LONDON (AP):Britain's normally raucous House of Commons was given over to tears, roses and warm tributes yesterday as legislators urged an end to angry and divisive politics in honour of their slain colleague Jo Cox, who was...
NEW YORK (AP):Donald Trump fired his hard-charging campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, yesterday in a dramatic shake-up designed to calm panicked Republican leaders and reverse one of the most tumultuous stretches of Trump's unconventional White...
ORLANDO, Fla (AP):Orlando gunman Omar Mateen identified himself as an Islamic soldier in calls with authorities during his rampage and demanded to a crisis negotiator that the United States "stop bombing...
WASHINGTON (AP):An experimental vaccine for the Zika virus is due to begin human testing in coming weeks, after getting the green light from United States health officials.Inovio Pharmaceuticals yesterday said it...
JERUSALEM (AP):The Israeli government has approved $18 million in extra funding for Jewish West Bank settlements.David Keyes, spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says the...
BEIRUT (AP):A Syrian opposition coalition on Sunday called on Turkey to investigate the deaths of at least eight Syrian refugees, including four children, who were allegedly shot dead by border guards...
LONDON (AP):British Prime Minister David Cameron warned Sunday of the dangers of embracing "leave" campaigner Nigel Farage's vision of Britain ahead of the country's referendum on its European Union membership....
LONDON (AP):The man accused of murdering British lawmaker Jo Cox gave his name as "Death to traitors, freedom for Britain" in court Saturday, following the killing that has brought campaigning ahead of the country's EU referendum to a standstill....
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's long and difficult referendum campaign has resumed in earnest after a three-day halt caused by the killing of Labour Party lawmaker Jo Cox in a brazen knife and gun attack. The death has cast a pall over the referendum...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Although the killer is known, the investigation continues into what motivated and enabled Omar Mateen to carry out the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in interviews Sunday on...
DOVER (AP):Don't try to talk to Brian Hall about economics, trading blocs or the value of the British pound. He won't listen.There's one factor - and one factor only - shaping his view in the June 23 referendum on whether Britain should stay in the...
LONDON (AP):The man accused of a murder that has brought campaigning in the country's European Union referendum to a standstill turned his first court appearance yesterday into a chilling spectacle by refusing to state his real identity.Asked his...
ASPEN (AP):Authorities say a mother fought off a mountain lion that attacked her 5-year-old son in Colorado last Friday night.The sheriff's office said the boy's mother heard screaming while he was playing outside in the front yard with his older...
ISLAMABAD (AP):Police in Pakistan have arrested a mother suspected of killing her pregnant daughter for marrying against the wishes of her family, the latest in a series of so-called 'honour killings' in the conservative Muslim country.Local police...
Less than 50 days before the start of the Olympic Games, the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro has declared a financial emergency. The 2016 Olympic Games is schedule to be held in Rio from August 5 to 21. However, interim Governor Francisco...
VIENNA (AP): The Russian Sports Ministry says it is "extremely disappointed" that the IAAF has ruled to uphold its ban on the country's track and field athletes competing in international competitions, including the Olympics. The...
Asylum requests skyrocketCARACAS, (AP):The number of Venezuelans seeking asylum in the United States has soared as the oil-dependent economy crashes.The most recent data from Citizenship and Immigration Services show that in March 2016, Venezuela...
Crashed plane's black box foundCAIRO, (AP):The cockpit voice recorder of the doomed EgyptAir plane that crashed last month killing all 66 people on board has been found and pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt's investigation committee said...
LONDON (AP):A British lawmaker was shot to death yesterday in a small town she represents, a tragedy that brought to a standstill the fierce campaign over whether Britain should leave the European Union.Labour legislator Jo Cox was attacked in...
CARACAS (AP):Venezuelan security forces are stepping up their presence in the coastal city of Cumana after more than 20 businesses were violently ransacked in another day of unrest across the crisis-wracked country....
HYDERABAD (AP):A city of nearly seven million people in southern India has declared a "high alert" for polio after an active strain of the virus was found in samples of sewage water, an official...
PRETORIA, (AP):Oscar Pistorius removed his prostheses and hobbled on his stumps in front of a judge in a South African courtroom yesterday, part of his defence team's attempt to show that the double-...
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida (AP):Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings says a dive team found the remains of Two-year-old Lane Graves of Elkhorn, Nebraska, at about 3:30 p.m. yesterday that's about 16 hours after an alligator snatched the toddler at...
PARIS (AP):A man who stabbed a police commander and police administrator to death at their home in a Paris suburb pledged loyalty to the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group and had a list of other targets,...
SANTO DOMINGO (AP):United States Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday called for Venezuela to respect freedom of expression, release political prisoners, and alleviate shortages of food and medicine as the South American country plunges deeper...
