Iraq’s parliament agreed to postpone a vote for a new president by a day yesterday as the extremist Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Baghdad the
Giving the judgement to a packed and hushed courtroom, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger said the court rejected Mr Nixon’s claims of executive privilege. Instead, he said they “must yield to
Parts of a northern Chinese city have been quarantined after state media said a man there died of bubonic plague. China’s official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday that 151 people
FRANCE The collision of a truck and a minibus near the northeastern French city of Troyes has left six people dead, including five children. French President Francois Hollande issued a
Former President Bill Clinton says he doesn’t know if his wife, Hillary, is going to run for president and said “she hasn’t asked me yet.” In a CNN interview broadcast from
Firefighters and local authorities are heartened by weather forecasts that call for continued cooler temperatures and higher humidity as they battle a destructive wildfire that has charred hundreds of square
Protesters marched on the Russian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, waving placards and demanding justice for victims of the Malaysia Airlines flight that was shot down over Ukraine last week. Several
Russian news consumers are getting plenty of explanations for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which killed 298 people. While they vary wildly in content, all point the finger
Bowing to international pressure, pro-Moscow separatists released a train packed with bodies and handed over the black boxes from the downed Malaysia Airlines plane, four days after it plunged into rebel-held
Bosnian Serbs have controlled access to Sarajevo for three years, killing dozens of people along the 11-mile Mount Igman trail - the only route into and out of the city. The
Nelson Mandela had a way with words, but not quite like this. Cyclists traversing Johannesburg in the former South African president’s honor wore T-shirts with one of his many inspiring quotations,
CHINA A man with a kitchen knife killed a 1-year-old boy and injured two other children in the southern Chinese city of Zhongshan near Hong Kong CHINA McDonald’s and KFC in
Court documents show Philip Seymour Hoffman rejected his accountant’s suggestion he set aside money for his three children because he didn’t want them to be “trust fund” kids. The New
In his best-known roles, Garner portrayed winsomely human versions of the Old West con man and the determined gumshoe. An unlikely star, Garner said he dreaded public speaking and never
Shark T-shirts are everywhere, “Jaws” has been playing in local movie theaters and boats are taking more tourists out to see the huge seal population that keeps the sharks coming.
For the millions of Muslims abstaining from food and drink from sunrise to sunset every day during Islam’s holiest month of Ramadan, that first sip of water after a grueling
The U.N. Security Council will vote Monday on an Australia-proposed resolution demanding international access to the Ukraine plane crash site and a cease-fire around the area, with diplomats pressuring
The U.N. chief and the U.S. secretary of state headed to Cairo yesterday to try to end two weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting that has killed at least 508 Palestinians and
Mohammad Afif and his family were about to start a new chapter in their lives. Afif was getting set to begin his university studies in architecture, and his father was
The bodies of the two men were identified after 200 American soldiers, backed by helicopters, stormed a house in the northern city of Mosul following a tip-off from an Iraqi
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