Published:Thursday | September 24, 2015 | 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP):Standing before a rapt Congress, Pope Francis issued a ringing call to action on behalf of immigrants yesterday, urging lawmakers to embrace "the stranger in our midst" as he became the first pontiff in history to address a joint...
Published:Thursday | September 24, 2015 | 11:02 AM
WASHINGTON, (AP):Five-year-old Sophie Cruz made her way through a security fence and was just feet from Pope Francis' Popemobile during a short parade around the White House when she hesitated.Clutching a yellow T-shirt and a note about immigration...
Published:Wednesday | September 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM
BERLIN (AP): Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn stepped down today over a scandal in which the German carmaker admitted to rigging its diesel cars' emissions to pass US tests. In a statement, Winterkorn said he took responsibility for the "...
SANTIAGO (AP):Pope Francis yesterday called on Cubans to rediscover their Catholic heritage and live a "revolution of tenderness", powerful words in a country whose 1959 revolution installed an atheist, communist government that sought to replace...
WASHINGTON, United States (AP):Most Americans will experience at least one wrong or delayed diagnosis over their lifetime, a US report predicts, calling diagnostic errors a blind spot in...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP):Anti-corruption prosecutors in Romania say a manager of a cultural centre in Rome and his wife who works at the Romanian Embassy in Rome are being probed on suspicion...
WASHINGTON (AP): Pope Francis arrived today on the first visit of his life to the United States, bringing his "church of the poor" to the world's wealthiest superpower and a country polarised over issues closest to his heart:...
ATHENS, (AP):A jubilant Alexis Tsipras vowed to continue fighting for his country's pride and to quickly form a coalition government after his left-wing Syriza party comfortably won Greece's third national vote this year on Sunday.The result was a...
1 in 4 college women surveyed report unwanted sexual contactOHIO, United States (AP):A new survey finds that a quarter of undergraduate women at more than two dozen universities say they experienced unwanted sexual contact at some point during...
JACKSONVILLE, United States (CMC):The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency said it has seized more than 126,489 pounds of cocaine in the Caribbean Sea...
Campaign starts for Haiti's municipal and presidential electionsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC):The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) says the campaign for the October 25 legislative and presidential election will begin on Wednesday.In a...
HOLGUIN (AP):Pope Francis marked a personal anniversary yesterday, the day he decided as a teenager to become a priest, by travelling to the Cuban city of Holguin, emphasising his papacy's focus on preaching the faith in places far from the...
HAVANA (AP):Pope Francis and Fidel Castro, the man who transformed his country through decades of Communism, met yesterday at the revolutionary leader's home shortly after the Pope told tens of thousands of Cubans to focus their lives on service to...
EAST SELMA, Alabama (AP):An Alabama prosecutor says a suspect has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting a woman, an infant, and a pastor inside a church in Alabama.Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson said James...
SANAA, Yemen (AP):Yemen's Shiite Houthi rebels have released six foreign hostages, including at least two Americans, and flown them to the Gulf country of Oman, which helped negotiate their release, officials said yesterday.Houthi officials and...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP):Security researchers say they found critical weaknesses in a South Korean government-mandated child surveillance app - vulnerabilities that left the private lives of the country's youngest citizens open to hackers.In separate...
WOODBURY, New Jersey (AP):A Philadelphia woman convicted of stealing more than $35,000 worth of cellphones from two stores in New Jersey is now headed to prison.Fatima Aviles received a three-year sentence on Friday and was also ordered to pay...
BERLIN (AP) -- The United States is seeking to ease the Syrian refugee crisis by significantly increasing the number of worldwide refugees it takes in over the next two years, though not by nearly the amount many activists and former...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says Islam is antithetical to the Constitution, and he doesn't believe that a Muslim should be elected president. Carson, a devout Christian, says a president's faith should...
Published:Thursday | September 17, 2015 | 11:16 AM
TOVARNIK (AP):Thousands of people poured into Croatia from Serbia yesterday, with some trampling over each other at jammed border points in a rush to get on limited buses and trains. Dozens were injured in the mÍlÈe, and even some guards stood...
Published:Thursday | September 17, 2015 | 11:29 AM
ILLAPEL (AP):Thousands of residents of this small city in northern Chile slept outside yesterday after a powerful earthquake destroyed their homes, forced more than one million to evacuate, and killed at least 10 people in the quake-prone South...
Published:Thursday | September 17, 2015 | 12:00 AM
NEW JERSEY (AP):Jardiance sharply reduced chances of dying in diabetic patients at high risk of heart complications, a study shows, making the medication the first shown to lengthen diabetics' lives.The daily pill for Type 2 diabetes reduced deaths...
Published:Thursday | September 17, 2015 | 11:42 AM
VATICAN CITY (AP):The Vatican is hoping the recent restoration of diplomatic relations between the United States (US) and Cuba will soon translate in to an end of the US economic embargo on the island.On the eve of Pope Francis' trip to the one-time...
Published:Thursday | September 17, 2015 | 10:54 AM
BUCHAREST (AP):Romanian prosecutors yesterday formally indicted Prime Minister Victor Ponta on corruption charges, including tax evasion and money-laundering, and said he will be tried by the country's top court.Ponta won't be arrested, Livia...
