The U.S. Secret Service says agents have intercepted packages containing “possible explosive devices” addressed to former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The agency says neither Clinton nor Obama
Lottery officials say someone has won the record USD1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot. Mega Millions officials said a ticket purchased in South Carolina matches all
Saudi officials murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi in their Istanbul consulate after plotting his death for days, Turkey’s president said yesterday, contradicting Saudi Arabia’s explanation that the writer
A high-profile economic forum in Saudi Arabia began yesterday in Riyadh, the kingdom’s first major event on the world stage since the killing of writer Jamal Khashoggi at
Pope Francis has convened a meeting of South American bishops next year focusing on the plight of the church in the Amazon, a vast territory served
When Washington’s USD500 million Museum of the Bible held its grand opening in November 2017, attended by Vice President Mike Pence, there were questions even then about the
The United Nations Organisation has been formally inaugurated during a short ceremony at the US State Department in Washington. A total of 29 countries ratified the
VIETNAM’s rubber stamp National Assembly elected Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong as the country’s president yesterday. The 74-year-old Trong is the first Vietnamese leader to
China’s vice president yesterday kicked off a trip to Israel that illustrated the warming ties between the two countries. Wang Qishan is in the region for
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were greeted by hundreds of flag-waving well-wishers yesterday after arriving in Fiji for a three-day visit as part of their
Julia Roberts was brought to tears by “Notting Hill” writer Richard Curtis, Jeff Goldblum showed off his socks and celebrated his 66th birthday with a cupcake, and
With the Mega Millions lottery jackpot at a record USD1.6 billion, people are snapping up tickets across the U.S. The Powerball jackpot also has climbed.
In recent months, the Trump administration has repeatedly put off the release of its long-awaited Mideast peace plan. Now, the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in Hungary to demand an end to Soviet rule. There are believed to have been many casualties
It wasn’t a cat in a tree, but a dog in a heating duct that took firefighters to a home in Virginia. The Fairfax County
British Prime Minister Theresa May was seeking to scotch a growing rebellion against her Brexit plans yesterday, urging lawmakers to back her and saying a divorce deal with the
CHINA-JAPAN Around 500 Japanese business leaders will accompany Prime Minister Shinzo Abe when he visits Beijing this week, amid an ongoing China-U.S. trade feud that is hurting industries
Two Ernest Hemingway stories written in the mid 1950s and rarely seen since will be published next year. The director of Hemingway’s literary estate, Michael Katakis, told
Despite Mexican efforts to stop them at the border, about 2,000 Central American migrants swam or rafted across a river separating that country from Guatemala, re-formed their
European and Japanese space agencies said an Ariane 5 rocket successfully lifted a spacecraft carrying two probes into orbit Saturday for a joint mission
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