Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2017 | 12:00 AM
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC):Hurricane Irma was moving towards the Virgin Islands after pounding the British Overseas Territory Anguilla and St Martin as it makes its way through the Lesser Antilles yesterday.The authorities in St Barthelemy and St...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2017 | 11:36 AM
MOSCOW (AP) -- A Moscow court yesterday ruled in favour of a flight attendant who said Russia's flagship airline stopped assigning her to work long-haul international flights because of her weight.The Moscow City Court overturned a ruling by a...
WASHINGTON (AP):President Donald Trump's administration will "wind down" a programme protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as...
SAN JUAN (AP):Hurricane Irma grew into a dangerous Category 5 storm, the most powerful seen in the Atlantic in over a decade, and roared towards islands in the northeast Caribbean yesterday on a path that could eventually take it to the United...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Residents in the Windward Islands – Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines – were being urged to follow the path of Tropical Storm Jose as the 10th tropical storm of the 2017...
WASHINGTON (AP): United States President Donald Trump's administration will "wind down" a program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children, Attorney General Jeff...
NEW YORK (AP):UN Security Council members called for further sanctions against North Korea yesterday after a powerful nuclear test explosion added another layer of urgency for diplomats wrestling with what to do about the North's persistent weapons...
NEW YORK (AP):The United States said yesterday it would target countries doing business with North Korea as UN Security Council members called for further sanctions in response to the regime's...
LONDON (AP):Prince William and his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, will soon welcome a third child to the royal nursery.Kensington Palace officials announced yesterday that the former Kate...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP): When Cambodia's main opposition leader was arrested over the weekend in a surprise police raid, one of the country's last independent media outlets rushed reporters out in the middle of night to cover the story,...
PHILADELPHIA (AP):A former Temple University student was charged on Sunday with murder following the disappearance of a current student whose remains authorities believe were those investigators found this weekend on property linked to the suspect....
WASHINGTON (AP):North Korea on Sunday claimed a "perfect success" for its most powerful nuclear test so far, a further step in the development of weapons capable of striking anywhere in the United...
HOUSTON (AP):Worshippers and relief workers yesterday paused from their chores across South Texas to seek God's favour as the area rebuilds.Hurricane Harvey hit the region with high winds on August 25 and then dumped more than four feet of rain in...
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP):The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday temporarily paused the murder trial of a white police officer accused of killing a black man as it considers a defence request to...
COLOMBO (AP):Sri Lanka's president on Sunday vowed to protect his former ambassador to six South American nations, an ex-army chief accused of crimes in the bloody final phase of the country's civil...
HOUSTON (AP):Authorities went door to door Sunday in parts of storm-battered Houston, warning that more flooding was coming, while a nearby city that lost its drinking-water system struggled to restore service and officials kept watch on a crippled...
LOS ANGELES (AP):Ash rained down across Los Angeles Sunday from a destructive wildfire that the mayor said was the largest in city history one of several blazes that sent thousands fleeing homes across the US West during a blistering holiday...
HOUSTON (AP):Harvey did not discriminate in its destruction. It raged through neighbourhoods rich and poor, black and white, upscale and working-class. Across Houston and surrounding communities, no group sidestepped its paralyzing deluges and...
BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev (AP):A man rescued from the flames at the Burning Man festival's signature burning of a towering effigy has been airlifted to a hospital.Burning Man organizers say the counterculture festival attendee broke through safety...
HOUSTON (AP) -- A city that lost its drinking water system is struggling to restore service and a crippled chemical plant that twice has been the scene of explosions remains a concern nine days after Harvey ripped across Texas. Officials in...
HOUSTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump cupped a boy's face in his hands and then gave him a high-five. He snapped on latex gloves to hand out boxed lunches of hot dogs and potato chips. And he loaded relief supplies into vehicles, patted storm...
WARRI, (AP) -- Nigeria's president says more than 100,000 people have been displaced by flooding in the central part of the country. It is not immediately known whether anyone has died in the flooding in Benue state.President Muhammadu Buhari says...
BERLIN (AP) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her centre-left rival, Martin Schulz, are preparing for their only televised debate today before the September 24 election following a campaign that so far has lacked a head-to-head showdown between...
CARACAS, (AP) -- Prominent Venezuelan opposition activist Lilian Tintori says she has been barred from leaving the country for planned meetings with leaders from France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom.Tintori posted a photo on Twitter of...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenya's president promised yesterday to "fix" the judicial system a day after the Supreme Court nullified his re-election, and he warned the chief justice and judiciary not to interfere with the electoral commission as the...
