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Palestinian militants have hijacked an Italian cruise liner, the Achille Lauro, in the Mediterranean and threatened to blow it up. The gunmen are demanding the release of 50 Palestinian prisoners held
One of Italy’s most-wanted fugitive mob bosses was arrested after five years on the lam this week when police found him hiding in a home bunker built between the bathroom
A European Parliament member from Britain’s right-wing U.K. Independence Party — the front-runner to be UKIP’s next leader — was in serious condition in a hospital after an “altercation” yesterday
UNITED NATIONS Portugal’s Antonio Guterres, who was formally approved yesterday to be the next U.N. secretary-general, said he faces “huge challenges” and hopes to see unity and consensus during his
Ryan Grassley discovered a perplexing charge on a hospital bill for the recent birth of his son: Nearly USD40 for “skin to skin” contact after his wife gave birth via
Republican Mike Pence was calm and steady in the face of Democrat Tim Kaine’s fiery and frequent challenges. But when it came to defending Donald Trump, Pence dodged, sidestepped or
President Juan Manuel Santos is moving quickly on two fronts to save a peace deal narrowly rejected by Colombian voters, holding talks in Cuba with leftist rebels while inviting his
Fears are growing for the missing nuclear technician who disappeared in London after revealing details of Israel’s nuclear weapons programme. The American magazine, Newsweek, claimed earlier this week that Mordechai Vanunu
A curious Christmas tradition in the Catalonia region of Spain has caught Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump with their pants down. A Catalan company that makes ceramic “Caganer” figurines for nativity
Google has written off a 100,000-euro (USD112,000) bill run up by a 12-year-old Spanish boy who mistakenly believed he was earning money through an advertising account he opened with the
BELGIUM A knife-wielding man stabbed two police officers in Brussels in an attack that may be terror-related, Belgian prosecutors said. It was the latest attack on law enforcement officials in
The Security Council unanimously agreed early today that Portugal’s former prime minister Antonio Guterres should be the next secretary-general of the United Nations. Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin made the announcement
Syrian government forces pressed their assault yesterday on the eastern, rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo, opposition activists said, while state media reported that rebel shelling of government-controlled part of the city
British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in physics yesterday for discoveries on unusual states of matter that could result in improved
Don’t try to fence in Alaska moose battling for female attention. They’ll bust right through it. Bryan M. Anderson said he and his daughter went looking for moose early Sunday, stumbling
The bodies of 48 cult members have been discovered by Swiss police following an apparent mass suicide. Twenty-three of the bodies were found in a concealed chamber beneath a remote farmhouse
New York overtook London to become the most popular location for overseas commercial property investors as the growing U.S. economy and a stronger dollar draws buyers. Sales in the U.K.
SYRIA The United States won’t abandon its pursuit of peace in Syria after suspending direct U.S.-Russian talks on a cease-fire, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said, even as he
European commissioner Kristalina Georgieva, a latecomer to the race to be the next secretary-general, says being the first U.N. chief from Eastern Europe and the first woman to be the
A stunning referendum defeat for a peace deal with leftist rebels leaves Colombians with no Plan B to save an accord that sought to bring an end to a half
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