PHILIPPINES-CHINA President Rodrigo Duterte told China’s ambassador yesterday that he will not immediately press Beijing to comply with an international tribunal’s ruling that invalidated Chinese territorial claims in the South
Beyonce proved once again she is the contemporary rock star, and she used the MTV Video Music Awards stage to showcase her skills and outshine her peers, from Rihanna to
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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 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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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