BEIJING, China -- China on Saturday accused the United States of being an "empire of lies", hitting back after a State Department report claimed Beijing spends billions of dollars to spread disinformation globally. The report, released Thursday by the US State Department's Global Engagement Center,...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Several people were injured after two trains, one of which was the storied Flying Scotsman, collided at Aviemore railway station in the Highlands of Scotland on Friday, police said. The Flying Scotsman The crash happened on the Strathspey Railway, a heritage railway...
LOS ANGELES, United States - A quarter of a century after Tupac Shakur was gunned down in a gang feud in Las Vegas, a man was charged Friday with his murder, a killing that came to symbolize the violence of gangsta rap as it surged into the mainstream. Duane "Keffe D" Davis Duane "Keffe D"...
BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was awake and recovering from hip surgery on Friday, which his doctor said went off without a hitch. Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva "The surgery went without complications, the president is awake, going to...
WASHINGTON, United States - Another 7,000 members of the biggest US automobile workers' union on Friday joined its already major strike against the country's "Big Three" Detroit car manufacturers. (Photo from AFP) The latest walkouts leave a total of some 25,000 workers on strike in 21 states...
SYDNEY, Australia - A whale struck a boat off the coast of eastern Australia on Saturday morning, killing one man and injuring another. The two men were on the boat when it was hit and flipped at about 6 am local time (2000 GMT) in the waters off La Perouse, 14 kilometres (nine miles)...
Fukushima Nuclear Plant in Japan (Photo from AFP) TOKYO, Japan -- Japan will begin releasing a second batch of wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant from next week, its operator has said, an exercise that angered China and others when it began in August. On August 24, Japan began...
A woman wearing a face mask is seen on a street in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Dec. 16, 2022. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua) LOS ANGELES, United States -- SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, can directly infect the arteries of the heart and cause the fatty plaque inside arteries to...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands -- A gunman dressed in combat gear and wearing a bulletproof vest went on a shooting rampage at a house and a hospital in Rotterdam Thursday, killing a 14-year-old girl, her mother, and a teacher. Dutch police said they were still investigating the motive for the twin attacks...
MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- Six teenagers kidnapped in Mexico's violence-racked northern state of Zacatecas are confirmed dead, authorities said Thursday -- the latest abduction of youths to shock the Latin American nation. Six bodies found the previous day have been identified as those of the...
Asylum seekers walk along the road where thousands are living with out shelter and exposed to the elements following the burning down of their camp, near the Kara Tepe camp on the island of Lesbos on September 13, 2020. AFP / LOUISA GOULIAMAKI BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The European Union was poised...
Flowers are pictured near the scene of the murder of 15-year-old Elianne Andam, cose to the Whitgift Centre on Wellesley Road in Croydon, south London, on September 28, 2023. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) LONDON, United Kingdom -- A judge in western England on Thursday sentenced a teenager who...
