Tourist describes death, harrowing month in New Zealand bush

Pavlina Pizova says she couldn’t free her partner after he slipped down an icy bank and became wedged between rocks and branches. After he died, she stayed with him through

France | Burkinis, economy top items in presidential campaign

The national identity crisis exposed by France’s burkini controversy is threatening to set the tone for the country’s presidential campaign. Along with the economy, the relationship between France’s Muslims and non-Muslims

Turkey | One Turkish soldier killed, eight wounded in southeast

One Turkish soldier was killed and eight others wounded in two separate blasts yesterday in the country’s Kurdish-dominated southeast, and Kurdish militants launched a rocket-propelled grenade at a civilian airport,

Brazil | Defense witnesses testify in trial of president

Brazilian senators on Saturday questioned the last two witnesses summoned by the defense for President Dilma Rousseff in her impeachment trial for allegedly breaking fiscal rules in the management of

This Day in History | 1950 – British troops arrive in Korea

A British force of about 4,000 infantry has arrived in Korea from Hong Kong. The decision to send the troops, as back up for the American-led United Nations force, was taken

Offbeat | UK broadcaster shuts down for hour, asks viewers to exercise

One of Britain’s leading broadcasters has blacked out its programs for an hour in hopes of spurring viewers to get some exercise. ITV shut down broadcasts on several of its channels

The Buzz | UK leader May, Cabinet to chart EU exit at Chequers retreat

British Prime Minister Theresa May is bringing her Cabinet together at her rural retreat to plot Britain’s first steps on leaving the European Union. Officials at May’s Downing Street office say

World briefs

CHINA Investigators in eastern China said they have not found high levels of pollution around a school where an explosive state television report in April said hundreds of kids had

Two Chicago men charged in shooting of NBA star Wade’s cousin

Two brothers have been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of the cousin of NBA star Dwyane Wade as she was walking to register her children for school,

Feature | Disaster: Italy investigates quake buildings, checking for code fraud

Bulldozers with huge claws pulled down dangerously overhanging ledges yesterday in Italy’s quake-devastated town of Amatrice as investigators worked to figure out if negligence or fraud in building codes had

Minneapolis bridge collapse survivor faces terror charge

A survivor of the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse that killed 13 people now faces terror charges after authorities say he traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group, departing

Syria | Turkey, US say Kurds are pulling back in north Syria

Syrian Kurdish forces have started withdrawing east of the Euphrates River, Turkish officials said yesterday, a move that could fulfill a major demand by Ankara and the United States a

This Day in History | 1962 Abortion mother returns home

An American mother-of-four is on her way home amid a storm of controversy after being given a legal abortion in Sweden. Sherri Finkbine, a TV presenter from Phoenix in Arizona, was

Offbeat | Boy, 5, uses allowance to buy lunch for police

A 5-year-old boy in New Jersey has picked up the lunch tab for his police department. William Evertz Jr. saved up his allowance for seven months and went to a Subway

The Buzz | London flight delayed for hour as easyjet crew members argue

An easyJet flight from London’s Gatwick Airport to Belfast has faced an hourlong delay after two crew members got into an epic shouting match. Shocked passengers tweeted about the argument that

World briefs

CHINA is facing a one-year ban from weightlifting over repeated doping cases in a move that threatens to stop some of the world’s top athletes from competing internationally. MYANMAR Using brooms

Mexico | Experts say storms led to deaths of millions of monarchs

Storms earlier this year blew down more than a hundred acres of forests where migrating monarch butterflies spend the winter in central Mexico, killing more than 7 percent of the

World briefs

CHINA Revived appetite for emerging market stocks and bonds is starting to include China - and even its embattled currency. HONG KONG shares fell the most in three weeks on speculation

This Day in History | 1967 – ‘American Hitler’ shot dead

The leader of the American Nazi party, George Lincoln Rockwell, has been shot and killed by a sniper at a shopping centre in Arlington, Virginia. Minutes after the shooting a “captain”

Offbeat | Dog-gone: Canine candidate re-elected Minnesota town mayor

The four-legged mayor of a northwestern Minnesota village greets voters like a true politician. Duke, a 9-year-old Great Pyrenees, won a third one-year term as honorary mayor of Cormorant Township on

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