HONG KONG (AP): The pound slumped to its lowest in more than three decades on Friday as results on Britain's referendum on European Union membership showed that the "leave" side had won. Uncertainty over the vote results had sent the...
LONDON (AP): The Bank of England says it's ready to take "all necessary steps" to help keep Britain stable after voters chose to leave the 28-nation European Union. The results of the vote Thursday have shaken global markets and...
LONDON (AP): Britons have voted to leave the European Union, their concerns about immigration and what some saw as the ever-increasing power of the 28-member bloc trumping the attraction of being part of a single market of more than 500 million...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP): World financial markets were rocked Friday by Britain's vote to leave the European Union, with stock markets and oil prices crashing and the pound hitting its lowest level in three decades. The uncharted, unexpected...
WASHINGTON (AP):The Organization of American States is meeting to discuss what the secretary general calls serious abuses of democracy in Venezuela as international pressure mounts on the socialist country amid a deepening political and economic...
BALTIMORE (AP):A judge found a Baltimore Police van driver not guilty of all charges in the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, whose broken neck in police custody set off Baltimore's worst riots in decades.Six officers were charged in Gray's death,...
BEIJING (AP):A powerful tornado and hailstorm struck the outskirts of an eastern Chinese city yesterday, killing at least 78 people and destroying buildings, smashing trees and flipping vehicles on their roofs.The tornado hit a densely populated...
WASHINGTON (AP):The Supreme Court deadlocked yesterday on President Barack Obama's immigration plan that sought to shield millions living in the United States (US) illegally from deportation and granted them work permits, effectively killing the...
Dozens of Conservative lawmakers who called for Britain to leave the European Union have signed a letter saying Prime Minister David Cameron should stay in office whichever side wins the membership referendum. The letter signed by 84 legislators...
WASHINGTON (AP): A tie vote by the Supreme Court is blocking President Barack Obama's immigration plan that sought to shield millions living in the US illegally from deportation. The justices' one-sentence opinion on Thursday effectively...
BERLIN (AP): German media report that officials say a suspect in an incident at a movie theater in the southwest of the country is dead. The dpa news agency reported that Interior Minister Peter Beuth said in the Hesse state legislature in...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the European Union EU should respond in a calm and inclusive way to whatever result emerges from the British referendum on EU membership. Merkel said after meeting her Austrian counterpart in Berlin today that...
LONDON (AP):Campaigners on both sides of the crucial vote over whether Britain should remain in the European Union criss-crossed the country yesterday, their last day to win support from the undecided.Prime Minister David Cameron outlined his vision...
WASHINGTON (AP):Rebellious Democrats disrupted the House's legislative work yesterday, staging a sit-in on the House floor and refusing to leave until they secured a vote on gun-control measures. Exasperated...
Lightning kills at least 85 personsPATNA (AP):Lightning has killed 74 persons, mostly farm labourers working in fields, acrosseastern and northern India over the past 24 hours, officials said yesterday.A majority of the deaths occurred in the...
CARACAS (AP):A senior United States diplomat was holding talks with Venezuela's hostile government and its opposition on Wednesday, apparently hoping to prevent a humanitarian disaster and ease a political...
GEORGE TOWN (AP):A rising population of green iguanas on Grand Cayman has become so alarming that the government has launched a pilot programme to figure out how best to fight the reptiles that began as escapees from...
Polish visitor slain,four detainedSANTO DOMINGO (AP):Police in the Dominican Republic said yesterday that they have detained four people in the stabbing death of a 37-year-old man from Poland.Authorities said an Italian man is among those detained...
Former house speakerbegins 15-month prison termCHICAGO (AP):Former United States House Speaker Dennis Hastert arrived at a Minnesota prison yesterday to serve his 15-month sentence in a hush-money case involving revelations that the Illinois...
US, Japan wants urgent UN meeting on missile launchUS, Japan wants urgent UN meeting on missile launchUNITED NATIONS (AP):The United States and Japan yesterday requested an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council on North Korea's...
WASHINGTON (AP): House Democrats staged a sit-down protest today, seeking a vote on gun control measures following the Orlando nightclub shooting. A group of about 30 Democrats led by Georgia Republican John Lewis demanded a vote on measures to...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP):The International Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced Congolese former vice-president, Jean-Pierre Bemba, to 18 years in prison for murders, rapes and acts of pillaging, committed by his troops...
JOHANNESBURG (AP):South African rioters blocked roads, looted shops and burned vehicles yesterday in several areas of the country's capital, Pretoria, in a show of anger over the selection of the ruling party'...
QUITO, (AP):Scores of Cubans are camped out in front of Mexico's embassy in Ecuador, appealing for help in reaching the United States.Among the group is Peter Borges, who said many spent all they had to reach Ecuador and...
CARACAS (AP):Top diplomatic officials from the United States and Venezuela met yesterday against a backdrop of food protests and a campaign to recall unpopular President Nicolas Maduro.Senior US diplomat Tom Shannon flew into Caracas after weeks of...
