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Girl found living with monkeys in forest

Published:Thursday | April 6, 2017 | 12:00 AM

LUCKNOW (AP):Indian police are reviewing reports of missing children to try to identify a girl who was found living in a forest with a group of monkeys.The girl, believed to be 10 to 12 years old, was unable...

Computer-related charges filed after 11-year-old's suicide

Published:Thursday | April 6, 2017 | 12:00 AM

MARQUETTE, Michigan (AP):Prosecutors have authorized computer-related charges against a juvenile after a Michigan mother says a social media and texting prank led her 11-year-old son to take...

Dutch court clears cyberbully's extradition to Canada

Published:Tuesday | April 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

THE HAGUE (AP):The Dutch Supreme Court yesterday approved the extradition to Canada of a convicted cyberbully who faces charges in the case of a Canadian teen who killed herself after being bullied...

White House pushes to revive health care bill

Published:Tuesday | April 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):A White House offensive to resurrect the moribund House Republican health care bill got an uneven reception yesterday from GOP moderates and conservatives, leaving prospects shaky for the party's operation to salvage one of its...

UN Security Council to discuss suspected chemical attack in Syria

Published:Tuesday | April 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

BEIRUT (AP): A suspected chemical attack in a town in Syria's rebel-held northern Idlib province killed dozens of people on Tuesday, opposition activists said, describing the attack as among the worst in the country's six-year civil war....

Blast on subway kills 11; second bomb is defused

Published:Monday | April 3, 2017 | 5:35 PM

ST. PETERSBURG (AP):A bomb blast tore through a subway train deep under Russia's second-largest city yesterday, killing 11 people and wounding more than 40 in a chaotic scene that left victims sprawled on a smoky platform. Hours later, anguish and...

Fewer missing but more dead as rivers recede

Published:Monday | April 3, 2017 | 12:00 AM

MOCOA (AP):Search teams were still digging and probing into dense piles of mud and debris whenever anyone reported hearing the sound of movement below, as rescuers yesterday refused to give up the search...

Ex-Fox chief hit with more sexual allegations

Published:Monday | April 3, 2017 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP):A Fox News contributor came forward to level more sexual-harassment allegations against deposed chief executive Roger Ailes yesterday, two days after it was revealed the network's most...

Trump donates first 3 months of salary to Park Service

Published:Monday | April 3, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):President Donald Trump is donating the first three months of his salary to the National Park Service.White House press secretary Sean Spicer handed an oversized check for US$78...

Drunk pilot sentenced to eight months in Canada jail

Published:Monday | April 3, 2017 | 12:00 AM

CALGARY, Alberta (AP): An airline pilot who was so drunk he appeared to pass out in the cockpit before takeoff was sentenced on Monday to eight months in jail in Canada. Miroslav Gronych, 37, pleaded guilty last month to having care and control of...

US ambassador says 'no love' in dealings with Russia

Published:Sunday | April 2, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):The United States ambassador to the United Nations says there's no question Russia was involved in the US presidential election and insists President Donald Trump would fully support...

Serbia's powerful PM claims landslide presidential win

Published:Sunday | April 2, 2017 | 12:00 AM

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP):Serbia's powerful Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic claimed victory Sunday in the presidential election that was a test of his authoritarian rule, an outcome that could expand...

Trump says US is ready to act alone on North Korea

Published:Sunday | April 2, 2017 | 12:00 AM

United States President Donald Trump says that the US is prepared to act alone if China does not take a tougher stand against North Korea's nuclear programme.Trump's comments in an interview with the...

Travel ban prompts training sessions for Utah refugees

Published:Sunday | April 2, 2017 | 12:00 AM

SALT LAKE CITY (AP):Salah Omar escaped war-torn Somalia around the age of five with his parents and siblings and spent a decade living in a Kenyan refugee camp. He finally found a welcoming home...

Desperation sets in as flood death toll in Colombia tops 200

Published:Sunday | April 2, 2017 | 12:00 AM

MOCOA, Colombia (AP):Townspeople desperately searched their ruined homes and the local hospital for loved ones yesterday after a torrent of water, mud and debris swept through a city in southern Colombia, causing more than 200 deaths, many of them...

Trump says US is ready to act alone on North Korea

Published:Sunday | April 2, 2017 | 12:00 AM

POTOMAC FALLS, Va. (AP) -- President Donald Trump says that the United States is prepared to act alone if China does not take a tougher stand against North Korea's nuclear program. Trump's comments in an interview with the Financial Times...

Desperation sets in as flood death toll in Colombia

Published:Sunday | April 2, 2017 | 12:00 AM

MOCOA, Colombia (AP) -- Townspeople desperately searched their ruined homes and the local hospital for loved ones Sunday after a torrent of water, mud and debris swept through a city in southern Colombia, causing more than 200 deaths, many of them...

Kim threatens to nuke US after McCain calls him fat

Published:Thursday | March 30, 2017 | 12:00 AM

North Korea is threatening to go nuclear over Senator John McCain's description of the repressive regime's rotund leader Kim Jong-un as a "crazy fat kid", calling his comments a "provocation little...

Cabinet approves new settlement, first in two decades

Published:Thursday | March 30, 2017 | 12:00 AM

JERUSALEM (AP):Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet has approved Israel's first new settlement in two decades to compensate for the court-ordered demolition of a settler outpost....

North Carolina rolls back 'bathroom bill' despite criticism

Published:Thursday | March 30, 2017 | 12:00 AM

RALEIGH, NC (AP):North Carolina rolled back its "bathroom bill" yesterday in a bid to end the yearlong backlash over transgender rights that has cost the state dearly in business projects,...

Meningitis C kills 282 in Nigeria amid shortage of vaccines

Published:Thursday | March 30, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WARRI (AP):A Nigerian official says a meningitis strain new to the West African nation has killed 282 people and infected nearly 2,000 amid a shortage of vaccines.Chikwe Ihekweazu is in charge of the...

Ex-president jailed over corruption allegations

Published:Thursday | March 30, 2017 | 4:48 PM

SEOUL (AP):South Korea's disgraced former President Park Geun-hye was arrested and jailed on Friday over high-profile corruption allegations that already ended her tumultuous four-year rule and prompted an election to find her successor.Prosecutors...

Star gymnasts testify at Congress about sex-abuse scandal

Published:Tuesday | March 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) - Retired star gymnasts testified before Congress yesterday that they were sexually abused by a former USA Gymnastics doctor and recommended a bill that requires tougher sex-abuse reporting for Olympic sports.Jamie...

UK attacker's wife 'saddened and shocked'; security added

Published:Tuesday | March 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):The wife of the man who killed four people outside Britain's Parliament last week condemned the attack yesterday, saying she is "saddened and shocked"."I express my condolences to...

May vows Brexit deal for all in UK, including EU nationals

Published:Tuesday | March 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):Prime Minister Theresa May says she will enter European Union (EU) exit talks representing everyone in Britain - including millions of EU nationals living in the UK.May plans to ask the EU for a divorce...

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