LAS VEGAS (AP):A gunman perched on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel-casino unleashed a hail of bullets on an outdoor country music festival below, killing at least 58 people as tens of thousands of concertgoers screamed and ran for their lives,...
STOCKHOLM (AP):At a Rockefeller University news conference in New York, Nobel Prize winner Michael Young said the news of the award came as a shock.He says "This really did take me by surprise. I had...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP):High-ranking Mormon leaders condemned racism twice during the religion's conference.M. Russell Ballard of a top governing body, called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, said in a speech Sunday that people need to "embrace God's...
STOCKHOLM (AP): Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries about the body's biological clock, opening up whole new fields of research and raising awareness about the importance of getting...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP):Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau says more than 800 people have been injured in Catalonia in clashes with Spanish police trying to prevent a referendum on independence from taking place in the...
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (AP:)The Coast Guard says the primary cause of the sinking of a cargo ship two years ago that killed all 33 aboard was the captain misreading both the strength of a...
HOUSTON (AP):It has been a month since Hurricane Harvey brought devastating wind and flooding to the Texas coast and Houston area, and while the water has receded and businesses have reopened, huge debris piles in front of thousands of homes serve...
DETROIT (AP):When football players kneel during the national anthem, Mark Clague sees the continuation of a tradition as old as the song itself.The University of Michigan musicology...
The Islamic State group is claiming links to a knife attack in the southern French city of Marseille that left two women and the assailant dead. The claim was carried in a statement Sunday night by the IS-affiliated Aamaq news agency. It said the...
MARSEILLE, France (AP) — A man with a knife attacked people at the main train station in the southeastern French city of Marseille on Sunday, killing two women before soldiers fatally shot the assailant, officials said. French police warned...
Published:Saturday | September 30, 2017 | 12:00 AM
BARCELONA (AP):Catalonian separatists yesterday ignored a police ultimatum to leave the schools they are occupying to use in a vote seeking independence from Spain.As police methodically sealed off hundreds of schools, some parents decided to send...
Published:Saturday | September 30, 2017 | 12:00 AM
UNITED STATES SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A top Mormon leader yesterday reaffirmed the religion's opposition to same-sex marriage during a church conference watched by members around the world....
Published:Saturday | September 30, 2017 | 12:00 AM
BRANCHBURG, NJ (AP):President Donald Trump yesterday lashed out at the mayor of San Juan and other officials in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, contemptuous of their claims of a laggard US response to the natural disaster that has rocked the island."Such...
Published:Saturday | September 30, 2017 | 12:00 AM
MEXICO CITY (AP):The death toll from Mexico's magnitude 7.1 earthquake has risen by two and now stands at 360.It includes 219 deaths in Mexico City, where 38 buildings collapsed during the temblor.The rest of the casualties came in five states near...
Published:Saturday | September 30, 2017 | 12:00 AM
BERLIN (AP):Almost 40 years after their first kiss, Karl and Bodo are getting hitched.The two male civil servants from Berlin are expected to become the first gay couple to tie the knot in Germany when a law allowing same-sex marriages takes effect...
KARANGASEM (AP):Bali's gently lowing cows, prised for their hardiness and doe-like temperament, won't become victims of the tropical island's menacing Mount Agung volcano if villager Wayan...
STAVANGER (AP):The Nobel Peace Prize does more than recognise the past achievements of individuals. By honouring causes and movements, the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee often is encouraging future work toward peace.But promising initiatives...
WASHINGTON (AP):President Donald Trump pledged to help Puerto Ricans recover basic necessities and security in Maria's ruinous aftermath as his homeland security chief tried to escape a...
WASHINGTON (AP): The United States is warning Americans against visiting Cuba and ordering more than half of its Havana embassy personnel to leave the island, senior officials said Friday in a dramatic response to what they described as targeted...
Published:Thursday | September 28, 2017 | 10:50 AM
European Union leaders to look at vision for post-Brexit futureTALLINN (AP):The European Union will be looking beyond its impending break-up with Britain at how to build a common future with the 27 nations remaining in the bloc during a two-day...
Published:Thursday | September 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM
MEXICO CITY (AP):A tree branch saved a maintenance mechanic from the collapsing building where a dozen co-workers died when last week's earthquake rocked central Mexico. A slap across the face startled a dazed father back to his senses, spurring him...
Published:Thursday | September 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP):On a May morning in 1990, Marlene Warren answered her front door in an upscale Florida suburb to find a clown in an orange wig, red nose and white face paint, handing her...
Hugh Hefner, American founder of the international adult magazine Playboy, has died at the age of 91. Hefner reportedly passed away peacefully at home in Los Angeles, from natural causes. Hefner began publishing Playboy in his kitchen in 1953...
Published:Wednesday | September 27, 2017 | 12:00 AM
BALI (AP):Warnings that the Mount Agung volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali will erupt have sparked an exodus of nearly 100,000 people that is likely to continue to swell.Images from the...
Published:Wednesday | September 27, 2017 | 12:00 AM
HOUSTON, Missouri (AP):Some of Ally Lee Steinfeld's burnt remains were found in a bag in a rural southern Missouri chicken coop. Authorities say both of the transgender teen's eyes had been...
