CINCINNATI (AP):Police said yesterday they were investigating the circumstances surrounding a four-year-old boy entering a gorilla's exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo and the animal being shot to death to protect the child.A federal investigation is...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP):Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday expressed concerns to German Chancellor Angela Merkel over plans in Germany's parliament to recognise the World War I killings of Armenians as genocide.Historians estimate that up...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP):South Korea's President Park Geun-hye met Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday and discussed the trade imbalance between the two countries on the second day of her three-day visit to Kenya.Park is in Kenya, East Africa's...
LONDON (AP):Renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking may have a good grasp of the workings of the universe, but he says he can't understand Donald Trump's popularity.Hawking told ITV's "Good Morning Britain" show yesterday that he has no...
The Voice: Skin bleaching will be banned in Ghana from August, as the African country attempts to strengthen public health and safety. Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has resolved to ban the sale of cosmetic products which contain the...
CINCINNATI (AP):Dozens of animal-rights advocates and others held a Memorial Day vigil at the Cincinnati Zoo in remembrance of a gorilla that was fatally shot to protect a four-year-old boy who entered its exhibit.The male western lowland gorilla...
WASHINGTON (AP):Edward Snowden performed a "public service" in stoking a national debate about secret domestic surveillance programmes, but he should still return to the United States (US) to stand trial, former US Attorney General Eric Holder said...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP):Former Chad dictator Hissene Habre was found guilty yesterday of crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture and sex crimes during his rule and was sentenced to life in prison, ending a trial more than 15 years in the making....
ROME (AP):A Rome university student was burnt alive by her ex-boyfriend after she left him, authorities said Monday - a slaying one investigator called the most atrocious crime he has seen in his career.Sara di Pietrantonio, 22, died before dawn...
The Cincinnati Zoo is defending its decision to shoot a 17-year-old gorilla in order to save a four-year-old child who had fallen into its enclosure on Saturday. Television footage shows the animal dragging the child through water on a couple...
Mexican international footballer Alan Pulido is safe after police rescued him from kidnappers who seized him in north-eastern Mexico. The 25-year-old Pulido was abducted at gunpoint on Saturday night in his hometown of Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas...
LONDON (AP):Senior Conservative Party members in Britain have intensified their attacks on Prime Minister David Cameron with an open letter accusing him of misleading the public over immigration.Former London Mayor Boris Johnson and Justice...
UNPOZZALLO, Italy (AP):The UN refugee agency says over 700 migrants are feared dead in three Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks south of Italy in the last few days as they tried desperately to reach...
SACRAMENTO, California (AP):A black teenager says he was escorted out of his high-school graduation ceremony in Sacramento by three deputies for refusing to remove his kente cloth, a traditional Ghanaian silk and cotton fabric.Nyree Holmes said on...
MADRID (AP):Gibraltar could find its access to the single European market blocked by a hostile Spanish government if the United Kingdom were to vote to leave the European Union in a referendum next month, the chief minister of the tiny British...
POZZALLO, Sicily (AP) -- Survivor accounts have pushed to more than 700 the number of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks over three days in the past week, even as European ships saved thousands of others in daring rescue...
ROME (AP):Italian coast guard and navy ships, aided by Irish and German vessels as well as humanitarian organisations, saved 668 migrants from smugglers' boats in distress in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya yesterday.The rescues are the...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP):Tropical storm warnings were up all along the South Carolina coast yesterday as a Tropical Storm Bonnie moves towards shore.The National Hurricane Center said there was a small window yesterday for the depression to get winds...
PARIS (AP):Eight children and three adults in Paris were struck by lightning yesterday after a sudden spring storm sent bolts crashing down upon a children's birthday party in a city park.The victims had sought shelter under a tree at Parc Monceau,...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP):An Indianapolis father and son have been charged in the robbery and killing of a man who was found dead in a parking lot with a pillow case over his head and duct tape around his neck.According to the Indianapolis Metropolitan...
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PARAMARIBO (AP):Suriname has landed a US78 million loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to boost an economic reform program amid a drop in commodity prices, becoming the second South American country to seek such a bailout in nearly a...
LONDON (AP):Britain received 333,000 people through immigration in 2015, a near-historic high, in figures that will fan the debate in Britain about newcomers ahead of a vote next month on whether the country should remain in the European Union(EU)....
MISSISSIPPI (AP):A Mexican national found smuggling 10 immigrants into the United States has been fined $5,000 and faces deportation after serving prison time.The Sun Herald reports 41-year-old Roberto Esquivel-Alonso received a 27-month prison term...
SHIMA (AP): President Barack Obama said yesterday that foreign leaders are "rattled" by Donald Trump and have good reason to feel that way as he accused the presumptive Republican presidential nominee of ignorance about world affairs.Weighing in on the...
