JERUSALEM (AP):Israel's president has apologised to Mexico for a tweet by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that appeared to endorse United States President Donald Trump's proposed...
VIENNA (AP):An Austrian newspaper reports that the owner of the house where Adolf Hitler was born is going to high court to challenge the government's right to take possession of the property.The challenge...
BOGOTA (AP):The revolution will now be televised.The life of Hugo Chavez, who mesmerised Venezuela's impoverished masses before dying of cancer in 2013, is being dramatised in a Spanish-...
FORT LAUDERDALE (AP):One by one, the suspect in the Florida airport shooting spree in which five people were killed and six wounded listened yesterday as a judge detailed each of the 22 charges against him. Then, Esteb·n Santiago pleaded not guilty....
LONDON (AP):British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says he has been assured by American officials that "all British passport holders remain welcome" in the United States, even if they are also...
CHICAGO (AP):Even in your 70s and beyond, simple activities, including web-surfing, playing bridge, and socialising can stave off mental decline, new research says.Benefits were greatest in computer users and...
US president Donald Trump has fired the acting attorney general and Democratic appointee, Sally Yates, after she refused to defend his controversial refugee and immigration ban, in court. According to Trump, Yates has betrayed the Department...
LONDON (AP): The foreign minister of Qatar says his country is against President Donald Trump's blanket banning of refugees and travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani said in...
MANILA, Philippines (AP): Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte asked the United States (US) yesterday not to store weapons in local camps under a defence pact, saying his country may get entangled if fighting erupts between China and the US....
ISTANBUL (AP):Turkey is urging Germany to reject the asylum requests of 40 former Turkish soldiers who allegedly took part in an unsuccessful coup.Turkey's Defense Minister Fikri Isik said...
SANAA (AP):A United States military service member was killed yesterday during a raid against al-Qaida militants in central Yemen that also left nearly 30 others dead, including women and children. The...
SEATTLE (AP):Individuals who were detained at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as a result of United States President Donald Trump's executive order have been released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a Port of Seattle spokeswoman...
WASHINGTON (AP):United States President Donald Trump's immigration order is getting pushback from some Republicans in Congress, even as officials from Trump's administration insist it's a small price to pay to keep the nation safe.Senator Rob...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP):Twenty-two people, mostly Chinese tourists, wore life vests and formed a human chain at sea to drift more than 10 hours before they couldbe rescued yesterday off Malaysia...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House on Sunday tried to tamp down concerns about President Donald Trump's sweeping immigration order in the face of widespread protests, as some Republicans in Congress urged him to proceed with caution in the face...
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump's immigration order sowed more chaos and outrage across the country Sunday, with travellers detained at airports, panicked families searching for relatives and protesters registering opposition to the...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top adviser to President Donald Trump says a federal judge's emergency order "really doesn't affect" his efforts to temporarily bar refugees and citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge's emergency order has temporarily barred the U.S. from deporting people from nations subject to President Donald Trump's travel ban. The judge said travellers who had been detained had a strong argument...
LANSING, Michigan (AP):A federal appeals court has found nothing heavenly about a Michigan's man claim to have a religious right to grow pot.The court last Thursday upheld an 18-month prison sentence for Brendan Barnes. In 2014, Lansing authorities...
WASHINGTON (AP):The fallout grew yesterday from President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown as United States legal permanent residents and visa-holders from seven Muslim-majority countries who had left the United States found that they could not...
WASHINGTON (AP): The fallout grew Saturday from President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown as US legal permanent residents and visa-holders from seven Muslim-majority countries who had left the United States found they could not return for...
WASHINGTON (AP):A number of senior career diplomats are leaving the State Department after the Trump administration accepted their resignations from presidentially appointed positions.The...
WASHINGTON (AP):Can women be brilliant? Little girls are not so sure.A study published yesterday in the journal Science suggests that girls as young as six can be led to believe that men are...
CAPE CANAVERAL (AP):Moonwalkers and dozens of others who took part in NASA's storied Apollo programme paid tribute yesterday to the three astronauts killed in a fire 50 years ago.On the...
BANJUL (AP):Gambia's President Adama Barrow finally returned home yesterday, solidifying his position as this country's first new commander-in-chief in two decades after a political crisis that sent the previous ruler into exile.Hundreds of people...
