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CHINA A U.N. human rights expert has criticized China for its lack of transparency in handling a chemical blast in Tianjin. Baskut Tuncak says the disaster might have been prevented
Islamic State militants beheaded one of Syria’s most prominent antiquities scholars in the ancient town of Palmyra, then hung his body from one of the town’s Roman columns, Syrian state
Germany’s parliament overwhelmingly approved a third bailout for Greece yesterday, removing a key hurdle to providing new loans to the country and keeping it from defaulting on its debts in as little
Hillary Rodham Clinton is opposing President Barack Obama’s authorization for oil drilling in the Alaska Arctic and his delays on the Keystone XL pipeline, in some of the clearest signs
The pictures, run by the Daily Mirror over 10 pages, show a topless Duchess of York and Mr Bryan embracing by a swimming pool in the south of France. Other photographs
Police in western Germany are looking for thieves who broke into a store selling alcohol and stole the caps off 1,200 bottles of beer — presumably to collect points for
A study at 10 Los Angeles high schools links e-cigarettes with later tobacco use. University of Southern California researchers found that 14-year-olds who’d ever tried e-cigarettes were more likely than others
SRI LANKA With election results still incomplete, Sri Lanka’s prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe declares victory over the country’s former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was seeking a political comeback eight months
The Museum of the Bible, now under construction in Washington, will feature ancient artifacts and treasures from the Holy Land under a new deal with the Israel Antiquities Authority. An agreement
Now that federal investigators have Hillary Rodham Clinton’s homebrew email server, they could examine files on her machine that would be more revelatory than the emails themselves. Clinton last week handed
A Russian court on Monday awarded symbolic damages of one ruble (USD0.01) to a former “Kremlin troll” who sued her ex-employer and demanded closure of what she describes as a
Six Syrian migrants, including an infant, drowned off the Turkish coast yesterday as they tried to reach a Greek island, a rescuer said, underscoring the deadly risks taken by migrants
Mr Gorbachev is reported to be under house arrest at his holiday home in the Crimea. News of the coup was broken in an announcement on state radio earlier on Monday. It
A group that advocates the separation of church and state has filed a complaint about a Texas judge who ordered a man to marry his girlfriend as a condition of
Police have arrested a 30-year-old man in connection with the fatal stabbing of actor Morgan Freeman’s step-granddaughter on a Manhattan street. Lamar Davenport, of New York City, was charged with second-degree
THAILAND A bomb exploded at a popular shrine near a key political protest site in central Bangkok yesterday evening, the government said, reportedly killing more than a dozen people and
St. Paul’s School boasts a glittering roster of alumni that includes senators, congressmen, a Nobel laureate and the current secretary of state. The elite prep school also allegedly has a
Brazilians took to the streets of cities and towns across the country Sunday (yesterday, Macau time) for anti-government protests being watched as a barometer of discontent with the increasingly unpopular
The new owner is Isle of Man-based property tycoon and former footballer, Michael Knighton. Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards is to receive more than £10m for his majority share in the
Many Taiwanese think that the public mailboxes resemble faces, and this side-by-side pair — one green and one red — now looks especially cute because their poles are bent in
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