Two migrants said they witnessed an Australian official hand cash to the crew of a people-smuggling boat to take its passengers back to Indonesia. The allegation of payments to people-smugglers has
The World Health Organization says the spread of a mysterious virus from the Middle East to South Korea doesn’t merit being declared a global emergency despite infecting more than 160 people in
North Korea says it has been hit by its worst drought in a century, resulting in extensive damage to agriculture. The official Korean Central News Agency said the drought has caused
A tiger that broke loose after severe flooding at the Tbilisi Zoo mauled a man to death yesterday before being shot by police. The Interior Ministry in the former Soviet republic
A teen who lost an arm after a shark attack in North Carolina says he felt the big fish before he saw it and didn’t realize what it was until
A group of Irish and Irish-American young men and women were enjoying their last blast summer in California before cracking down with college and careers, a rite of passage tens
More than 4,000 people took to the streets of London in protest at the burden of debt owed by the world’s poorest countries to the Group of Eight nations. They
It’s another thing entirely to win a game you’ve never played before. Christian Pham, a Vietnmaese immigrant living in St. Paul, Minnesota, did exactly that Thursday, rising to the top
Banks in Switzerland have reported 53 possible acts of money-laundering in the investigation of FIFA’s 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding contests, the country’s attorney-general said yesterday. Michael Lauber said the
The questions come less often, largely because the story is getting old. Or maybe it’s just that no one really believes anymore, even Tiger Woods himself. The downfall of the greatest
A dominant performance full of goals was exactly what Brazil’s under-20 football side needed ahead of Saturday’s final. The five-time champions thrashed Senegal 5-0 yesterday to go into the championship
Even if FIFA scandals were not placing Russia’s right to host the 2018 World Cup under scrutiny, Russian football would still be in crisis. National team coach Fabio Capello is
One reason European Union officials are allowing Greece to toddle dangerously close to the cliff top of exiting the euro is their oft-asserted belief that the situation is ring-fenced. A Greek default
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China UnionPay Co. acquired a stake in Hong Kong’s Joint Electronic Teller Services Ltd. as the bank-card payments processor seeks a greater presence outside the mainland. UnionPay has become a
Anti-Semitic propaganda had a life long effect on German children schooled during the Nazi period, leaving them far more likely to harbor negative views of Jews than those born earlier
NEPAL Avalanches in Nepal’s northern mountains injure five army rescuers and force the suspension of a search for bodies in a trekking village that was buried during April’s devastating earthquake. BANGLADESH’s
Chief Executive Chui Sai On has pledged to protect the government’s social welfare packages in order to safeguard residents’ initiatives from being impacted by the economic downturn caused by shrinking
The consul general of Mozambique to Macau, Rafael Custódio Marques, believes that Forum Macau’s purposes and activities need to be further promoted within Portuguese-speaking countries. On the sidelines of a press
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