The PM was speaking at the despatch box during his weekly question and answer session soon after midday when father-of-two Ron Davies threw two missiles from the front of the
Bullet the bison was transported this weekend from Karen Schoeve’s home in Argyle to her new home, which she will share with two cows, 15 miles away in Flower Mound. Schoeve
In a major doping crackdown stretching back eight years, 31 athletes in six sports could be barred from competing in this year’s Olympics after they were caught in retesting of
CHINA’s official media reaffirmed the Communist Party’s longstanding judgment that the Cultural Revolution was a catastrophic mistake. MYANMAR The Obama administration lifted sanctions against 10 state-run Myanmar companies and banks yesterday
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry backed providing weapons to Libya’s unity government to assist in the fight against Islamic State and other jihadist groups, a move endorsed at a
The First Amendment is getting a new champion, with some deep pockets. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Columbia University yesterday announced the launch of a USD60 million project,
A wave of bombings struck outdoor markets and a restaurant in Shiite-dominated neighborhoods of Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 69 people, officials said — the latest in deadly militant attacks
Jim Jarmusch debuted his patient, bus driver-poet drama “Paterson” at the Cannes Film Festival where festival-goers responded enthusiastically to the film’s gentle and quirky rhythms. In the movie, Adam Driver plays a bus
Polish troops entered the hill-top abbey this morning, six days after the latest attacks began on this strategic stronghold at the western end of the German defensive position known as
A 64-year-old cancer patient has received the nation’s first penis transplant, a groundbreaking operation that may also help accident victims and some of the many U.S. veterans maimed by roadside
Colombian authorities say they’ve made the biggest cocaine seizure in the history of a country long plagued by traffic in the drug. The National Police agency says 50 commandos backed by
CHINA has reclaimed more than 3,200 acres of land in the southeastern South China Sea. But the country’s focus has shifted to developing and weaponizing those man-made islands so it
President Barack Obama cast Donald Trump’s positions on immigration, trade and Muslims as part of an ignorance-and-isolation philosophy that the president says will lead the U.S. down the path of
Brazil’s Acting President Michel Temer said he will only gain popular recognition if he produces tangible results for the population, while pledging not to run for the country’s top job
Iranian police have arrested eight people in a new crackdown targeting “un-Islamic acts” online such as female models posting images of themselves without their hair covered, state media reported yesterday,
It was dug up from a field about a mile away from the Chaplin home in Corsier near Lausanne, Switzerland. The legendary comedian died on Christmas Day last year, aged 88.
Philadelphia police officers attached a large Google Maps logo to a surveillance van in an apparent attempt to disguise it as one of the company’s street-filming cars. Police spokesman Lt. John
Pope Francis says he’s willing to create a commission to study whether women can serve as deacons in the Catholic Church, signaling the possibility of letting women serve in ordained
CHINA A navy fighter jet on a nighttime training mission crashed into buildings in an eastern city, but the pilot ejected safely and there were no reports of casualties. AUSTRALIA All
Two British and a Mexican climber yesterday became the first foreigners to scale Mount Everest in two years together with three Nepalese guides, officials said. The six climbers reached the 8,850-meter
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