULO (AP):A former mayor and governor of Sao Paulo state has turned himself in to Brazilian police to begin serving a nearly eight-year sentence for money laundering.Paulo Maluf surrendered yesterday...
Published:Wednesday | December 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
CANCUN, Mexico (AP):Eight Americans, two Swedes and one Canadian were among the fatalities of a bus crash in eastern Mexico, state officials said yesterday.The Quintana Roo state government said in a...
Published:Wednesday | December 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
BARCELONA, Spain (AP): Ride-hailing service Uber suffered a new blow Wednesday as the European Union's top court ruled that it should be regulated like a taxi company and not a technology service, a decision that crimps its activities around...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP):The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Shiite rebels said it intercepted a missile fired over southern Riyadh yesterday, which the rebels said was targeting a "top...
ROME (AP):Rome's official Christmas tree is shedding needles so quickly that it has become a jolly joke for city residents.The 21-meter- (70-foot-) high tree, which was lit up on December 8, started dropping needles at a fast clip as soon as it was...
TEGUCIGALPA (AP):Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez called on the country's leaders yesterday to accept his disputed re-election and bring peace to the divided country, even as his challenger said...
SAO PAULO (AP):One of the most prominent people convicted in Latin America's largest corruption scandal left prison yesterday for house arrest after serving two-and-a-half years behind bars at a time when many Brazilians are becoming disillusioned...
