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Koreas resume talks as Seoul sees North Korea troop movement

Published:Sunday | August 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- Senior officials from North and South Korea on Sunday were in their second day of marathon talks meant to pull the rivals back from the brink, even amid reports of unusual North Korean troop and submarine movement that...

Islands prepare for weakening Hurricane Danny

Published:Saturday | August 22, 2015 | 12:25 PM

SAN JUAN (AP):A weakening Hurricane Danny approached Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands yesterday, but was expected to bring little relief to residents of the drought-stricken northern Caribbean.The Category 1 hurricane was located approximately...

Powerful typhoon leaves at least 10 dead

Published:Saturday | August 22, 2015 | 12:40 PM

PhilippinesMANILA, (AP) -- Typhoon Goni lashed the northern Philippines yesterday with pounding rain and winds that set off landslides and flooded low-lying villages, leaving at least 10 people dead and forcing more than 5,000 to flee their homes....

War drums still beating as talks drag on

Published:Saturday | August 22, 2015 | 12:30 PM

The first high-level talks in nearly a year between South Korea and North Korea stretched into the early hours this morning.The rivals, who are trying to defuse mounting tensions that have pushed them to the brink of a possible military...

This takes the cake: couple eats 60-year-old wedding slice

Published:Thursday | August 20, 2015 | 12:43 PM

SATELLITE BEACH, Florida (AP):A Florida couple, married 60 years, are still enjoying a tradition from their wedding day. Every anniversary, they take a bite from the top layer of their wedding cake stored in a coffee can in their freezer.Ann and Ken...

Panel investigates Wyoming magistrate over gay marriages

Published:Thursday | August 20, 2015 | 12:51 PM

CASPER, Wyoming (AP):A state judicial panel is investigating a western Wyoming local magistrate who was quoted in a local newspaper saying she would not perform same-sex marriages.Pinedale Municipal Judge Ruth Neely told the Sublette Examiner in a...

PM Tsipras says he is resigning, calling early elections

Published:Thursday | August 20, 2015 | 1:10 PM

ATHENS (AP):Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says he is stepping down and calling early elections after suffering a rebellion within his left-wing Syriza party over the country's new bailout programme.In a televised address to the nation last...

Dogs protect fawn body in wildfire-scarred Idaho

Published:Thursday | August 20, 2015 | 12:00 AM

KAMIAH, Idaho (AP):Among the images of destruction that have come from the wildfires tearing up the West is one showing an act of kindness by a family of dogs in Idaho.The photo, taken in wildfire-ravaged Kamiah by Louis Armstrong on Monday, shows a...

New York hotel source of deadly Legionnaires' outbreak that killed 12

Published:Thursday | August 20, 2015 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP):A historic hotel's rooftop air-conditioning unit is the source of a Legionnaires' disease outbreak that has killed 12 people and sickened more than 100 in the Bronx, city Health Commissioner Mary Bassett said yesterday.After extensive...

Feeling the heat: Earth in July was hottest month on record

Published:Thursday | August 20, 2015 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Earth just keeps getting hotter. July was the planet's warmest month on record, smashing old marks, United States weather officials said.And it's almost a dead certain lock that this year will beat last year as the warmest year on...

UN says Yemen on edge of famine from conflict, blocked ports

Published:Wednesday | August 19, 2015 | 4:49 PM

CAIRO (AP):The war in Yemen has pushed the country to the brink of famine, with both commercial food imports and aid deliveries held up by the fighting and millionsof hungry women and children facing possible starvation, the United Nations (UN) said...

Woman charged with letting disabled uncle starve to death

Published:Wednesday | August 19, 2015 | 4:08 PM

NEW YORK (AP):A woman accused of letting her severely autistic uncle starve to death amid filth has been charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, prosecutors said yesterday.Naisia Norman, 22, of the Bronx, pleaded not guilty to...

UN to let Iran inspect alleged nuke work site

Published:Wednesday | August 19, 2015 | 4:26 PM

VIENNA (AP):Iran will be allowed to use its own inspectors to investigate a site it has been accused of using to develop nuclear arms, operating under a secret agreement with the United Nations (UN) agency that normally carries out such work,...

