SAN FRANCISCO (AP):A judge set bail at $6.45 million yesterday for a Northern California brain surgeon charged with sexually abusing children.Prosecutors had opposed bail for Dr James Kohut, saying...
The pastor of a fundamentalist congregation that eschews modern medicine will stand trial on a charge he should have alerted authorities when his two-year-old...
NEW YORK (AP):A subway train derailed near a station in Harlem on Tuesday, frightening passengers and resulting in minor injuries as hundreds of people were evacuated from trains along the subway line."We started...
MESETAS, Colombia (AP):Guerrillas from Colombia's largest rebel army no longer carry their guns along the road miles from the nearest city, a byway with mud so deep that even earth-moving equipment is paralysed when it rains.In recent days, each of...
United States President Donald Trump's new policy on Cuba travel has winners and losers: Group tour operators hope to sell more trips, but bed and breakfast owners in Cuba say they're losing business.Five of 12 private bed and breakfast owners in...
Pentagon: 'Active preparations' by Syria for chemical attackWASHINGTON (AP):The Pentagon said yesterday that it has detected "active preparations" by Syria for a chemical weapons attack, giving weight to a White House threat that the Syrian...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Supreme Court is letting the Trump administration mostly enforce its 90-day ban on travellers from six mostly Muslim countries, overturning lower court orders that blocked it. The action Monday is a victory for President Donald...
ISTANBUL (AP):Turkish police stopped activists for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex rights from gathering in large numbers for an LGBT Pride event in Istanbul yesterday, but smaller...
NEW YORK (AP):Matthew Howard Sr was just leaving a New York amusement park Saturday evening when he heard someone screaming.He looked up to see a young girl dangling about 25 feet (about...
WASHINGTON (AP):Making a final push, United States President Donald Trump said he doesn't think congressional Republicans are "that far off" on a health overhaul to replace "the dead carcass of Obamacare".Expressing frustration, he complained about...
LONDON (AP):The list of high-rise apartment towers in Britain that have failed fire-safety tests grew to 60, officials said yesterday, revealing the mounting challenge the government faces in the...
BAHAWALPUR (AP):Alerted by an announcement over a mosque's loudspeaker that an overturned tanker truck had sprung a leak, scores of villagers raced to the scene with fuel containers yesterday to gather...
BAHAWALPUR, Pakistan (AP) -- An overturned oil tanker burst into flames in Pakistan on Sunday, killing 153 people who had rushed to the scene of the highway accident to gather leaking fuel, a hospital official said as the death toll continued to...
UNITED STATESWEATHERFORD, Texas (AP) A Texas woman told investigators that she left her 2-year-old daughter and 16-month-old son in a hot car where they died last month to teach the girl a lesson and that they didn't lock themselves in, as she...
BEIJING (AP):More than 120 people were buried by a landslide that caused huge rocks and a mass of earth to come crashing into their homes in a mountain village in southwestern China early yesterday.The landslide, which came from a mountain, engulfed a cluster of...
BEIJING (AP): More than 120 people were buried by a landslide that caused huge rocks and a mass of earth to come crashing into their homes in a mountain village in southwestern China early Saturday, officials said. The landslide, which came from a...
BRUSSELS (AP):British Prime Minister Theresa May promised Thursday that EU citizens will not be immediately kicked out of Britain when it leaves the union and says their fate will be a top...
PITTSBURGH (AP)A juror in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial said Thursday that some jurors were concerned that prosecutors waited 10 years to charge him, expressing suspicion that politics had...
WASHINGTON (AP):President Donald Trump declared Thursday he never made and doesn't have recordings of his private conversations with ousted former FBI Director James Comey, ending a month-long guessing game that he started with a...
JERUSALEM (AP):President Donald Trump's son-in-law and chief Middle East adviser, Jared Kushner, made his first solo visit to the region yesterday, holding separate meetings with the Israeli and Palestinian...
NEW ORLEANS (AP):A boy on an Alabama beach was struck and killed yesterday by a log washed ashore by storm surge from Tropical Storm Cindy, which spun bands of severe weather ashore from the...
IRBIL (AP):The Islamic State (IS) group destroyed Mosul's al-Nuri mosque and its iconic leaning minaret known as al-Hadba when fighters detonated explosives inside the structures yesterday night, Iraq's Ministry of Defence said.The mosque also...
The state of Colorado in the United States is training teachers to carry guns in classrooms. According to a BBC report the move is to protect children and stem school massacres. The BBC says 17 persons have participated in the three-day course...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP):The Minnesota police officer who pulled over Philando Castile politely told the driver that his brake lights were out and calmly instructed him not to pull out his handgun...
BRUSSELS (AP):Belgian authorities said they foiled a "terror attack" yesterday when soldiers shot a suspect after a small explosion at a busy Brussels train station that continued a week of attacks in the capitals of Europe.Federal prosecutor Eric...
