A professional runner from Kenya who was out training on a nature trail in the woods near his home in Maine says he encountered two charging black bears
The armed forces of Britain, the United States and Canada have landed on the Mediterranean island of Sicily. It is the first major landing of British
IRAQ Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi celebrated with Iraqi troops yesterday in Mosul after they drove Islamic State militants from some of their last strongholds in a nearly nine-month campaign,
Polish officials say they have started evacuating about 10,000 people in eastern Poland after a huge World War II bomb was recently found during road works. Buses
On the eve of his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump vowed yesterday to confront “new forms of aggression” targeting the West and
Helicopters and armored vehicles patrolled the streets of Hamburg, as Germany’s second- largest city braced for hardening protests with the arrival of world leaders, including U.S. President
More than 2 1/2 years after the fatal breakup of Virgin Galactic’s experimental rocket plane, Richard Branson is poised to revive powered test flights as the
Hippos, malaria and capsized canoes were among the hazards for National Geographic researchers paddling along an Angolan river that had been barely studied. On a separate
A West German teenager has become the youngest ever player to win the Wimbledon tennis tournament. Boris Becker, a 17-year-old unseeded outsider before the tournament began,
GERMANY Hamburg police braced themselves yesterday for a major protest by anti-globalization activists as Germany’s second-biggest city started welcoming leaders of the leading Group of 20 industrial and
In a bid to end years of struggles, the Italian government is taking control of bank Monte dei Paschi under a relaunch plan agreed by European officials that
A new video has emerged of the Venezuelan policeman who allegedly stole a helicopter and then fired on two government buildings. In the 5-minute video published late Tuesday,
Foreign ministers from four Arab nations seeking to isolate Qatar over its alleged support for extremist groups met yesterday in the Egyptian capital, just hours after
Nasa scientists have freed a robot from the space probe Mars Pathfinder, allowing it to begin its exploration of the Red Planet at last. The rover,
Lionel Messi will play out the best remaining years of his trophy-rich career at Barcelona. The Spanish club said yesterday that Messi had agreed a
QATAR Foreign ministers from four Arab nations seeking to isolate Qatar over its alleged support for extremist groups met yesterday in the Egyptian capital, just hours after they
Emirates and Turkish Airways said yesterday they have also been exempted from a U.S. ban on laptops in airplane cabins, joining Etihad in satisfying American security concerns that
After my Macao Ghost Tour article a couple of months ago, I received enquires about what other ghost stories there are in Macao. People seem to be intrigued
North Korea said yesterday it successfully test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, a claim that brings the isolated state closer to its aim of building a device capable
U.S.-backed forces in Syria have breached the wall around Raqqa’s Old City, the U.S. military said yesterday, marking a major advance in the weeks- old battle
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