BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s deadlocked parliament failed Sunday to overcome the deep divisions hampering the formation of a new government, making no progress on choosing new leaders who could help hold the nation together and confront the Sunni militant blitz
(AFP) Afghanistan’s feuding presidential rivals agreed Saturday to a full audit of every single vote cast in the disputed runoff election, US Secretary of State John Kerry said after two days of frantic negotiations.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Archie Andrews will die taking a bullet for his gay best friend. The famous freckle-faced comic book icon is meeting his demise in Wednesday’s installment of “Life with Archie” when he intervenes in an assassination attempt
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s lower house of parliament on Monday voted to scrap the country’s controversial carbon tax, setting up a final showdown in the Senate as early as Tuesday to decide the scheme’s fate. Abolition of the carbon tax
PAMPLONA Spain (Reuters) – A bull gored two men after breaking away from the pack and chasing them through the streets of Pamplona in the closing run of the San Fermin festival on Monday. For a week in July hundreds
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Another day, another defiant weapons test from North Korea. A day after launching two ballistic missiles from a base near the border with archrival South Korea, Pyongyang on Monday fired a barrage of artillery shells
GIGLIO Italy (Reuters) – Technicians on Monday began a complex operation to refloat and tow away the wreck of the Costa Concordia, two and a half years after the luxury liner capsized off the Italian coast, killing 32 people. The
NARRARI Pakistan (Reuters) – Charities that the United Nations says are linked to militant groups are helping hungry Pakistanis fleeing a recent military offensive as the official number of those seeking aid reached nearly 900,000 on Monday. Bureaucratic mix-ups mean
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell met privately with dozens of governors Sunday as the Obama administration tried to get support from the leaders of states that will host thousands of the Central American
Daily Mail: Gunmen Slaughter 25 Women Branded as Prostitutes in Baghdad After Storming Apartment Building At least 29 people, including 20 women, have been shot dead in Iraq in an apparent attack on a brothel. Gunmen wearing camouflage burst into two
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Reviled by staunch conservatives, the common education standards designed to improve schools and student competitiveness are being modified by some Republican governors, who are pushing back against what they call the federal government’s intrusion into the
Clashes erupted in Paris on Sunday as thousands of people protested against Israel and in support of residents in the Gaza Strip, where a six-day conflict has left 168 Palestinians dead. Several thousand demonstrators walked calmly through the streets of
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is to ask the United Nations to put the state of Palestine under “international protection” in light of the worsening violence in the Gaza Strip, the PLO said Sunday. “President Abbas will present a letter to
China on Sunday urged world powers and Iran “to show flexibility” in talks over the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme, after officials from both sides said big gaps remained in negotiating positions. “We urge all parties to show flexibility and political
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — With two quick touches, Mario Goetze ended Germany’s 24-year wait for another World Cup title. Goetze scored the winning goal in extra time to give Germany a 1-0 victory over Argentina on Sunday in a
Laurie Garrett, writing in Foreign Policy, identifies a dark side to recent advancements in synthetic biology. Massive laboratories, containing bio-engineered superviruses and the worst of the worst human pathogens, are going nearly free of regulation and, as a result, are
Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 will broadcast LIVE from the border from 7PM to 10PM EST. From McAllen, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley, ground zero of the southern border crisis, Breitbart News Executive Chairman will have
Jack Schwartz at The Daily Beast argues in what is surprisingly not a metaphor that the Tea Party is for all intents and purposes a religion – and as such has crossed lines that endanger American democracy: America has long been
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren is quickly becoming a top Democratic fundraiser and campaign powerhouse, hitting the road on behalf of candidates in key races the party will need to win to retain control of the U.S. Senate
(AFP) US actor Tracy Morgan was released from a medical rehabilitation center Saturday after suffering multiple injuries last month, and is suing Walmart, whose truck rear-ended his stretch limousine. The crash on a New Jersey highway killed Morgan’s friend and
SOUTHPORT, England (AP) — Mo Martin hit the best shot of her life, and it made her a major champion Sunday in the Women’s British Open. Martin hit a 3-wood that hit the pin on the par-5 closing hole at
Look! Up in the sky! It’s supermoon! Because our celestial neighbor is relatively close to Earth, these full moons will appear to be unusually large. That distance varies because the moon follows an elliptical orbit. When it’s close and full,
After accusing Republicans of opposing him and President Barack Obama due to “racial animus,” Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday said the “offensive” Washington Redskins name should be changed. “I think the name ought to be changed,” Holder said on
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say “Harry Potter” actor Dave Legeno has died from heatstroke in California’s Death Valley. He was 50. Legeno played the werewolf Fenrir Greyback in three “Harry Potter” films. The brawny British actor also appeared in
Police bailed a 22-year-old man who was arrested this week on suspicion of terrorism offences as he attempted to board a flight to Turkey, a well-travelled route to Syria. The unnamed man was arrested on Wednesday at Luton airport, on
