When the pontiff arrived at the two-storey building in the heart of the city’s slums, Mother Teresa climbed into the famous white Popemobile and bent down to kiss his hand. He
A Massachusetts graduate student who pointed out a glitch that allowed him to briefly “own” the world’s most heavily trafficked website has been awarded more than USD12,000 from Google. The Boston
China’s state-sanctioned Protestant church body says a pastor in a province where authorities have been cracking down on churches is under investigation for suspected misappropriation of funds. The Zhejiang province branch
State telecommunications company ETECSA said it would allow Cubans in Old Havana, the colonial center that is one of the island’s main tourist attractions, to order service through fiber optic
THAILAND says it has accelerated its fight against human trafficking and unregulated fishing. Bangkok says in the past eight months it has investigated 36 cases, arrested 102 suspects and rescued
Two Brazilian women, two pregnancies, one nightmare. But two very different stories. Regina de Lima and Tainara Lourenco became pregnant at a scary moment — the dawn of an extraordinary Zika
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders hope to translate voter enthusiasm into victories in Iowa caucuses, as Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton bank on sophisticated get-out-the vote operations. The caucuses
In a televised speech at the opening of Parliament in Cape Town, President FW de Klerk announced restrictions would be lifted on the ANC, the smaller Pan Africanist Congress and
British police have arrested a suspected thief with 38 mobile phones stuffed down his trousers. West Midlands Police say they believe the man stole the phones from concertgoers at a show
A Taiwanese woman was refused entry into Macau last week due to the fact that her passport was decorated with “Republic of Taiwan” stickers that advocate Taiwan’s independence. Apple Daily reported
CHINA strongly condemned the United States after a U.S. warship deliberately sailed near one of the Beijing-controlled islands in the hotly contested South China Sea to exercise freedom of navigation and challenge China’s vast
The latest bid to end five years of war in Syria gathered some momentum as the main opposition group arrived in Geneva for United Nations-sponsored talks, after lifting its threat
The United States should consider reparations to African-American descendants of slavery, establish a national human rights commission and publicly acknowledge that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity,
This is the first time there has been an accident on landing in the 42 years of American space flight. President George Bush told a nation in shock: “The Columbia
Elephant poachers in Tanzania fired on a helicopter on an anti-poaching mission, killing the British pilot, a conservation group said. Roger Gower was shot on Friday while flying on a
Birds sing in the canopy and a leopard roams the thick undergrowth of this rainforest in Uganda, where the mosquito-borne Zika virus was discovered almost 70 years ago. Yet while
As negotiations to end Colombia’s half-century conflict close in on a final deal, attention is turning to the fate of an aging bank manager-turned leftist rebel who is being held at a
Nineteen people from four states were arrested in connection with an international drug trafficking and illegal gambling ring that authorities allege was headed by a former college athlete. Arrests were
Renate Kvivesen, the principal of the Vikaasen preschool near Trondheim, told The Associated Press that “we don’t think it fits our values to host an event where children feel it’s
SOUTH KOREA Samsung Electronics reports a bigger-than-expected decline in fourth quarter earnings as its mainstay smartphone and semiconductor business suffered from weakening global demand for consumer electronics. INDONESIA's state-owned telecommunications company
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