Police have clashed with some 300 migrants and refugees at the Greek border with Macedonia, as protests intensified and thousands ignored government instructions to move to organized shelters. Youths threw rocks
Poland’s president is traveling to Washington for a security summit but has no meeting scheduled with President Barack Obama. Observers in Poland say controversial government policies may be the reason. President
Julius Rosenberg, 33, and his 35-year-old wife, Ethel, were accused of stealing technical information from the atom research centre in Los Alamos and turning it over to the KGB. A radar
Police in a Connecticut town say they’d want to be present at future Easter egg hunts at candy company Pez’s visitor center after a hunt over the weekend turned into
Gongbei Customs will hold an auction for 30 kg of smuggled gold today. There will be 30 gold items up for bidding. Two years ago, Gongbei Customs seized the gold from
Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in the Czech Republic for a visit designed to boost economic and political ties. His arrival in the central European country reflects the more
CHINA A Chinese dissident writer says police in his hometown are holding three of his siblings in retaliation for an article he wrote condemning the detention of a fellow writer
The European Union is considering easing bank-failure rules introduced to end the era of expensive taxpayer-funded bailouts. A discussion paper prepared by the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, envisions setting
The construction cranes poking up from the jumble of terracotta roofs on Lisbon’s skyline can be counted on one hand — a dismal reminder for Ricardo Gomes of how little
They were found guilty of the August 1969 murders of seven people and one unborn child at the beginning of the year. Their victims included eight-months pregnant actress Sharon Tate -
A tough Siamese cat named Cupcake has survived eight days cooped up in a box after accidentally being sent through the mail by her British owners. Cupcake was in a box
Rescuing a bank has proved costly for Portugal’s efforts to balance its books, with the National Statistics Institute estimating the country’s 2015 budget deficit at 4.4 percent — way above
It was during a visit to Chiang Mai’s Rachamankha hotel in 2005 that Paiboon Damrongchaitham began the five-year quest to build his dream home. Paiboon, the 66-year-old chairman of GMM
HONG KONG police said missing book editor Lee Bo returned home yesterday following his disappearance in a case that rattled civil liberties advocates in the territory. In a statement the
America’s substantial support for NATO, both in money and military aid, has long been a source of frustration for U.S. leaders, and questioned by some as a throwback to the
New Zealand has voted to keep its current flag by a margin of 57 percent to 43 percent in a nationwide poll that ended yesterday. More than two million people voted
Mr Trimble needed a clear victory over his rival, the Rev Martin Smyth, to give him authority to handle the peace process but he only secured 57% of the votes
Two members quit the academy in 1989 after it refused to condemn Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini’s fatwa, or religious edict, against Rushdie for allegedly blaspheming Islam in his book “The Satanic
Ted Cruz is suggesting he’d find a place for Republican rival John Kasich in his future administration if Kasich agrees to drop out of the presidential race and supports him. Cruz
When the lights come on, the scene in front of you isn’t pretty: There’s a gagged woman handcuffed to a wall, a TV on at full volume and a guy
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