NEW YORK (AP):The United States said yesterday it would target countries doing business with North Korea as UN Security Council members called for further sanctions in response to the regime's...
LONDON (AP):Prince William and his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, will soon welcome a third child to the royal nursery.Kensington Palace officials announced yesterday that the former Kate...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP): When Cambodia's main opposition leader was arrested over the weekend in a surprise police raid, one of the country's last independent media outlets rushed reporters out in the middle of night to cover the story,...
PHILADELPHIA (AP):A former Temple University student was charged on Sunday with murder following the disappearance of a current student whose remains authorities believe were those investigators found this weekend on property linked to the suspect....
WASHINGTON (AP):North Korea on Sunday claimed a "perfect success" for its most powerful nuclear test so far, a further step in the development of weapons capable of striking anywhere in the United...
HOUSTON (AP):Worshippers and relief workers yesterday paused from their chores across South Texas to seek God's favour as the area rebuilds.Hurricane Harvey hit the region with high winds on August 25 and then dumped more than four feet of rain in...
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP):The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday temporarily paused the murder trial of a white police officer accused of killing a black man as it considers a defence request to...
COLOMBO (AP):Sri Lanka's president on Sunday vowed to protect his former ambassador to six South American nations, an ex-army chief accused of crimes in the bloody final phase of the country's civil...
HOUSTON (AP):Authorities went door to door Sunday in parts of storm-battered Houston, warning that more flooding was coming, while a nearby city that lost its drinking-water system struggled to restore service and officials kept watch on a crippled...
LOS ANGELES (AP):Ash rained down across Los Angeles Sunday from a destructive wildfire that the mayor said was the largest in city history one of several blazes that sent thousands fleeing homes across the US West during a blistering holiday...
HOUSTON (AP):Harvey did not discriminate in its destruction. It raged through neighbourhoods rich and poor, black and white, upscale and working-class. Across Houston and surrounding communities, no group sidestepped its paralyzing deluges and...
BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev (AP):A man rescued from the flames at the Burning Man festival's signature burning of a towering effigy has been airlifted to a hospital.Burning Man organizers say the counterculture festival attendee broke through safety...
HOUSTON (AP) -- A city that lost its drinking water system is struggling to restore service and a crippled chemical plant that twice has been the scene of explosions remains a concern nine days after Harvey ripped across Texas. Officials in...
HOUSTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump cupped a boy's face in his hands and then gave him a high-five. He snapped on latex gloves to hand out boxed lunches of hot dogs and potato chips. And he loaded relief supplies into vehicles, patted storm...
WARRI, (AP) -- Nigeria's president says more than 100,000 people have been displaced by flooding in the central part of the country. It is not immediately known whether anyone has died in the flooding in Benue state.President Muhammadu Buhari says...
BERLIN (AP) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her centre-left rival, Martin Schulz, are preparing for their only televised debate today before the September 24 election following a campaign that so far has lacked a head-to-head showdown between...
CARACAS, (AP) -- Prominent Venezuelan opposition activist Lilian Tintori says she has been barred from leaving the country for planned meetings with leaders from France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom.Tintori posted a photo on Twitter of...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenya's president promised yesterday to "fix" the judicial system a day after the Supreme Court nullified his re-election, and he warned the chief justice and judiciary not to interfere with the electoral commission as the...
HOUSTON (AP): A Texas city that lost its drinking water system to Harvey struggled Saturday to restore service, and firefighters kept monitoring a crippled chemical plant that has twice been the scene of explosions and fires since the storm roared...
ISTANBUL (AP):Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday denounced the indictments in the United States of 19 people, among them 15 Turkish security officials, calling them "scandalous".The 19 suspects have been accused of attacking peaceful...
VATICAN CITY (AP):Pope Francis says that when he was 42 he had sessions weekly with a psychoanalyst who was female and Jewish to "clarify some things".It wasn't specified what the future pontiff wanted to explore. The revelation came in a dozen...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP):President Uhuru Kenyatta's re-election victory last month was thrown out yesterday by Kenya's Supreme Court, which ordered new voting within 60 days in a stunning decision that plunged the East African country back into political...
TEKNAF, Bangladesh (AP):Myanmar's military said yesterday that almost 400 people died in recent violence in the western state of Rakhine triggered by attacks on security forces by insurgents from the Rohingya ethnic minority.Both sides exchanged...
HOUSTON, Texas (AP):Filling fuel tanks has become increasingly difficult in parts of Texas where some stations are out of gas and pump costs have risen steeply.In Dallas, lines of cars a block long were common for the few gas stations that had...
HOUSTON (AP):Fires and two explosions rocked a flooded Houston area chemical plant early yesterday, sending up a plume that federal authorities described as "incredibly dangerous" and adding a potential new hazard to the aftermath of Harvey.The...
