The United Nations received pledges of nearly USD100 million in new funding for the U.N. relief agency for Palestinians after the U.S. slashed its aid, but it is
China Members of the Uighur Muslim ethnic group held demonstrations in cities around the world yesterday to protest a sweeping Chinese surveillance and security campaign that has sent thousands
Russia will “certainly” expel British diplomats in a tit-for-tat response to Britain’s decision to send 23 Russians home over the poisoning of a former spy, the foreign minister said
A former TV weatherman who legally changed his name to Meteorologist Drew Anderson says there’s a 100 percent chance he’ll run for Congress in Pennsylvania under the
In his final years, the only thing connecting the brilliant physicist to the outside world was a couple of inches of frayed nerve in his cheek.
Fans of skiing, saunas and Santa Claus won’t be surprised to hear Finland is the happiest place to live. The World Happiness Report published
INDONESIA The conservative province of Aceh known for publicly caning gays, adulterers and gamblers is considering the introduction of beheading as a punishment for murder. CAMBODIA With
The European Union’s trade chief is questioning the rationale of U.S. President Donald Trump in threatening to impose tariffs on EU exports of steel and aluminum, and says
Survivors of a plane crash at Nepal’s main airport this week say it’s a miracle they survived an accident that killed 49 of the 71 people on
Germany’s parliament elected Angela Merkel for her fourth term as chancellor yesterday, putting an end to nearly six months of political drift in Europe’s biggest economy.
A decade after the Pentagon began confronting rape in the ranks, the U.S. military frequently fails to protect or provide justice to the children of service members when they
The British radio telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire has set a new space record making contact with the American Pioneer V satellite at a distance
“Yeee Haaa!” Authorities in Colorado are looking for a man suspected of stealing a Sno-Cat fitted out to look like the “General Lee,” the famous
The use of Russian-developed nerve agent Novichok to poison ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter makes it “highly likely” that Russia was involved, British Prime Minister Theresa May
Japan-Korea Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (right) met with South Korea’s intelligence chief yesterday, and said that while he welcomes any dialogue with North Korea regarding
President Donald Trump ousted Rex Tillerson as secretary of state yesterday, making a surprise Twitter announcement that he’s naming CIA director Mike Pompeo to replace him.
Donald Trump Jr. has a previously undisclosed business relationship with a longtime hunting buddy who helped raise millions of dollars for his father’s 2016 presidential campaign and
A helicopter crashed into New York City’s East River and flipped upside down in the water, killing all five passengers aboard, officials said. A spokesman for the NYPD
A small group of Syrian civilians yesterday left the rebel-held enclave of eastern Ghouta just outside of Damascus, using a corridor established by the Syrian army amid
The Conservatives are celebrating a record majority in the Bridgwater by-election. They won by 10,915 votes, the largest in the constituency for 50 years. It was the
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