US troops have raised the Stars and Stripes over Iwo Jima four days after landing on the Japanese- held volcanic island. The 28th Regiment of the 5th Marine Division took Mount
Four tourists from Britain and two from Australia are among seven people who died when a helicopter crashed on a scenic New Zealand glacier, police said. Rescuers yesterday were working to
Mary Waters’s application for her dream apartment included lots of the usual stuff: a couple years of tax returns, her passport and proof she has a Social Security number. Oh,
The attacks in Paris are affecting crucial climate change talks in the French capital starting later this month, but more than 120 world leaders strongly support the conference and have
A U.S. government watchdog group has asked two federal oversight agencies to investigate Sheldon Adelson. According to a Reuters report, the probe intends to determine if any money he donated
CHINA cuts interest rates on loans by small lenders that finance the country’s entrepreneurs in a new move to shore up lackluster economic growth. Yesterday, the People’s Bank of China
The Islamic State group has released a photo of a bomb hidden in a soft drink can that it said had brought down a Russian passenger jet over Egypt last
The Belgian extremist suspected of masterminding the deadly attacks in Paris died a day ago along with his female cousin in a police raid on a suburban apartment building, French officials said
The four judges who make up the International Military Tribunal took their seats at 1000 hours to hear the charges read out. The offences included waging a war of aggression, violating
Batman has his bat cave. Superman has his fortress of solitude. And soon the Avengers and a team of Transformers will call a corner on the Las Vegas Strip home. Treasure
The undercover FBI agent at the center of an organized crime investigation in San Francisco’s Chinatown testified yesterday (Macau time) that he posed as a vulgar, racist member of an
VIETNAM’s prime minister says the Communist country will do its best to develop good relations with China, but at the same time will defend its sovereignty in the disputed South
Muslims around the U.S. are facing backlash following the deadly attacks in Paris, including vandalism to mosques and Islamic centers, hate-filled phone and online messages and threats of violence. Advocacy leaders
A woman wearing an explosive suicide vest blew herself up yesterday as heavily armed police tried to storm a suburban Paris apartment where the suspected mastermind of last week’s gun
Apollo 12 almost failed before it began because of a leaking hydrogen tank, but launch crews raced against time to change it before takeoff. There was another moment of drama shortly
For the first time since the competition began in 2011, organizers will hold preliminary rounds to whittle the number of hopefuls from 36 to 12 who will compete in the
A car built by Google that drives itself around city streets had a brush with the law for driving too slowly. A police officer in the tech giant’s Silicon Valley hometown
INDONESIA Two Indonesian newlyweds have been arrested on accusations they plotted to kill a man the woman said had raped her a week before her marriage, and police said yesterday
A homemade explosive device brought down a Russian passenger plane over Egypt last month, the head of Russia’s FSB security service said yesterday, telling Russian President Vladimir Putin it’s now
The Paris attacks are rapidly weakening U.S. support for bringing in thousands more Syrian refugees, as pressure grows in Congress and the Republican presidential campaign to reverse course and governors
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