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With Europe on edge, soldiers fanned out to guard possible terror targets in Belgium Saturday while police in Greece detained at least two suspects as part of a widening counterterrorism dragnet across
Following her win, Mrs Gandhi pledged herself to serve the Congress Party and the country, and said she would “strive to create what my father used to call a climate
Now that’s a special delivery! A group of real estate agents meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan, surprised a man by giving him a USD2,084 tip for delivering one pizza Thursday. The
A cash-strapped division of casino giant Caesars Entertainment Corp. said yesterday that it filed for bankruptcy protection in Chicago, hoping the court agrees to its plan to get out from
CHINA Thirty-two officials in far-western China have been punished over alleged bribe-taking, nepotism or other wrongdoing in the choosing of people for over-subscribed Muslim pilgrimages to the holy city of
Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremist group, is increasing the ferocity and tempo of its attacks, destabilizing Africa’s most populous nation as it prepares for elections. Girls as young as 10 are being
A 20-year-old man’s Twitter posts sympathizing with Islamic terrorists led to an undercover FBI operation and the man’s arrest on charges that he plotted to blow up the U.S. Capitol
Eyewitnesses said they had heard gunfire for about an hour around the president’s hilltop home in Kinshasa, known as the Marble Palace and usually heavily guarded by soldiers and a
Two extravagant comedies, “Birdman” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” tied for the most Oscar nominations yesterday with nine nods each, including best picture. They were joined in best-picture nominations by “Boyhood,”
A pro-secular Turkish newspaper says police stopped trucks as they left its printing center to check the paper’s content after it decided to print a selection of Charlie Hebdo caricatures. Cumhuriyet
CHINA Shanghai police detain nine terror suspects from an ethnic minority in western China plus 10 Turkish people accused of helping them in an attempt to illegally travel abroad, including
The Oscar-winning filmmaker will write and direct all of the episodes of the half-hour series. A full season has been ordered for Amazon’s Prime Instant Video, the company announced yesterday.
Charlie Hebdo’s defiant new issue sold out before dawn around Paris yesterday, with scuffles at kiosks over dwindling copies of the paper fronting the Prophet Muhammad. In the city still
Several officers, including the Christian Democratic Foreign Minister, Georg Dertinger, and a number of Jewish politicians, have either been removed or have disappeared in the past few days. The arrests follow
Former Arkansas Gov. and possible presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has accused President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, of double standards in parenting, saying in an interview published Tuesday that
CHINA Exports rebounded in December but imports shrank in a sign of weak domestic demand. Total trade in 2014 grew just 3.4 percent, well below the official 10 percent target. PAKISTAN
The accounts were given by villagers who fled the carnage in and around Baga, a town in Borno state that lies in the northeastern corner of Nigeria near the border
Hackers supporting Islamic militants took over the Twitter and YouTube accounts of a major U.S. military command Monday (yesterday in Macau), in what the Pentagon called an annoying prank that
Egyptian authorities have exhausted all legal grounds to keep deposed President Hosni Mubarak in detention after an appeals court yesterday ordered his retrial in a corruption case, a judicial official
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