U.S. couple accused of enslaving Guinean girl for 16 y...
By Associated Press TEXAS: A suburban Fort Worth couple accused of enslaving a Guinean woman for 16 years has been indicte...Read More
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World
Air pressure mix-up causes mass bleeding on Indian fli...
By AFP A cockpit mix-up left more than 30 passengers on an Indian plane bleeding from their ears and noses Thursday after ...Read More
Ghost properties: cruel legacy of Venezuela’s mi...
By AFP Three years ago, asphyxiated by Venezuela’s economic meltdown, Francisco Rojas and his wife Elena packed up f...Read More
Pope Francis
Pope Francis: Sex a great gift from God
Pope Francis has told French young people that sex is a “great” gift from God, not a taboo, and should be live...Read More
Russian aircrew deaths: Putin and Netanyahu defuse ten...
The leaders of Russia and Israel have sought to defuse tension after a Russian plane was shot down by Syrian forces amid a...Read More
President Vladimir Putin
Russian opposition cries foul over ‘rigged’...
By AFP The Kremlin faced a fresh electoral crisis Monday as the opposition cried foul over a key regional poll, drawing cr...Read More
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May said she was focused on securing a Brexit deal rather than her own future
British PM ‘irritated’ by leadership speculation
By AFP British Prime Minister Theresa May said Sunday she was “irritated” by speculation about a leadership co...Read More
Dadarao Bilhore fills potholes out of love for dead son
Indian man fills potholes out of love for dead son
By AFP Dadarao Bilhore smoothes the road surface, rests his shovel, looks to the sky and prays for his son, one of thousan...Read More
‘Nowhere to worship’: Crackdown bedevils C...
By AFP A government sign outside a Catholic church in central China warns that children are not allowed to attend mass. &#...Read More
Pope Francis
Pope meets with US church leaders over clergy sex abus...
Pope Francis was set to host US bishops and cardinals on Thursday to discuss the Vatican’s response to a new wave of...Read More
French police detain 6 vegans suspected of butcher sho...
By AFP Six people were detained in northern France this week over a string of attacks on butcher and fish shops by vegan a...Read More
Snakes on a plate: Vietnam’s coiled cuisine
By AFP With their meat served up in a wide array of dishes and blood added to rice wine, snakes make a reputedly satisfyin...Read More
Trump to mark 17 years since September 11 at Pennsylva...
US President Donald Trump is marking 17 years since the worst terrorist attack on US soil by visiting the Pennsylvania fie...Read More
Donald Trump
US ‘threatens ICC judges with sanctions’ o...
THE United States has said it will adopt an aggressive posture against the International Criminal Court (ICC), and threate...Read More
Former UK foreign minister Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson’s Brexit ‘suicide vest’ comment sp...
By Associated Press LONDON: Former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has compared Prime Minister Theresa May’s pla...Read More
New iPhones aim for momentum in sputtering smartphone ...
By AFP Apple is set to unveil new iPhones, aiming to gain fresh momentum in the premium segment of a global smartphone mar...Read More
Former US president Barack Obama
Obama, on campaign swing, urges ‘sanity in our polit...
By Associated Press Former President Barack Obama said Saturday that November midterm elections would give Americans “a ...Read More
The Sun newspaper suggests that fresh revelations of Boris Johnson's infidelities could damage his chances of becoming leader of the Conservative party
Britain’s ex-foreign minister Boris Johnson spli...
By AFP Britain’s former foreign secretary Boris Johnson, who is tipped as a future prime minister, revealed Friday t...Read More
India Supreme Court legalises gay sex
India’s Supreme Court has ruled that a colonial-era law criminalising homosexual sex is unconstitutional, in a landmark ...Read More
Cholera scare on Algeria-France flight
By AFP A sick eight-year-old triggered a cholera scare onboard a flight from the Algerian city of Oran to Perpignan in sou...Read More
