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At least 1,000 Soviet tanks are reported to have entered Budapest and troops deployed throughout the country are battling with Hungarian forces for strategic positions. The Soviet invasion is a response
A Cabinet minister has drawn outrage and mockery after suggesting transferring the thousands of stray cats that walk the streets of Israel to another country. The Yediot daily published what it
French President Francois Hollande has visited the ancient abbey Mont-Saint-Michel to inaugurate the bridge meant to ensure the site’s island status, finalizing 10 years of construction. The former causeway that used
Guenter Schabowski, the senior East German official whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, died yesterday
CHINA A cult leader in southern China accused of selling toxic food, swindling followers and seducing dozens of women with promises of supernatural powers has been convicted of rape and
An Egyptian ground service official who carried out a pre-flight inspection of the Russian passenger plane that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula said yesterday that the Airbus A321-200 appeared to
Turks headed to the polls yesterday for the second time in five months in a crucial election that will determine whether the ruling party can restore the parliamentary majority it
Somalia’s Islamic extremists attacked a hotel at dawn yesterday in the capital, Mogadishu, killing at least nine people and injuring 10, a police official said. Security forces ended the siege by
Hastings and Valetta aircraft brought in most of the 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards from Tripoli in Libya, in an effort to try to quell anti-British disturbances in the region. Over the
This Halloween, two brave souls got the dubious honor of waking up among 6 million dead bodies in Paris’ creepy Catacombs. Brazilian Pedro Arruda, 27, said he wasn’t sure if he
The 8-year-old male, Harapan, will make an air, land and sea trip of more than 10,000 miles. Including stops, the journey’s expected to take some 50 hours before the rhino
Maybe I’m a mite over concerned about the findings of the just-released survey by McLaughlin & Associates about the attitudes of college students toward free speech. The survey, conducted during
Speaking from a Gulf nation whose skyscrapers rose on oil wealth, Britain’s foreign secretary called yesterday on the rest of the wealthy Arab world to put their money toward renewable
Something about the dozens of individually wrapped chocolate bars in the luggage of a man flying from California to Japan struck a federal Customs and Border Protection officer as odd.
CHINA’s leaders yesterday affirmed plans to double the size of the country’s economy by 2020 from 2010 levels, a goal that sets up a potential clash with efforts to nurture
A Saudi blogger sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Muslim clerics has won the European Union’s prestigious Sakharov Prize for human rights. Raif Badawi was honored
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang appealed yesterday for a political solution to Syria’s civil war as diplomats prepared to meet in Vienna for new peace efforts.
Marco Rubio bid forcefully for control of the Republican Party’s establishment wing in Wednesday night’s (yesterday, Macau time) third Republican debate, deflecting jabs from Jeb Bush, who desperately sought to
Nicholas Reed was found guilty on three counts of aiding and abetting suicide and one of conspiracy to aid and abet. Mark Lyons, 70, Mr Reed’s co-accused and the man who
While U.S. politicians are scrambling for ways to pay for campaigns, few are likely to adopt the latest Bolivian tactic. Backers of President Evo Morales say they’re bolstering their finances with
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