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A tarantula named after singer Johnny Cash is among 14 new species identified by scientists who spent a decade collecting the hairy spiders and studying nearly 3,000 of them. The spider
The doctor taps Zulay Balza’s knees with a hammer and she doesn’t feel a thing. She can’t squeeze his outstretched fingers or shut her eyelids. Her face is partially paralyzed. “The
A Brazilian governor has fired his official human rights secretary because the man expressed a belief in curing homosexuality. Ezequiel Teixeira told the O Globo newspaper that he believed in a
Pope Francis’ finance minister said yesterday that he is prepared to meet in Rome with Australian victims of clergy sex abuse who are angry the cardinal won’t travel to Australia
JAPAN A corporate whistleblower’s eight-year courtroom battle against Japanese medical device maker Olympus Corp. has ended with a financial settlement and a promise from the company to end its harassment
President Barack Obama will pay a historic visit to Cuba in the coming weeks, senior Obama administration officials said, becoming the first president to set foot on the island in
The European Union can be a bewildering place, full of mystifying acronyms and impenetrable jargon. With EU leaders meeting going on to thrash out a deal that aims to keep
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Jenner says she also was unsure how her mother would react to her transition from a man to a woman (bit.ly/1Luvm7y). But she says her
He had been suffering from failing health for several years and was last seen in public three years ago. The country’s official news agency said his death was the result of
Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities rose in December to a record high despite cutbacks by China and Japan. Foreign ownership of Treasury securities increased 0.7 percent in December to a
Spain’s National Court ruled that a businessman accused of being part of a group that commissioned and sold USD33 million in high- priced fake art passed off as famed expressionist works
Philippines Four people, including a six-year-old girl, were killed in a roadside bombing in the southern Philippines by suspected Muslim insurgents who wanted to attack military reinforcements, police said yesterday.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a veteran Egyptian diplomat who helped negotiate his country’s landmark peace deal with Israel but then clashed with the United States when he served a single term as U.N.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday reiterated her proposal for a no-fly zone in Syria where civilians would be protected, a suggestion that was promptly rebuffed by Moscow, which said it
The United States and Cuba signed a deal restoring commercial air traffic for the first time in five decades, allowing dozens of new daily flights to bring hundreds of thousands more American
The law faces a stiff test this weekend, with the Countryside Alliance saying many hunts will be out in force. Chief police officers spokesman Nigel Yeo said he expected most people
CJ won best in show at the 140th Westminster Kennel Club this week, beating a couple of top favorites at a nearly packed Madison Square Garden. The three-year-old CJ bested 2,751
An actor was fatally stabbed with a real or mock samurai sword while rehearsing a play at a Tokyo studio, and police are investigating whether his death was criminal or
Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift and Alabama Shakes were the biggest winners at a Grammy Awards ceremony that, due to the recent deaths of some seminal stars, felt as much a
BANGLADESH A court in Dhaka has placed a publishing house owner and two other people on remand for publishing books alleged to hurt the religious sentiments of Muslims. The court
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