SEATTLE (AP):Bill Gates says he's giving US$50 million to help fight Alzheimer's disease. The Microsoft co-founder said yesterday that the donation to the Dementia Discovery Fund is personal and...
KIRKUK (AP):Iraqi security forces have found mass graves in an area recently retaken from the Islamic State (IS) group that could contain up to 400 bodies, an Iraqi official said yesterday.The...
A new study involving nearly 20,000 cases around the United States has found that men have a gender disadvantage after sex.It found that the odds of suffering cardiac arrest during or soon after sex are very low but higher for men than women....
MANILA (AP):A day after being criticised by President Donald Trump, a former CIA director questioned whether Russian President Vladimir Putin was manipulating Trump with flattery during the president's lengthy trip to Asia.Trump's trip is meant to...
ANAHEIM, California (AP):Women are less likely than men to get CPR from a bystander and more likely to die, a new study suggests, and researchers think reluctance to touch a woman's chest might be one reason.Only 39 per cent of women suffering...
For many evangelicals, fiery Alabama politician and judge Roy Moore has been a long-time hero. Others have sometimes cringed at his heated rhetoric and bellicose style.Now, as Moore's Republican US...
KINSHASA (AP):A Congo government official says a train crash yesterday killed at least 34 people and injured 26 others in Lualaba province in the country's southeast.Lualaba Governor Richard Muyej Mangez said the toll...
CANBERRA (AP):Another Australian lawmaker announced his resignation yesterday over a constitutional ban on dual citizens sitting in Parliament, triggering a second by-election that could cost the government its fragile grip on power.John Alexander...
BONN (AP):Pope Francis has blasted "short-sighted human activity" for global warming and rising sea levels and has urged leaders at climate talks in Germany to take a global outlook as they negotiate ways to curb heat-trapping emissions.Francis met...
HANOI (AP):President Donald Trump said Russia's Vladimir Putin has once again vehemently denied interfering in the 2016 US elections during their discussions on the sidelines of an economic summit yesterday."He said he absolutely did not meddle in...
BARCELONA (AP):Thousands of people backing Catalonia's bid to secede from Spain rallied in downtown Barcelona yesterday to demand the release of jailed separatist leaders.The rally's grass-roots organiser's are calling for 10 prominent members of...
WASHINGTON (AP):Americans seeking to visit Cuba must navigate a complicated maze of travel, commerce and financial restrictions unveiled yesterday by the Trump administration, part of a new policy to further isolate the island's communist government...
RICHMOND, Virginia (AP):Democrats across America celebrated their party's first major Trump-era victories yesterday, a day after Democrats seized wins in Virginia and New Jersey that tested the power of President Donald Trump's fiery nationalism...
NEW YORK (AP):A US judge gave permission yesterday for a psychologist to examine infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman at the New York City jail where he is charged in a drug-trafficking...
LONDON (AP):Doctors treating a critically ill boy with a devastating skin disease used experimental gene therapy to create an entirely new skin for most of his body in a desperate attempt to save...
CHICAGO (AP):Former President Barack Obama, free of a job that forced him to move to Washington for eight years, showed up to a downtown Chicago courthouse for jury duty yesterday morning.The 44th president's motorcade considerably shorter than the...
WASHINGTON (AP):The Pentagon has known for at least two decades about failures to give military criminal history information to the FBI, including the type of information that the Air Force did...
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP):The gunman who carried out the massacre of 26 people at a small-town Texas church briefly escaped from a mental health centre in New Mexico in 2012 and got in trouble for bringing guns on to a military base and...
RIYADH (AP):Saudi Arabia's newly established anti-corruption committee overseeing the arrests of top princes and officials said yesterday that evidence of widespread corruption has been...
