The explosion is suspected to have fractured a gas main and a fierce fire spread quickly through the centuries-old hall in one of Britain’s most closely-guarded buildings. Scotland Yard detectives have
Thousands of villagers are refusing to leave their homes on the slopes of one of Indonesia’s most volatile volcanoes despite warnings that it is poised for a powerful eruption. Mount Sinabung,
The Japanese government’s newfound embrace of international corporate governance standards has the potential to be an epochal moment for the country’s economy. Shareholders are now being encouraged to challenge Japanese CEOs, and companies
An elephant that escaped from a German circus and killed a man over the weekend has been relocated to a German safari park. The 34-year-old African elephant named “Baby” on
UK Amnesty International urged world leaders yesterday to radically overhaul refugee policies and create a comprehensive global strategy to deal with the crisis, describing it as the worst emergency of
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but suspicion quickly fell on Boko Haram, the group based in neighboring Nigeria that already has attacked Chadian villages along the lake that
The U.S military says it launched weekend airstrikes targeting and likely killing an al-Qaida-linked militant leader in eastern Libya charged with leading the attack on a gas plant in Algeria in 2013
President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan left South Africa with his plane scheduled to land back home yesterday night, Sudan’s official news agency said, as the leader dodged a South African court’s effort
The embattled archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis and a deputy bishop resigned yesterday after prosecutors there charged the archdiocese with having failed to protect children from unspeakable harm from
Jeb Bush was ready to launch a Republican presidential bid yesterday by asserting his commitment to the “most vulnerable in our society,” targeting the broader American electorate even as he
A controversial new book about the Princess of Wales claims she attempted suicide on several occasions over the last decade, and portrays her as a deeply depressed and unstable character. Author
An Austrian brothel is offering a summer special that competitors will find hard to match — free sex. Its owner says it’s his way of protesting a tax squeeze. “Effective immediately:
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is putting the finishing touches on his expected presidential campaign rollout, and took to Twitter yesterday to release a “Jeb! 2016” graphic in patriotic red
Tigers, lions, a hippopotamus and other animals escaped from the zoo in Georgia’s capital after heavy flooding destroyed their enclosures, prompting authorities to warn residents in Tbilisi to say inside
NORTH KOREA is accusing the U.S. of targeting it with anthrax and wants the U.N. Security Council to look into they called America’s “biological warfare schemes.” A letter from North
Six scientists who were living under a dome on the slopes of a dormant Hawaii volcano for eight months to simulate life on Mars have emerged from isolation. The crew stepped
Hillary Rodham Clinton formally opened her presidential bid with a deeply personal address that promised thousands of supporters gathered at a rally in New York City that she would champion “an economy
A South African judge has ordered authorities to prevent Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, from leaving the country because of an international order for his arrest, human rights activists said yesterday. It
China and Russia have decoded intelligence secrets contained in the cache of documents held by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, leading to British spies being recalled from dangerous postings, according to
A man planted pipe bombs outside Dallas police headquarters and sprayed the building with bullets from his parked van during a wild street battle early Saturday that authorities said miraculously
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