NEW YORK (AP):Fellow Republicans are joining the rising chorus of criticism of Donald Trump for his disparagement of the bereaved parents of US Army Captain Humayun Khan, a Muslim who was awarded a Bronze Star after he was killed in 2004 in Iraq.The...
Florida (AP):Florida's Governor Rick Scott was set yesterday to host a round-table discussion about the Zika virus and that state's preparedness. The meeting was to be held with community leaders in Pinellas County,...
BELGRADE (AP):Serbia protested strongly yesterday against the unveiling of a statue in Croatia honouring an extreme nationalist who was convicted of assassinating a Yugoslav ambassador to Sweden in...
LAGOS (AP):Nigeria's army gunned down 348 Shiite Muslims in an attack last year in which one soldier was killed, according to a commission of enquiry report published yesterday that calls for all involved in...
KRAKOW (AP):Pope Francis encouraged hundreds of thousands of young people at a global gathering of the faithful on Sunday to "believe in a new humanity" that is stronger than evil and refuses to see borders as...
ROUEN (AP):In a gesture of solidarity following the gruesome killing of a French priest, Muslims on Sunday attended Catholic Mass in churches and cathedrals across France and Italy.An...
TUNIS (AP):Tunisia's parliament passed a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Habib Essid on Saturday, effectively disbanding the government of the US-trained agricultural economist.The no-confidence motion was...
LOCKHART, Texas (AP):At least 16 people died in the hot air balloon crash in Central Texas, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Sunday, adding that investigators are still trying to determine the exact number of passengers and...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- The most basic of baking ingredients, flour, is at the centre of a complicated question: How did it become contaminated with bacteria normally found in animal faeces? The E. coli-tainted flour from General Mills has...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A shooting in a crowded entertainment district in downtown Austin early Sunday caused a chaotic scene, leaving one woman dead and three others wounded and police searching for a suspect. Austin Police Chief of Staff Brian...
MIAMI (AP): Mosquitoes have apparently begun spreading the Zika virus on the US mainland for the first time, Florida officials said Friday in a long-feared turn in the epidemic that is sweeping Latin America and the Caribbean. Four recently...
BERLIN (AP):Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged yesterday to do "everything humanly possible" to keep Germany safe following a string of attacks including two carried out by asylum-seekers and claimed by the Islamic...
On one of the biggest nights of the Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama evoked the words of a Republican hero former President Ronald Reagan.Obama repeatedly summoned Reagan's sense...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP):Turkey was shaking up its armed forces yesterday with another anticipated wave of officer dismissals, while the government warned allies that diplomatic relations would suffer if they did not extradite suspects in the July 15...
MOSCOW (AP):Donald Trump has refused to condemn Russia's military takeover of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, saying if elected he would consider recognising it as Russian territory, in the latest of...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP):Venezuela's socialist government is digging in its heels to stop a presidential recall vote as it fights to hold on to power amid an economic collapse.The pro-government elections board...
WASHINGTON (AP):The foundation honouring President Ronald Reagan's legacy says it "strongly opposes" the release of John Hinckley Jr from the psychiatric hospital where he's been confined for more than 35...
PHILADELPHIA (AP):Hillary Clinton's campaign is denouncing Donald Trump's call for Russia or any other foreign power to attempt to recover the Democratic presidential nominee's missing emails.Trump, in an extraordinary press conference yesterday,...
IS claims church attackSAINTE-ÈTIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France (AP):Two attackers took hostages inside a French church during morning Mass on Tuesday near the city of Rouen, killing an 86-year-old priest by slitting his throat before being shot and killed...
Rare mass killing raises questions about securityTOKYO (AP):The killing of 19 people at a home for the mentally disabled raised questions about whether Japan's reputation as one of the safest countries in the world is creating a false sense of...
PHILADELPHIA (AP):Bernie Sanders said he is "proud to stand with" Hillary Clinton, while Michelle Obama said Clinton has "the guts and grace" to be president, as Democrats strove to appear unified at their national convention in the face of a...
Published:Tuesday | July 26, 2016 | 12:00 AMThe Voice
The Voice (UK): A HIV-positive Malawian man, who bragged in documentary about being paid to have sex with children as part of initiation rites, has been arrested on the president's orders. Eric Aniva, a sex worker known in Malawi as a "...
PARIS (AP): An Italian politician is urging Pope Francis to put the slain French priest, the Rev Jacque Hamel, on a fast track for sainthood. Roberto Maroni, the president of the Lombard region, said in an appeal circulated on social media that...
WASHINGTON (AP):The FBI said yesterday it is investigating how thousands of Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails were hacked, a breach that Hillary Clinton's campaign maintains was committed by Russia to benefit Donald Trump.A statement from...
ANSBACH (AP):A Syrian man whose asylum bid had been rejected in Germany recorded a cell phone video of himself pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group before he tried to get into an...
