RALEIGH, NC (AP):North Carolina rolled back its "bathroom bill" yesterday in a bid to end the yearlong backlash over transgender rights that has cost the state dearly in business projects,...
WARRI (AP):A Nigerian official says a meningitis strain new to the West African nation has killed 282 people and infected nearly 2,000 amid a shortage of vaccines.Chikwe Ihekweazu is in charge of the...
SEOUL (AP):South Korea's disgraced former President Park Geun-hye was arrested and jailed on Friday over high-profile corruption allegations that already ended her tumultuous four-year rule and prompted an election to find her successor.Prosecutors...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Retired star gymnasts testified before Congress yesterday that they were sexually abused by a former USA Gymnastics doctor and recommended a bill that requires tougher sex-abuse reporting for Olympic sports.Jamie...
LONDON (AP):The wife of the man who killed four people outside Britain's Parliament last week condemned the attack yesterday, saying she is "saddened and shocked"."I express my condolences to...
LONDON (AP):Prime Minister Theresa May says she will enter European Union (EU) exit talks representing everyone in Britain - including millions of EU nationals living in the UK.May plans to ask the EU for a divorce...
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP):Lithuanian police say a 26-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of shooting dead his parents, grandmother and uncle, and wounding his grandfather.The shootings are believed...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP):About 50 farmers and activists opposed to a cement factory in Indonesia's Central Java province have encased their feet in concrete during a days-long protest in Jakarta, the capital.Farmers in the village of Kendeng have...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP): The world's largest humanitarian crisis in 70 years has been declared in three African countries on the brink of famine, just as President Donald Trump's proposed foreign aid cuts threaten to pull the United States (US...
WASHINGTON (AP):President Donald Trump is establishing a new White House office run by his son-in-law that will seek to overhaul government functions using ideas from the business sector.White House spokesman Sean Spicer said yesterday that Trump...
YOLA (AP):A former Nigerian governor sentenced to five years in jail for corruption has been granted bail to seek medical care after just 20 days in prison.Bala James Ngilari of north-eastern Adamawa state was...
NEW YORK (AP):Mayor Bill de Blasio has decided that the globally popular statue of a young girl staring down Wall Street's famous 'Charging Bull' will remain in place through to...
LONDON (AP):Police have found no evidence that the man who killed four people in London last week was associated with the Islamic State group or al-Qaida, a senior British counterterrorism...
JACKSONVILLE, Fl (AP):Federal prosecutors say a north-east Florida woman has pleaded guilty to smuggling a Mexican woman into the US as a pregnancy surrogate and instead forced her into domestic labor...
CAIRO (AP):An Egyptian court sentenced 56 defendants Sunday in the case of a boat carrying migrants that capsized off the coastal city of Rosetta in September, killing more than 200 people.The defendants, who faced charges including involuntary...
NAIROBI (AP):Six aid workers were ambushed and killed in South Sudan, the deadliest attack on humanitarian workers since the East African nation's civil war began in 2013.The attack took place on Saturday on the...
DEAD SEA (AP):The Arab League chief says 29 per cent youth unemployment is one of the region's biggest challenges.Ahmed Aboul-Gheit spoke Sunday, ahead of a summit of Arab leaders later in the week. He told economic ministers from the region that...
BEIJING (AP):An academic at an Australian university has been prevented by Chinese authorities from returning to Sydney because he's suspected of endangering national security, his lawyer said Sunday.Border officials at an airport in the southern...
BERLIN (AP):Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party easily won an election in Germany's western Saarland state on Sunday, an unexpectedly strong performance as Merkel prepares to seek a fourth term in a national vote later this year.The...
BAIDOA, Somalia (AP) -- An emaciated woman writhes on her hospital bed, weakly waving her bony hand to create a current of air. Cholera patient Zeinab Hussein, a 50-year-old farmer, is one of thousands of desperate Somalis who have streamed into...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Sunday attacked conservative lawmakers for the failure of the Republican bill to replace Barack Obama's health care law as his aides pledged to court moderate Democrats on upcoming initiatives from...
MOSCOW (AP) -- Thousands of people crowded into Moscow's Pushkin Square on Sunday for an unsanctioned protest against the Russian government, the biggest gathering in a wave of nationwide protests that were the most extensive show of defiance...
DENVER (AP):Colorado is considering an unusual strategy to protect its nascent marijuana industry from a potential federal crackdown, even at the expense of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax collections.A bill pending in the Legislature would...
Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo called the declaration signed yesterday by European Union (EU) leaders in Rome a "first step towards renewing the unity of the EU".Szydlo spoke at a news conference in Rome after she and 26 other European leaders...
BEIRUT (AP) -- Warplanes struck rebel-held parts of Syria yesterday hitting a women's prison and a clinic, killing and wounding scores of people, amid clashes on multiple fronts between government forces and insurgent groups in some of the worst...
