This Day in History | 1960 Macmillan speaks of ‘wind of change’ in Africa

The Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, has had a frosty reception from politicians in South Africa after speaking frankly against the country’s system of apartheid.

Offbeat | Critics don’t even want animatronic Trump to speak

Some critics of President Donald Trump are so adamant in their opposition that they don’t even want a fake version of him to speak. An online petition

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US-MALTA A decade-old program to resettle a fixed quota of refugees arriving in the small, southern EU nation of Malta to the United States is another casualty of

The Buzz | German foreign minister to visit US with ‘friendship offer’

Germany’s foreign minister is heading for Washington to meet newly sworn-in U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and convey what he calls an “offer of friendship and trust.”

Brexit | UK lawmakers back bill to trigger EU exit talks

Britain moved closer to leaving the European Union yesterday as lawmakers backed a bill authorizing divorce proceedings and kept alive the government’s plan to trigger Brexit

New Pentagon chief seeks to reassure nervous Asian allies

By visiting Japan and South Korea on his first official overseas trip, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is seeking to reinforce key alliances after President Donald Trump’s campaign-trail

Trump adviser | Peter Thiel became New Zealand citizen in California in 2011

Silicon Valley billionaire and President Donald Trump adviser Peter Thiel was able to gain New Zealand citizenship in 2011 despite never having lived in the country, because a

Heavy fighting continues in eastern Ukraine, 10 killed

Freezing and nerve-shattered residents of an eastern Ukraine town battered by an upsurge in fighting between troops and Russia-backed rebels flocked to a humanitarian aid center

USA | Trump’s secretary of state pick headed for Senate approval

President Donald Trump’s nomination of Rex Tillerson for secretary of state is headed toward Senate confirmation after several Democrats crossed party lines to back the former Exxon

This Day in History | 1979 – Sid Vicious dies from drugs overdose

Sex Pistols’ bass player Sid Vicious has died of a heroin overdose in New York. His mother, Anne Beverley, found him dead in bed

Offbeat | Hummingbird egg gets in way of upgrades to California bridge

A tiny unborn hummingbird is getting in the way of a big bridge project in the San Francisco Bay Area. The discovery of a nest and

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HONG KONG Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of Chinese billionaire Xiao Jianhua reportedly taken away from his Hong Kong hotel by mainland police, in a case that has parallels with

Lawsuit: Depp USD2m monthly spending to blame for money woes

Johnny Depp’s former business managers countersued the actor claiming his lavish lifestyle that cost more than USD2 million a month to maintain caused his recent financial

A commuter’s dream | Entrepreneurs race to develop flying car

Even before George Jetson entranced kids with his cartoon flying car, people dreamed of soaring above traffic congestion. Inventors and entrepreneurs have long tried and failed to make the

UK says Trump visit still on amid outcry over travel ban

President Donald Trump’s order barring U.S. entry to people from seven majority Muslim nations is “divisive, discriminatory and wrong,” British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said. But he

Mexico | President earmarks USD50 million to back migrants in United States

Mexico’s president said yesterday his country will spend about USD50 million to hire lawyers for migrants in the United States facing deportation. The money will be

This Day in History | 1961 – Chimp returns safely after space flight

A chimpanzee sent into space in a rocket by the United States has been recovered alive and well about 420 miles (676 km) from the launching

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UK President Donald Trump’s order barring U.S. entry to people from seven majority Muslim nations is “divisive, discriminatory and wrong,” British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said.

May-Trump meeting to test UK-US ‘special relationship’

British Prime Minister Theresa May has won the race to be the first foreign leader to meet President Donald Trump in Washington. But her trip to the

Offbeat | Thief in Germany drives tractor through wall, steals safe

Police in northwestern Germany are searching for a brazen thief — or thieves — who knocked down the wall of a house with a tractor and made off

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