US-CHINA The multitudes of Chinese students attending American universities are approaching college as less of a life experience and more as a transaction, educators worry, leading to measures to help
Secessionist parties who agree on breaking Catalonia away from Spain but little else started preparing for tough political negotiations aimed at forming a regional coalition government to push their independence
Information from Oleg Lyalin - supposedly a member of the USSR’s trade delegation in the UK - led to the expulsion of 105 Soviet officials from Britain on 25 September. Mr
Tomasz Smolarz, the governor of Lower Silesia, said the aim of the work in the town of Walbrzych is to exclude any danger for residents. He said the experts will
Mexican federal prosecutors are taking over the case of at least nine babies taken from poor or drug-addicted mothers and offered in an adoption-for-pay scheme. The prosecutors’ office in the northern
US-CHINA Beijing’s pledge to help crack down on hackers who steal commercial secrets from the United States, even coming as it did amid a bit of arm-twisting by President Barack
A rare confluence of a lunar eclipse and a supermoon this weekend has prompted such widespread fear of an impending apocalypse that the Mormon Church was compelled to issue a
France has fired its first airstrikes in Syria as it expands military operations against Islamic State extremists, President Francois Hollande’s office announced yesterday. The office said that “France has hit Syria”
Greeted by throngs of cheering faithful at every turn, Pope Francis is capping his whirlwind visit to the United States in an entirely fitting way — Mass for the masses
Sprinter Ben Johnson has been sent home from the Seoul Olympic Games in disgrace. The Canadian has also been stripped of his 100m gold medal after testing positive for drugs. Johnson has
Pope Francis wasn’t the only person to drink from the glass of water he used during his speech to Congress. An enterprising Democratic congressman from Philadelphia also took a sip. U.S.
Environmentalists on Friday asked a federal judge to stop the National Marine Fisheries Service from allowing Hawaii-based fishermen to attribute some of the bigeye tuna they catch to U.S. territories. They
Angelina Jolie Pitt has been in scouting locations in Cambodia for her next film, “First They Killed My Father,” which she is casting entirely with local talent. Jolie Pitt told AP she has spent
The rosary beads cost USD175. Sounds a bit pricey, except the Craigslist ad says they come with tickets to see Pope Francis. Same with the $10 train passes marked up
US-CHINA A Chinese woman who served a U.S. prison term for money laundering was returned to China yesterday, authorities said, just ahead of a meeting between President Barack Obama and
After months of delay and debate, European Union leaders agreed early yesterday to mount a broader, more comprehensive response to Europe's migration crisis, including ponying up more money to aid
At least 700 people were killed and hundreds were injured in a stampede yesterday on the outskirts of Mecca, the deadliest such tragedy to strike the annual hajj pilgrimage in
On the orders of President Dwight D Eisenhower, the troops arrived last night in full battledress with fixed bayonets and rifles and took over from local police following three weeks
Tens of thousands of people fleeing warfare and poverty are trying to enter Europe but at least one Iranian man who has made his home in Britain seems desperate to
Police say the Danish man accused of storing female genitalia in his freezer in South Africa, was arrested in neighboring Lesotho earlier this year. Lesotho police spokesman Senior Inspector Clifford Molefe
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