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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
A Russian satellite has been launched into space - the first man-made object ever to leave the Earth’s atmosphere. The Russian news agency, Tass, said the satellite Sputnik was now 560
USA Ohio says it’s ready to resume executions in January after 3-year halt blamed on drug shortage. CHINA-SINGAPORE Singapore accused a nationalist Chinese state-run newspaper of fabricating details in a news
A children’s center in China, a bridge in Iran and a park in Denmark are among the six winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The winners were announced yesterday
As many as 75,000 children will die over the next year in famine-like conditions created by Boko Haram if donors don’t respond quickly, the U.N. Children’s Fund is warning. That’s
Taking a toy from a bear can be dangerous, especially when the toy is a mortar grenade. Malgorzata Chodyla, spokeswoman for a zoo in Poznan, in western Poland, told The Associated
Russian President Boris Yeltsin had agreed to break a flight from the United States to Moscow in County Limerick for a reception with the Irish prime minister. But instead there was
A team of top scientists is telling world leaders to stop congratulating themselves on the Paris agreement to fight climate change because if more isn’t done, global temperatures will likely
US A commuter train from New York barreled into a New Jersey rail station without stopping and crashed during the morning rush hour yesterday, injuring more than 100 people, some
Dutch-led criminal investigators said yesterday they have solid evidence that a Malaysian jet was shot down by a Buk missile moved into eastern Ukraine from Russia. Wilbert Paulissen, head of the
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