THE VOICE (UK): The Metropolitan Police have launched a #GiveUpYourGun campaign, in an attempt to limit the amount of gun crime in the UK The Metropolitan Police in London, England has launched a #GiveUpYourGun campaign as part of a week-long...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP):A suicide bomber struck an entrance to Afghanistan's Supreme Court yesterday, killing at least 19 people in the latest in a series of attacks on the country's judiciary....
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP):Jovenel Moise was sworn in yesterday as Haiti's president for the next five years after a bruising two-year election cycle, inheriting a chronically struggling economy and a deeply divided society.The 48-year-old...
PANAMA PANAMA CITY (AP) -- Panamanian authorities say a 23-year-old United States tourist has been found dead on a Caribbean island.Panama's Civil Defense said the body of Catherine Johannet of New York was found Sunday on a trail in a wooded area...
CHICAGO (AP):An Australian lungfish that entranced visitors to Chicago's Shedd Aquarium for more than 80 years has been euthanised due to old age, the popular tourist attraction announced...
LONDON (AP):The Speaker of Britain's House of Commons said yesterday that he strongly opposes letting United States President Donald Trump address Parliament during a state visit to the United Kingdom.Speaker John Bercow's unusual public...
DOVER, Delaware (AP) :A woman has admitted to killing her weightlifter husband by lacing his steroid injections with antifreeze.Forty-seven-year-old Jamie Baker faces 15 years to life in...
UN: IS on defensive inconflict areas but adaptingUNITED NATIONS (AP):The Islamic State extremist group is militarily on the defensive in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria but is partially adapting by moving to covert communications and recruitment...
BUCHAREST (AP):The largest antigovernment crowds since the violent 1989 revolution that toppled dictator Nicolae Ceausescu succeeded on Sunday in pressuring Romania's new government to repeal a hastily adopted decree that...
IRVINE, California (AP):Iranian-American supermarket supervisor Alan Tahmasebi voted for Donald Trump last year, hoping a businessman would be more trustworthy than a politician.The 35-year-old now...
WASHINGTON (AP):Rebuffed in its bid for a quick reversal, the White House said on Sunday that it expected the courts to reaffirm President Donald Trump's executive power and reinstate a ban on refugees and travellers from seven predominantly Muslim...
LYON (AP):French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen blasted globalisation and Islamic fundamentalism in her closing speech on Sunday of a two-day National Front party conference,...
Look out, Lady Gaga. The pope is joining the Super Bowl frenzy.In a papal first, Pope Francis has recorded a video message that was shown to tens of thousands of fans during Sunday's Super Bowl game between...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rebuffed in its bid for a quick reversal, the White House said Sunday it expected the courts to reaffirm President Donald Trump's executive power and reinstate a ban on refugees and travellers from seven predominantly Muslim...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court denied early Sunday the Justice Department's request for an immediate reinstatement of President Donald Trump's ban on accepting certain travellers and all refugees. The Trump administration...
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Turkey's anti-terrorism police have detained over 440 people for alleged links to the Islamic State group, the state-run agency reported Sunday. The Anadolu Agency said 60 IS suspects, the vast majority of them foreigners, were...
BERLIN (AP):German researchers say they have found a Nazi-era submarine that sunk in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.The Rebikoff-Niggeler Foundation says the wreck of U-581 was found last...
WASHINGTON (AP):Declaring that religious freedom is "under threat," President Donald Trump vowed yesterday to repeal a rarely enforced IRS rule that says pastors who endorse candidates from the pulpit risk losing their tax-exempt status."I will get...
SANAA, Yemen (AP):Yemeni security officials said yesterday that warships, which they believe to be American, have been firing cannons and rockets at al-Qaida militants in the country's southern...
ATLANTA (AP):A pint-size Atlanta Falcons fan who is battling a rare form of cancer has won admirers of her own after a children's hospital posted a picture of her cheering on her favourite team...
MEXICO CITY (AP):The money sent home to Mexico by migrants living abroad rose to almost US$27 billion in 2016, the highest on record.Remittances rose 8.8 per cent, from US$24.78 billion in 2015 to 26.97 billion...
THE HAGUE (AP):The Dutch government announced yesterday it is scrapping computer software used to tally and transmit election results amid reports that the software is outdated and could easily be hacked.In a letter to Parliament, Interior Minister...
JERUSALEM (AP):Israel on Tuesday announced plans to build 3,000 new homes in West Bank settlements, pressing forward with a construction binge in the wake of the inauguration of Donald Trump as US...
NEW HOPE, Pennsylvania (AP):A grand jury has detailed a half-century of sexual abuse at a private Pennsylvania boarding school but says no charges will be filed.Bucks County District Attorney...
SEATTLE (AP):Washington and Massachusetts are becoming the first states to sue the Trump administration with filings announced this week over the executive order restricting refugees and immigration. They likely won't be standing alone for long....
