WICHITA, Kansas (AP):Several churches in Kansas in the United States are trying to meet the needs of people struggling emotionally this holiday season by offering 'Blue Christmas' worship services.Blue...
Jamaica is among 35 countries that abstained from the vote at the UN General Assembly on Thursday on a non-binding resolution declaring as "null and void", President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
GENEVA (AP): The Swiss division of J.P. Morgan "seriously breached" anti-money laundering rules relating to the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, Switzerland's financial market regulator said Thursday. The agency, FINMA, said the...
Published:Wednesday | December 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
LEAD, South Dakota, (AP):For five decades, the Sternhagen family, led by patriarch Jim Sternhagen, have scouted, sawed, and celebrated their annual Christmas tree find by donating the mostly large-scale, towering specimen to the Shepherd of the...
Published:Wednesday | December 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
MOSCOW (AP):President Vladimir Putin says Russian security agencies have thwarted 60 terror attacks in the country this year.Russia marked its Day of Employees of State Security Agencies on Wednesday. Speaking to intelligence officers on their...
Published:Wednesday | December 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
VATICAN CITY (AP):Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failure to stop child molesters in the priesthood triggered the worst crisis in American Catholicism...
Published:Wednesday | December 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
SAO PAULO (AP):A former mayor and governor of Sao Paulo state has turned himself in to Brazilian police to begin serving a nearly eight-year sentence for money laundering.Paulo Maluf surrendered yesterday...
Published:Wednesday | December 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
CANCUN, Mexico (AP):Eight Americans, two Swedes and one Canadian were among the fatalities of a bus crash in eastern Mexico, state officials said yesterday.The Quintana Roo state government said in a...
Published:Wednesday | December 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
BARCELONA, Spain (AP): Ride-hailing service Uber suffered a new blow Wednesday as the European Union's top court ruled that it should be regulated like a taxi company and not a technology service, a decision that crimps its activities around...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP):The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Shiite rebels said it intercepted a missile fired over southern Riyadh yesterday, which the rebels said was targeting a "top...
ROME (AP):Rome's official Christmas tree is shedding needles so quickly that it has become a jolly joke for city residents.The 21-meter- (70-foot-) high tree, which was lit up on December 8, started dropping needles at a fast clip as soon as it was...
TEGUCIGALPA (AP):Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez called on the country's leaders yesterday to accept his disputed re-election and bring peace to the divided country, even as his challenger said...
SAO PAULO (AP):One of the most prominent people convicted in Latin America's largest corruption scandal left prison yesterday for house arrest after serving two-and-a-half years behind bars at a time when many Brazilians are becoming disillusioned...
DUPONT, Washington (AP):The Amtrak train that careened off an overpass south of Seattle, killing at least three people, was hurtling 50 mph over the speed limit when it jumped the track,...
MEXICO CITY (AP):At least 12 people died when a bus carrying cruise ship passengers to Mayan ruins in eastern Mexico flipped over on a highway early yesterday, officials said.Seven Americans and two Swedes were among the injured, Quintana Roo state...
DADAAB, Kenya (AP):The world must do more to help millions of refugees across Sub-saharan Africa, which hosts more than a quarter of the world's refugees, the United Nations said yesterday.UN...
DUPONT, Washington (AP):An Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtled off an overpass yesterday near Tacoma and spilt some of its cars on to the highway below, killing at least six people, authorities said.Seventy-eight...
TACOMA, Washington (AP): Authorities say multiple people were killed when an Amtrak passenger train derailed on to Interstate 5 south of Seattle. Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer says none of the fatalities were motorists who were in...
WASHINGTON (AP):An American soldier killed in an ambush in Niger with three comrades but whose body was recovered days later, wasn't captured alive by the enemy or executed at close range, The Associated Press has learned, based on the conclusion of...
MOSCOW (AP):Russian President Vladimir Putin telephoned US President Donald Trump Sunday to thank him for a CIA tip that helped thwart a series of bombings inSt Petersburg, the Kremlin said.During the call, the two leaders' second in three days,...
VATICAN CITY (AP):Pope Francis has blown out his birthday candle on an extra-long pizza at the Vatican to the delight of children.Francis, who turned 81 yesterday, then told the children, who use a Vatican health service, to "eat all four meters (13...
NEW YORK (AP):Health leaders say they are alarmed about a report that officials at the top United States public health agency are being told not to use certain words or phrases in official...
MONTECITO, California (AP):Firefighters trying to prevent one of the biggest fires in California's history from consuming homes in Santa Barbara and the nearby wealthy enclave of Montecito...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP):A recycled SpaceX capsule is back at the International Space Station, just in time for Christmas.NASA astronauts used the space station's big robot arm to grab the Dragon...
QUETTA (AP):Two suicide bombers struck a church in Pakistan yesterday, killing nine people and wounding more than 50 others, authorities said, in the first attack on a church claimed by the country...
