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Pope Francis canonized Argentina’s “gaucho priest” yesterday, bestowing sainthood on the poncho-wearing pastor with whom the first Argentine pope shares many similarities, from a taste for mate tea to a
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited victims of devastating Hurricane Matthew on Saturday, saying the destruction wrought by the storm was “heartbreaking,” and he renewed a pledge to help the nation
A powerful earthquake has rocked San Francisco killing nine people and injuring hundreds. The number of dead is expected to rise significantly. The two-tier Bay Bridge and Nimitz freeway both partially
Airline passengers who try to carry Samsung Electronics Co. Note 7 smartphones on flights will have them confiscated and may face fines under an emergency U.S. order that significantly expands
CHINA A gas explosion inside a coal mine in southwestern China has killed seven people and injured two more. Rescue crews at the Rongsheng mine in Guizhou province were able
Nearly 200 nations have reached a deal, announced Saturday morning after all-night negotiations, to limit the use of greenhouse gases far more powerful than carbon dioxide in a major effort
Donald Trump built the Taj Mahal casino and once called it “the eighth wonder of the world.” The Republican candidate in the race for the presidency — who took his Atlantic City
The case is considered the most important constitutional matter in a generation: can Prime Minister Theresa May start negotiating Britain’s exit from the European Union without an act of Parliament? Financial
Expectations were high when five big, developing nations in 2009 joined as the so-called BRICS. The cooperation of the fast-rising economies driving world growth seemed to herald a new era
Dozens of people have been killed in the Thai capital of Bangkok in street battles between government troops and demonstrators. Most of the victims were students from Thammasat University, who had
A video of an enraged tuk-tuk driver unloading on the state of Egypt’s flagging economy went viral yesterday, underlining growing popular discontent in the country over shortages of food staples
BRICS Expectations were high when five big, developing nations in 2009 joined as the so-called BRICS. The cooperation of the fast-rising economies driving world growth seemed to herald a new
The 193 U.N. member states have elected Portugal’s former prime minister Antonio Guterres by acclamation as the next secretary-general of the United Nations. Assembly President Peter Thompson introduced the resolution, said
Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy cited the American musician for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." Here's one of
Hacked emails show that Hillary Clinton’s campaign was slow to grasp the seriousness of the controversy over her use of a homebrew email server and believed it might blow over
Northern Ireland could be on the brink of peace after the three main loyalist paramilitary groups announced a ceasefire in Belfast. The move comes after the IRA declared a similar truce
It turns out a 93-year-old bridge deemed structurally deficient wasn’t so weak after all. Despite triggering explosives to bring down the Broadway Bridge between Little Rock and North Little Rock yesterday
JAPAN Toyota Motor Corp. recalls 340,000 gas-electric hybrid Prius cars around the world, 212,000 of them in Japan and 94,000 in North America, for a defect in their parking brakes.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has indefinitely postponed a trip to France after Paris had revised its program for the visit and said it would talk about nothing else but the
Four weeks before Election Day, Donald Trump battled yesterday to keep the Republican Party in line, leveling fresh criticism at GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan after Ryan effectively abandoned hopes
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