Missouri pastor gets 7 years for $3.3M investment scheme

Published:Wednesday | August 19, 2015 | 4:39 PM

ST LOUIS (AP):A pastor who admitted bilking US$3.3 million from at least 18 mostly elderly investors was ordered yesterday to spend seven years in federal prison and repay the victims, many having described in detail how the scheme plunged them or...

Scientists find how obesity gene works, a clue to treatment

Published:Wednesday | August 19, 2015 | 4:13 PM

Scientists have finally figured out how the key gene tied to obesity makes people fat, a major discovery that could open the door to an entirely new approach to the problem beyond diet and exercise.The work solves a big mystery: Since 2007,...

China says it has arrested 15,000 people for cybercrimes

Published:Tuesday | August 18, 2015 | 12:00 AM

BEIJING (AP):Chinese police have arrested 15,000 people on suspicion of cybercrimes as the government tightens its control over the Internet, the Ministry of Public Security said yesterday.Police throughout the country have investigated more than 7,...

Intruders smash windows at Finish minister's home at night

Published:Tuesday | August 18, 2015 | 12:00 AM

HELSINKI (AP):Finnish police said they are investigating a series of attacks in Espoo near Helsinki, including on the finance minister's home in the middle of the night while the family slept inside.Government security chief Jari Ylitalo said...

Atlantic tropical depression forms, forecast to strengthen

Published:Tuesday | August 18, 2015 | 10:03 AM

MIAMI (AP):A tropical depression has formed in the Atlantic Ocean, and forecasters expect it to gradually strengthen.The storm is the Atlantic's fourth tropical depression of the season. Yesterday, the National Hurricane Center in Miami says it's...

Togo refugees: On the run for 10 years, no peace in sight

Published:Tuesday | August 18, 2015 | 10:57 AM

LAGOS (AP):Asylum seekers who fled political violence in Togo 10 years ago are now seeking refuge in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital.More than 100 people, including children who have been refugees all their lives, slept by a traffic-clogged road...

Merck recalls chemotherapy drug over child-proof cap cracks

Published:Tuesday | August 18, 2015 | 12:00 AM

UNITED STATES. NEW YORK, (AP):Merck is recalling 276,000 bottles of a chemotherapy drug because the child-proof caps on the pill bottles may be cracked.The Consumer Product Safety Commission said it doesn't know of any children who have been injured,...

Probe seeks apology to survivors of sex abuse in Scotland

Published:Tuesday | August 18, 2015 | 12:27 PMAP

UNITED KINGDOMLONDON, (AP):An independent commission is urging the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland to offer an unequivocal apology to victims of sex abuse.The inquiry was set up in 2013 following a series of scandals. Disgraced Cardinal Keith O'...

Egypt president approves sweeping anti-terrorism law

Published:Monday | August 17, 2015 | 12:00 AM

CAIRO, Egypt (AP):Egypt's president has approved a far-reaching anti-terrorism law that establishes stiffer prison sentences for terror-related offences, heavy fines for journalists who publish "...

Trump: Deny citizenship to babies of people illegally in US

Published:Monday | August 17, 2015 | 9:52 AM

WASHINGTON, (AP):Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wants to deny citizenship to the babies of immigrants living in the United States (US) illegally, as part of an immigration plan that emphasises border security and deportation for...

Indonesian plane debris seen; carried 54 people, gov't cash

Published:Monday | August 17, 2015 | 12:00 AM

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP):An airplane with 54 people on board that crashed in the mountains of eastern Indonesia was carrying nearly half a million dollars in government cash for poor...

Medical marijuana industry grows despite restrictions

Published:Monday | August 17, 2015 | 10:41 AM

CONNECTICUT, (AP):Nearly a year after the state's six medical-marijuana dispensaries opened, patients are changing their habits.For quick relief, they are smoking marijuana less and inhaling its vapours and therapeutic oils more, those in the...

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