WARSAW, Poland (AP) — European Union leaders meeting in Brussels to stamp their new, ambitious greenhouse gas emissions plan should prepare for unyielding opposition from coal-reliant Poland and some other East European countries who say their developing economies and electricity
The British military’s 13 years in Afghanistan is recounted in a new exhibition opening in London on Thursday, weeks before its combat forces pull out with the country facing an uncertain future. Visitors to “War Story: Afghanistan 2014” at the
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct. 22 (UPI) — A man attempting to take a picture in the background of a Lebanese news interview ended up falling off a dock and into the water while on camera. The man can be seen in
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Billy Butler hit a tiebreaking single, Salvador Perez and Omar Infante drove in two runs each with big hits in a five-run sixth inning, and the Kansas City Royals beat the San Francisco Giants 7-2
Jerusalem police vowed a “zero tolerance” policy towards violence Thursday after a Palestinian rammed his car into a crowd, killing a baby and triggering clashes across the city’s annexed eastern sector. It was the second such deadly incident involving a
LONDON (Reuters) – A talent shortage in Britain’s financial services and technology sectors has pushed salaries in the industry up by 2.6 percent in the last year, ahead of inflation and outpacing sluggish UK wage growth, research showed on Thursday.
Britain’s most notorious police killer Harry Roberts is due to be released after spending more than 45 years in jail, reports said on Thursday. The 78-year-old was imprisoned for life for murdering three unarmed officers in Shepherd’s Bush, London in
BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Syria have killed more than 500 people, mainly Islamic militants, since they began last month, activists said Thursday, as warplanes targeted an oil field in the eastern Deir el-Zour province near Iraq. The
LONDON (AP) — The chairman of Tesco, the world’s second-biggest retailer behind Walmart, has resigned amid an accounting scandal in which the company admitted it had overstated its profits. Richard Broadbent announced his resignation Thursday as the company reported a
During this homecoming season, two very special students were selected Homecoming Queen and King at Dunwoody High School, near Atlanta, Georgia. Hannah Keen and Gus Ashbury, both students with special needs, were overwhelmingly elected by their Dunwoody classmates. When the
DENVER (AP) — Three teenage girls from suburban Denver being investigated for possibly trying to join Islamic State militants in Syria aren’t radicalized jihadis but rather victims of an online predator, a school official said Wednesday. Tustin Amole, a spokesman
(Reuters) – At least 4,877 people have died in the world’s worst recorded outbreak of Ebola, and at least 9,936 cases of the disease had been recorded as of Oct. 19, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, but
BUDUBURAM CAMP, Ghana (AP) — Henry Boley left Liberia to attend a conference in Nigeria just days after his twins were born. Now, weeks later, he can’t get home. Amanda Johnson, a 50-year-old Liberian living in Ghana, awaits her fiance’s
(Reuters) Winnipeg Police say the remains of four infants are discovered in a U-Haul storage locker. Deborah Lutterbeck reports. Police say the remains possibly four infants were discovered in a U-Haul storage locker in Winnipeg, Canada. They said they are
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi army tanks and armored vehicles on Wednesday fought off an advance by Islamic State militants on the town of Amiriya Fallujah, west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, army sources said, part of a multinational effort to
(AFP) South Korea said Wednesday it had dismantled a Christmas tree-shaped tower near the border with North Korea which had previously been used for a seasonal lights show that drew angry protests from the atheist regime in Pyongyang. North Korea
(AFP) Two sunken ships from World War II — a German U-boat and an American merchant vessel — have been found deep in the ocean off the coast of North Carolina, officials said Tuesday. The ships clashed in the Battle
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s former Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski came under fire Tuesday from the prime minister and political opponents over a U.S. magazine interview in which he allegedly said Russia’s president offered Poland the opportunity to jointly carve
(AFP) Syria’s air force has destroyed two of three warplanes reportedly seized by fighters of the Islamic State group in the north of the country, Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi said. The jihadists were reported to have seized the three planes,
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22 (UPI) —Video captured on the Hollywood Walk of Fame shows a fight between Mr. Incredible and Batgirl being broken up by Chewbacca, Where’s Waldo and Freddy Kruger. The footage, captured by production company FilmOn.com, shows performers
(AFP) Sweden’s armed forces chief warned Tuesday it could use force to bring to the surface a suspected Russian mini-submarine its navy has been hunting for days. Battleships, minesweepers, helicopters and more than 200 troops have scoured an area about
Allegations of a sexual abuse cover-up by IRA militants have caused a storm from Belfast to Dublin and drawn comparisons with the Catholic Church, as well as offering a rare glimpse into vigilante policing during the province’s troubled past. The
(Reuters) – Rape and other forms of sexual violence by all sides in South Sudan’s civil war have become so widespread that a 2-year-old child was among the victims, the U.N. special representative on sexual violence in armed conflict said
This article originally appeared in The Daily Beast. Contact tracing–tracking down an Ebola patient’s immediate circle–is doable in the West. But in West Africa, with limited transportation, fuel, and health workers, it’s daunting. “Contact tracing” sounds like something that would
(AFP) — Two people died in a riot in Sierra Leone sparked when health workers struggling to contain the Ebola epidemic tried to take a blood sample from an elderly woman, doctors told AFP on Wednesday. A machete-wielding mob clashed
