The 3-year-old boy could have been dressed for preschool. Instead he was lying face down in the surf. Suddenly offers of money, meals and refuge are pouring in to help the
The Vatican will shelter two families of refugees who are “fleeing death” from war or hunger, Pope Francis announced yesterday as he called on Catholic parishes, convents and monasteries across
For weeks while they traveled a punitive road, Europe cast a cold eye on their unwelcome progress. On Saturday, for the first time since fleeing their troubled homelands, they could
The Ministry of Home Security said the scale of the attacks was the largest the Germans had yet attempted. “Our defenses have actively engaged the enemy at all points,” said a
With the Mid-Autumn Festival just around the corner, a senior disciplinary official has issued a stern warning against corruption and extravagance. While lauding the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) fight against
Durban in South Africa will host the 2022 Commonwealth Games, becoming the first African city to be awarded the four-yearly multi-sports event. The 71 nations and territories of the Commonwealth Games
Al Capone, with raised eyebrows, appeared to be taking a curious sideways glance at the two-minute video of soccer playing and talk about corruption and crooks. The same Las Vegas museum
HONG KONG’s Land Registry recorded 5,197 sale and purchase agreements for all building units in August, down 29.2 percent on July and down 34.2 percent year-on-year, it said yesterday. The
Hundreds of migrants chanted defiant slogans outside Budapest’s main international train station yesterday as Hungarian police blocked them for a second day from seeking asylum in Germany and other wealthy
The remote island situated between Shetland and Orkney was bought by George Waterston, an Edinburgh ornithologist, in 1948. He set up a bird observatory which has since built up a
Already home to replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Sphinx, Las Vegas now has its own copy of Belgium’s Manneken-Pis, a statue of a naked little boy relieving himself into
"We have reached a conclusion that it would be only appropriate for us to drop the logo and develop a new emblem," said Toshio Muto, director general of the Tokyo
Rihanna says she's thrilled to have had a decade-long career in music and she plans on celebrating the feat at some point this year. "Definitely a very big deal for me.
CHINA has established a USD10 billion fund to support the country's industrial cooperation with Latin America, the central bank announced yesterday. Initiated by the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the
The State Department made public roughly 7,121 pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails late Monday night (yesterday, Macau time), including 125 emails that were censored prior to their release because
President Barack Obama is painting a doomsday scenario for the Arctic and beyond if climate change isn't dealt with fast: entire nations submerged underwater, cities abandoned and refugees fleeing in
The death toll from violent protests in Ukraine rose to three yesterday when two more National Guard officers died from injuries suffered in a grenade explosion, officials said. In the worst
Hungary suspended all rail traffic yesterday from its main terminal in Budapest and cleared the train station of hundreds of migrants trying to board trains for Austria and Germany —
A Benedictine monk who works at a Rhode Island school has discovered that finding solitude is no easy feat, even 53 meters in the air. Brother Joseph Byron was recently
MALAYSIA’s prime minister vows he will not quit over a USD700 million financial scandal, and accuses protesters of showing “poor national spirit” by holding a massive rally to demand his
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