Surgeons have performed a five-hour operation and say they hope he will make a full recovery. At about 1715 local time, the Pope was being driven in his Popemobile through a
A construction worker who won USD1 million in a lottery scratch-off game four years ago has defied enormous odds by hitting a $1 million jackpot again. But don’t call him lucky. After
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkish forces have killed some 3,000 Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, insisting that no other country has matched Turkey’s efforts against the
IRAQ A car bomb ripped through a commercial area in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 63 people and wounding dozens in an attack that was
Glasses with embedded cameras and smartwatches with stored information seem like regular spy equipment for the likes of James Bond, but for three students applying to medical school in Thailand,
A car bomb ripped through a commercial area in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 63 people and wounding dozens in an attack that was swiftly
Babies and children are among scores of people dying in military detention at a notorious Nigerian barracks where soldiers illegally hold suspected Islamic extremists, Amnesty International reported yesterday. Many detainees at
The civil ceremony was held up for almost an hour-and-a-half, after bitter arguments between Mr Jagger’s spokesman and the police over the number of reporters and photographers in the wedding
Ted Grant, publisher of the Daily Item in Lynn, said in an open letter published this week that “a lot has changed” since the band was last in town, on
Climbers are making good progress on Mount Everest and the first group could reach the summit as early as tomorrow, following two years of disasters on the world’s highest mountain,
A report billed as the first comprehensive look at world’s plants finds a planet slowly being ravaged by changing land use, mostly conversion of forests to agriculture to feed a
CHINA-NORTH KOREA Chinese President Xi Jinping extends his congratulations to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on his new title of chairman of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, underscoring
Two airstrikes struck a northwestern Syrian town yesterday, killing at least 10 people, wounding many others and knocking out the dome of a mosque, opposition activists said. The air raids on
Turkey came under scrutiny yesterday for alleged human rights violations committed by security forces against Kurds in the southeast and Syrian refugees trying to enter the country, with two organizations
Enclosed in today’s souvenir issue was a copy of its sister paper the Daily Mail to which owners Harmsworth Publications hope former Sketch readers will now switch. However, production of the
Wildlife officials say a Florida man was knocked unconscious by a sturgeon that leapt into his boat on the Suwannee River during a fishing tournament. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Independent bookselling remains on a roll. The American Booksellers Association has grown for the seventh consecutive year. Core membership increased to 1,775, up by 63 over the previous year and by
Convicted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who twice pulled off brazen jailbreaks and is fighting to avoid extradition to the United States, was abruptly transferred to a prison in
CHINA 34 bodies have been found and four people were still missing following a landslide at the site of a hydropower project after days of heavy rain in southern China,
Across the United States, heroin users have died in alleys behind convenience stores, on city sidewalks and in the bathrooms of fast-food joints — because no one was around to
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