Relatives of two Australian death row prisoners made their first visit yesterday to the Indonesian prison island where the convicted drug traffickers are to be executed soon by firing squads. The
The number of deaths in jetliner disasters spiked last year despite there being fewer accidents in total, an international airline industry group said yesterday. The International Air Transport Association said in
South Korea’s president visited injured U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert yesterday amid an outpouring of public sympathy and support for the envoy, who is recovering from an attack by a knife-wielding
Five people were killed in their homes yesterday in a stabbing spree in rural Japan, police said, in a rare case of major violence in the country. A 40-year-old neighbor of
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday on a visit to Japan, where bitter disputes mark the country’s attempts to define its wartime actions, that Germany was able to return to
A Swiss solar-powered plane took off from Abu Dhabi early yesterday, marking the start of the first attempt to fly around the world without a drop of fuel. Solar Impulse founder
Forces from Chad and Niger opened a new front in the regional military fight against the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, as army vehicles full of soldiers crossed the border into northeast
The Prince of Wales has narrowly avoided death on the ski slopes of Switzerland in an avalanche that killed one of his closest friends. Major Hugh Lindsay, former equerry to the
"Jewelry has a long tradition in the Italian aesthetic culture; its name represents quality, style, creativity, technology and above all the pursuit of elegance, glamor and artistry," Italian trade commissioner
This Chihuahua could be headed to the dog house. Transportation Security Administration officers say a woman’s 7-year-old Chihuahua sneaked into her suitcase and triggered a luggage screening alert at New York’s
No competition is more important for Real Madrid than the Champions League, and the squad will hope to ease recent doubts about its winning mindset when it hosts Schalke at
England’s forgettable World Cup is all but over after a 15-run loss to a Bangladesh lineup destined to become stars in their homeland after reaching the quarterfinals for the first
As International Women’s Day approached, the number of speeches concerning gender inequality inevitably grew. American actress Patricia Arquette called for wage equality “once and for all,” upon receiving an Academy
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Officials said Friday that climbers have found a second mummified body in a glacier on Mexico’s tallest peak, and said they may be the remains of climbers missing since a
When his dog Mica suffered a spinal injury, Dragan Dimitrijevic made her a wheelchair, using small wheels, plastic pipes and old belts. It worked: the foxy- looking mongrel was back in
CHINA-JAPAN China’s foreign minister has renewed calls for Japanese leaders to abandon any attempt to water down the nation’s guilt over its World War II aggression against China and others. CHINA
A Macau Prison (EPM) chief officer has been taken into custody after the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) found strong evidence that he had been taking bribes from an inmate. In a
Las Vegas Sands Corp., grappling with a gambling slowdown in Macau may be reconsidering big-ticket entertainment events. Betting in Macau has fallen for nine months as a crackdown on corruption by
The migrant smuggling boat that capsized off the shores of Macau on Feb 27 may have served as a clue in the discovery by Guangdong Police of a radical Uighur
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