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A 93-year-old World War II veteran from the United States embraced his wartime girlfriend in Australia in their reunion this week after more than 70 years apart. Norwood Thomas and 88-year-old Joyce Morris laughed as they wrapped their arms around each other after Thomas flew from Virginia to the southern Australian city of Adelaide to reconnect with his long-lost love. “This is about the most wonderful thing that could have
AUSTRALIA’s deputy prime minister announced his retirement yesterday, with the prime minister likely to announce a cabinet reshuffle before elections due this year. Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss, who is
Republican businessman Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders forged ahead after decisive wins in the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary, and the Republican field dwindled by two with announcements that Carly Fiorina
The heads of the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches will hold a historic meeting today in the threadbare international airport of an officially secular, communist-run tropical island. Odd as the
Two men took just 50 seconds to climb a ladder, smash through a window of the National Art Museum in Oslo and cut The Scream, by Edvard Munch, from the
Alligators have been used as shoes, briefcases, university mascots, lunch and now, authorities say, a deadly weapon. Joshua James, 24, was arrested on Monday and charged with assault with a deadly
A starving sea lion has been rescued after finding its way into the booth of a fancy San Diego restaurant. Experts at SeaWorld were called last week to The Marine
SOUTH KOREA says it has agreed to begin talks with Washington on possible deployment of a US missile defense system. INDIAN authorities have deported an Australian man on suspicion of being
Egypt, the world’s largest wheat importer, issued a decision to send 63,000 metric tons of French grain back home after it was found to exceed the allowed level of ergot,
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos said on Saturday that there’s no evidence Zika has caused any cases of the birth defect known as microcephaly in his country, though it has
Rival campaigners for the U.K. to leave the European Union are struggling to agree on how they can rally the British public and win a vote that could come as
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country should not repeat in Syria the same mistake it made in Iraq when it turned down a U.S. request to be part of
One of the dead was a 15-year-old boy. About 240 people were injured - more than half of them police officers. The protest, which was banned under the State of Emergency
The new Chinese year is the one to go bananas over. Today the zodiac calendar enters the Year of the Monkey — the ninth of 12 animal signs. Plastic monkeys
Brazilian officials will soon decide whether to amend the South American nation's rigid procedures for sharing Zika samples, the Cabinet chief's spokeswoman said, as officials announced that they were sending
When Cromwell Coulson heard that an obscure Chinese real estate firm had agreed to buy the Chicago Stock Exchange, he was shocked. “My first reaction was, ‘Wow, that’s who they’re selling
Trade ministers from 12 Pacific Rim countries including the United States gathered yesterday in New Zealand for the ceremonial signing of a free-trade deal they say will significantly boost trade. But
When members of the Explorers Club gathered for their lavish annual dinner in New York City in 1951, one account said they feasted on meat from a prehistoric woolly mammoth
THAILAND Police in Bangkok say they have identified a man whose body parts were found floating in the city’s Chao Phraya River as a Spanish consultant, surnamed David, and also
The body of a missing Italian student was found with signs of torture, including multiple stab wounds and cigarette burns, by the side of a highway on the outskirts of
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