Published:Wednesday | September 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP):The strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in over 80 years destroyed hundreds of homes, knocked out power across the entire island, and triggered heavy flooding yesterday in an...
Published:Wednesday | September 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP):A call to honour a black Civil War hero with a monument at the South Carolina Statehouse grounds, the 2015 epicentre of a national move to strip away Confederate...
Published:Wednesday | September 20, 2017 | 5:10 PM
MEXICO CITY (AP):The wiggling fingers of a young girl trapped in the rubble of her collapsed school in Mexico City raised hopes among hundreds of rescuers working furiously yesterday to try to free her a drama that played out at dozens of buildings...
Published:Wednesday | September 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC: A state of emergency has been declared in Dominica following the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria. In a statement on Wednesday, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said the Commonwealth of Dominica is still isolated...
Published:Wednesday | September 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): One of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit Puerto Rico pummelled the island Wednesday, tearing off roofs and sending doors flying from hinges as officials warned Hurricane Maria would decimate the power company's...
Published:Wednesday | September 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
MEXICO CITY (AP): Rescuers said Wednesday they have found a surviving child in the ruins of a school that collapsed in Mexico's magnitude 7.1 earthquake, one of many efforts across the city to save people trapped in or under schools, homes and...
MEXICO CITY (AP):A magnitude 7.1 earthquake stunned central Mexico yesterday, killing at least 104 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust. Thousands fled into the streets in panic, and many stayed to help rescue those trapped.Scores of...
ROSEAU (AP):Dominica's leader sent out an emotional plea for help as Hurricane Maria smashed into the Caribbean island and caused "mind-boggling" devastation, but an ominous silence followed as the...
MEXICO CITY (AP) : The governor of the central Mexican state of Morelos says at least 42 people have died as a result of the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that shook the country. Governor Graco Ramirez says that 12 of the dead were in the city...
MEXICO CITY (AP): A powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, cracking building facades and scattering rubble on streets in the capital on the anniversary of a devastating 1985 quake. The quake caused buildings to sway sickeningly in...
NEW YORK (AP):A charter bus owned by a company with a record of safety problems barreled through an intersection, slammed into a city bus and then plowed across a sidewalk and into a building yesterday, killing three people.The wreck, which was...
UN says one peacekeeper killed, one injuredKINSHASA (AP):The United Nations mission in Congo says a peacekeeper has been killed amid fighting in Beni territory in the country's North Kivu province.The mission said yesterday that the Tanzanian...
Senate GOP musters final push to erase ObamacareWASHINGTON (AP):Senate Republicans revved up a final push Monday to scuttle President Barack Obama's health care law, an effort that faces low odds of success and just a two-week window to pass. Adding...
MIAMI (AP): Hurricane Maria has intensified into a dangerous Category 4 storm as it bears down on the Caribbean. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Monday the storm is growing in strength as it approaches land. The eye of the storm is...
MIAMI (AP: Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina is cancelling his speech before the UN General Assembly so that he can return home and coordinate preparations for Hurricane Maria. Medina said in a video announcement that he wants to be in...
THE VOICE (UK): Tanzanian police have confirmed to British media outlets that they arrested 20 people over the weekend, who are accused of being homosexual; a crime that has the potential to carry the punishment of life imprisonment in the...
MIAMI (AP): The National Hurricane Center in Miami says that Hurricane Maria has strengthened to a Category 3 storm as it headed towards the Caribbean. Maria on Monday was "rapidly" intensifying into a major hurricane. The eye is expected...
SOMERSET, N.J. (AP):President Donald Trump on yesterday mocked the leader of nuclear-armed North Korea as "Rocket Man" while White House advisers said the isolated nation would face destruction unless it shelves its weapons programs and bellicose...
LONDON (AP):British police made progress yesterday in their investigation of the bomb that partially exploded on a packed London subway, leading counterterrorism officials to lower the country's threat level because a fresh attack no longer was...
PARIS (AP):Four young American tourists were attacked with acid yesterday at a train station in the French city of Marseille and a 41-year-old woman has been arrested as their alleged assailant, the Marseille prosecutor's office said.Two of the...
NEW YORK (AP):The Trump administration is considering closing down the recently reopened US Embassy in Havana following a string of unexplained incidents harming the health of American diplomats in Cuba, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said...
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Protests turned violent for a second night near St. Louis following the acquittal of a white former police officer in the fatal shooting of a black man, as a small group of demonstrators refused to disperse, breaking windows at...
LONDON (AP) -- The British government lowered the country's official terrorist threat level Sunday after a second man was arrested in connection with the attack on a London subway train where a bomb partially exploded. The downgrading of the...
Published:Saturday | September 16, 2017 | 12:00 AM
LONDON (AP):British police made a "significant" arrest yesterday in the manhunt for suspects a day after the London subway was hit by a partially exploded bomb and launched a heavily armed search of a home southwest of London.The fast-moving enquiry...
Published:Saturday | September 16, 2017 | 12:00 AM
MIAMI (AP):The hurricane season is roaring on as Tropical Storm Lee forms far from land, Jose threatens the US East Coast and Norma moves closer to Mexico.Norma is expected to pass near the resort-studded southern tip of Mexico's Baja California...
