The President of the United States has described the destruction caused in New York and Washington as an act of war against all freedom-loving people. In
PHILIPPINES Pro-democracy activists yesterday protested the Philippine president’s declaration of a provincial holiday marking the birthday of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, and other steps they said promote
Pope Francis has sharply criticized climate change skeptics, saying history will judge those who failed to take the necessary decisions to curb heat-trapping emissions blamed for the warming
Portugal’s Pego do Altar reservoir looks like disused quarry now, its bare, exposed slopes rising up steeply on each side and shimmering in the sun as it
Announcing itself with roaring 130 mph winds, Hurricane Irma plowed into the mostly emptied-out Florida Keys yesterday for the start of what could be a slow, ruinous march up
In a candid and pointed new book, Hillary Clinton relives her stunning defeat to Donald Trump, admitting to personal mistakes and defending campaign strategy even as her return
An ordinary-looking freezer in a sturdy cinderblock shed at a suburban Boston botanical garden holds what might be New England's most important seed catalog. Inside the freezer in
Mexico was hit by its strongest earthquake in more than a century, killing dozens of people in southern states and shaking buildings in the capital. The tremor revived memories
Egypt on Saturday announced the discovery in the southern city of Luxor of a pharaonic tomb belonging to a royal goldsmith who lived more than 3,500 years ago and
The United States is in a state of shock after a day of attacks which have left thousands dead and New York's World Trade Center destroyed. The Pentagon was
MYANMAR Rohingya insurgents, whose attack on Myanmar security forces last month triggered savage military reprisals, declared a month-long truce yesterday as refugees continued to flood across the border into
With a visit from President Vladimir Putin, Moscow has inaugurated an innovative 13-hectare park that mimics features of Russia's landscape on land where a notoriously unsightly hotel once sprawled.
Guillermo del Toro's monster thriller "The Shape of Water" took top prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, capping an 11-day event where the demons of social division
Fearsome Hurricane Irma cut a path of devastation across the northern Caribbean, leaving at least 10 dead and thousands homeless after destroying buildings and uprooting trees on
An Illinois police officer has delivered his son in a hotel parking lot. The Rockford Register Star reports (bit.ly/2j16aTg) Rockford officer James Nachampassack was on duty early
Italy has signed an unconditional armistice with the Allies, General Dwight D Eisenhower has announced. The surrender was signed five days ago in secret by a
MYANMAR Journalists saw new fires burning yesterday in a Myanmar village that had been abandoned by Rohingya Muslims, and pages ripped from Islamic texts that were left on
A new study says the illegal sale of ivory in open markets in Central Africa has been disappearing or going underground. But it warns that corruption and weak governance
A mid-September conference on historically black colleges and universities remains on track, the White House said, despite reports that it has been postponed. Omarosa Manigault Newman,
Natural disasters have nearly quadrupled in number since 1970 and the United States has experienced the most disasters since 1995, followed by China and India, the United
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