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Jamie Gavin had the four-hour operation at Harefield Hospital in Middlesex, west of London. His condition is described as satisfactory. The young patient and his parents were flown from Ireland to London
The playful baboon Luka has been rescued and returned to Macedonia’s largest zoo after he was snatched by captors. Police say the 18-month-old crowd favorite was abducted Monday from Skopje Zoo
CHINA’s military is staging live-firing exercises in the country’s west as part of a series of drills involving more than 140,000 troops, state media reported yesterday. The “Joint Action-2015D” exercises
Greece has agreed on the broad terms of a new three-year bailout package with international creditors, with only a few details left to iron out, officials said yesterday. Euclid Tsakalotos sounded upbeat about
Police arrested nearly two dozen people in Ferguson during a protest that stretched into early yesterday marking the anniversary of the fatal shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old African-American by a
Dutch prosecutors have said for the first time that they have found possible parts of a BUK missile system at the site in eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
A Japan Airlines jumbo jet has crashed on a remote mountainside 70 miles (112km) from Tokyo in Japan. There were 15 crew and 509 passengers on board, mostly holidaymakers. There are no
Italian customs police have seized 49 kilograms of pure cocaine hidden in a container transporting frozen totani, a kind of squid, on a cargo ship from Argentina. Reggio Calabria prosecutor Federico
Mark Bolzern traveled 3,700 miles to go to the dentist. The 56-year-old Anchorage, Alaska, native left home this spring, made a pit stop in Las Vegas to pick up a
JAPAN Walt Disney Japan apologizes after a tweet sent from its corporate Twitter account wished readers “congratulations on a not special day” on the 70th anniversary of the U.S. atomic
A man who opened fire on officers in Ferguson, Missouri, on the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death was critically wounded when the officers shot back, a police chief in the
Two assailants opened fire at the heavily protected U.S. Consulate building in Istanbul yesterday, touching off a gunfight with police before fleeing the scene, Turkish media reports said. One of the
German federal prosecutors yesterday dropped a much-criticized treason investigation of two journalists who had reported on secret plans to expand online surveillance in Germany. Prosecutors notified website Netzpolitik.org in late July
The phenomenon began over the Atlantic, a few hundred miles east of Boston, North America. The only part of mainland Britain to witness totality - the full blacking out of the
There are plenty of smells in New York City’s subways. But skunks? The New York Post said that police and a transit worker rescued two baby skunks that had strayed into
Police in Bangladesh have shot dead six suspected tiger poachers in the world’s largest mangrove forest after a new survey found that the population of the big cats has dropped
The Asian high-spender (HS) market has changed dramatically in recent years and is now being dominated by Chinese consumers, according to a new report released by Tourism Research Australia. The study,
AFGHANISTAN A suicide bomber in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province has killed 29 people, mainly members of illegal armed groups that have clashed with security forces and the insurgents in the
One year after the shooting that cast greater scrutiny on how police in the United States interact with black communities, the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, was being
Israel intensified its crackdown on Jewish extremists yesterday, jailing two high-profile ultranationalist Israelis for six months without charge and arresting additional suspects in West Bank settlement outposts, security authorities said. The
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