NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP):Police have released the name of a woman who was fatally shot by a suspect at a church in Tennessee.Metropolitan Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron says 39-year-old Melanie Smith of Smyrna,...
BERLIN (AP):German Chancellor Angela Merkel won a fourth term on Sunday, but now faces the tricky prospect of forming a coalition with two disparate new partners after voters weakened her conservatives and a nationalist, anti-migrant party surged...
MEXICO CITY (AP):Five days after the deadly magnitude 7.1 earthquake, the hulking wreckage of what used to be a seven-story office building is one of the last hopes: one of just two sites left where searchers...
BERLIN (AP): Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc was on course today for a lackluster victory in Germany's national election while the anti-migrant Alternative for Germany party was heading for a triumphant entry into...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is expected to announce new restrictions on travel to the United States as his ban on visitors from six Muslim-majority countries expires Sunday, 90 days after it went into effect. The Department of...
Published:Saturday | September 23, 2017 | 12:00 AM
MEXICO CITY (AP):A strong new earthquake shook Mexico yesterday, toppling already damaged homes and a highway bridge and causing new alarm in a country reeling from two even more powerful quakes this month that together have killed nearly 400 people...
Published:Saturday | September 23, 2017 | 12:00 AM
A look at what didn't happen last weekA round-up of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out...
Published:Saturday | September 23, 2017 | 12:00 AM
MEXICO CITY (AP): A strong new earthquake shook Mexico on Saturday, toppling already damaged homes and a highway bridge and causing new alarm in a country reeling from two even more powerful quakes this month that together have killed nearly 400...
Published:Thursday | September 21, 2017 | 12:00 AM
UNITED NATIONS (AP):UN investigators will help Iraq collect evidence to build potential war crimes cases against Islamic State extremists, under a resolution the Security Council approved...
Published:Thursday | September 21, 2017 | 12:00 AM
LONDON (AP):Two of the six men arrested over last week's London subway bombing were released without charge yesterday, British police said. Four others remained in custody.One of those released is a 21...
Published:Thursday | September 21, 2017 | 12:00 AM
SAN JUAN (AP):Rescuers fanned out to reach stunned victims yesterday, and millions of Puerto Ricans faced the dispiriting prospect of weeks or even months without electricity after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island.Maria's death toll across the...
Published:Wednesday | September 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP):Oklahoma City police officers who opened fire on a man in front of his home as he approached them holding a metal pipe didn't hear witnesses yelling that he was deaf, a...
Published:Wednesday | September 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
CAIRO (AP):The United Nations has proposed a new approach to solve the Libyan crisis, by amending a current political agreement, holding a constitutional referendum and general elections.UN...
Published:Wednesday | September 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM
CAIRO (AP):The leader of Yemen's Shiite rebels has lashed out with a defiant speech on the eve of the third anniversary of the day his forces stormed into the capital.In a speech aired on the...
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...
