Italy: More than 100 arrested in Sicilian anti-Mafia operation
Palermo: More than 100 suspected members of a Mafia clan based in the eastern Sicilian city of Catania...
View ArticleWild elephant goes on rampage in Indian village
A wild elephant went on a rampage in a village in India's eastern West Bengal state on Wednesday, damaging around 100...
View ArticleSeven teens rescued from sexual exploitation during Super Bowl, FBI says
Seven teenagers, some as young as 14 years old, were rescued from forced prostitution in the San Francisco Bay Area during Super Bowl week, authorities announced Tuesday. Some of the victims had...
View Article17 arrested in Rebels bikies raids on Central Coast: NSW police
Police have arrested 17 people and seized drugs, cash and weapons in two days of raids on Rebels outlaw motorcycle gang on the Central Coast. Fourteen men and three women were arrested during raids on...
View ArticleSouth China Sea dispute: US, India consider joint patrols, says US official
New Delhi: The United States and India have held talks about conducting joint naval patrols that a US defence official said could include the disputed South China Sea, a move that would likely anger...
View ArticleRepublicans Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina dropping White House bids
Washington: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former business executive Carly Fiorina are ending their campaigns for the 2016 Republican nomination, narrowing the field of rivals facing...
View ArticleDonald Trump 'The Art of the Deal' spoof biopic stars Johnny Depp
Los Angeles: Johnny Depp has played a loopy pirate, a mad hatter and a demon barber. But will he be a convincing Donald Trump? The humour website Funny or Die on Wednesday began streaming a 50-minute...
View ArticleZika: Catholic church urged to rethink abortion stance
Vatican City: A Roman Catholic group has appealed to Pope Francis to allow Church members to "follow their conscience" and use contraception or to let women have abortions to avoid having children with...
View ArticleFive years after nuclear meltdown, no one knows what to do with Fukushima
Futaba: Seen from the road below, the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station looks much as it may have right after the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that caused a triple meltdown here almost...
View ArticleOregon stand-off: FBI moving in on last four occupiers at wildlife refuge
Chicago: US Federal agents have moved in on the last four anti-government militants still holed up at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, the FBI said in a statement. The four protesters...
View ArticleCambodian orphan crusader jailed for child sex abuse
Bangkok: A Cambodian orphanage director who crusaded for years against child sex abuse has been sentenced to three years jail for committing indecent acts on children in his care. The conviction of 46...
View ArticleBreak in cold case: Police arrest former beauty queen's priest in her 1960...
Fifty-six years ago, a young schoolteacher went to church during the Holy Week and never came home. The next day, a few of her possessions were found scattered along the road outside the local Sacred...
View ArticleTurkey won't open border to Syrian refugees
Gaziantep: Turkey has angrily rejected demands that it open its border to tens of thousands of Syrian refugees driven from their homes by relentless Russian airstrikes, saying that to do so would...
View ArticleDirector-General condemns murder of journalist Anabel Flores Salazar in...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 'I condemn the murder of Anabel Flores Salazar,' said the Director-General. 'This crime has deprived people of a...
View ArticleTunisian youth tell broadcasters what they want to see on screen (UNESCO -...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The two-day meeting was full of lively discussions, which began with opening words by Bruno Montariol, Representative...
View ArticleNATO agrees to Aegean refugee mission, says German defence minister
Brussels: NATO has agreed to start a mission in the Aegean Sea to help slow refugee flows and to stop people smugglers, German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday. "It is important...
View ArticleDozens of inmates killed in Topo Chico prison riot in northeast Mexico
Monterrey, Mexico: A battle between rival drug gangs at a prison killed 52 people in the northeastern Mexican city of Monterrey, authorities said on Thursday, days ahead of a planned visit by Pope...
View ArticleSurge of university students to protest this year
This northern autumn, universities across the US were rocked by protests. Students upset over racial issues took over the president's office at Princeton, demanded the resignation of Ithaca College's...
View Article#ImNotKiddingMaddi trends after Hillary Clinton sends email seeking $1 donation
A woman named Maddi has caused nation-wide mirth in the US after posting an email she says she received from Hillary Clinton online. The email was sent after Hillary Clinton came in second behind...
View ArticleFrancois Hollande adds Green party politicians to cabinet to counter...
Paris: French President Francois Hollande appointed a former prime minister and several politicians from so-called Green parties to his government on Thursday in a cabinet shuffle that is expected to...
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