CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Police shocked a 95-year-old woman with a stun gun as she approached them using a walker and carrying a steak knife in an Australian nursing home, sending her to the hospital in critical condition after her head hit...
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Canada's second-largest airline WestJet and its pilots' union say they have reached a last-minute deal, averting a strike on Friday before a holiday weekend in the country. A statement from the Air Line...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A 7.7 magnitude earthquake caused a small tsunami to wash ashore on South Pacific islands Friday. No damage has been reported, and the threat passed in a few hours. Waves 60 centimetres (2 feet) above tide...
LONDON (AP): Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and lying-in-state last year cost Britain’s government an estimated £162 million (around US$200 million), the treasury revealed Thursday. The state funeral for the late monarch, held on September 19, was...
HIROSHIMA (AP): LEADERS OF the world’s most powerful democracies gathered Thursday for Group of Seven (G-7) meetings in Hiroshima, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine high on the agenda for a summit convened in the shadow of the world’s first atomic...
ROME (AP) — A car driven by someone with apparent psychiatric problems rushed through a Vatican gate Thursday evening and sped past Swiss Guards into a palace courtyard before the driver was apprehended by police, the Holy See said. Vatican...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Google, Twitter and Facebook in lawsuits seeking to hold them liable for terrorist attacks, but the justices sidestepped the issue of the federal law that shields...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal grand jury in Puerto Rico indicted 44 people accused in a $1.2 million scheme to illegally obtain pandemic relief funds, authorities said Thursday. The suspects are accused of submitting at...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's army said Thursday that troops have found 49 migrants, including 11 children, who were kidnapped from a bus earlier this week. Defence Secretary General Luis Cresencio Sandoval said 650 police and...
MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — A little girl from Panama born with heart problems died in Border Patrol custody Wednesday, the second death of a child from Latin America in U.S. government custody in two weeks. The 8-year-old girl and her...
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Canada's second-largest airline WestJet has started to cancel flights because its talks with a pilots' union are at an impasse, the carrier said Thursday, jeopardising travel plans for thousands of...
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II's funeral and lying-in-state last year cost Britain's government an estimated 162 million pounds (around US$200 million), the treasury revealed Thursday. The state funeral for the late monarch, held on...
LONDON (AP) — Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that the German lender should have seen evidence of sex trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein when he was a client, according to lawyers for women who...
A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world's biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China. An Associated...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden said there’s “work to do” on the global stage as he headed to Japan on Wednesday to consult with allies on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s assertiveness in the Pacific at the same time that a debt limit...
MEXICO CITY (AP): A busload of about 50 migrants were kidnapped by a gang in northern Mexico in the latest of a series of mass abductions, though nine were later found, Mexico’s president and police said on Wednesday. President Andrés Manuel López...
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — State and federal health officials are warning US residents to cancel planned surgeries in a Mexico border city after five people from Texas who got procedures there came back and developed suspected cases of fungal...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A busload of about 50 migrants were kidnapped by a gang in northern Mexico in the latest of a series of mass abductions, though nine were later found, Mexico's president and police said Wednesday. President Andr...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore on Wednesday hanged another citizen for trafficking cannabis, the second in three weeks, as it clung firmly to the death penalty despite growing calls for the city-state to halt drug-related executions...
NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were involved in a car chase while being followed by photographers following a charity event in New York, the couple's office said Wednesday. The pair, together with Meghan's mother,...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso on Wednesday put an end to impeachment proceedings against him by dissolving the opposition-led National Assembly, which had accused him of embezzlement. The right-wing president, who...
PESHAWAR (AP): A police officer tasked with protecting a private school for girls in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday opened fire at a school bus carrying teachers and students, killing an eight-year-old girl and injuring five others, officials...
CAPE TOWN (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have agreed to separate meetings with a delegation of leaders from six African countries to discuss a possible plan to end the war in Ukraine, South Africa...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves, a staunch anti-monarchist, has defended his decision to attend the coronation of Britain’s King Charles earlier this month, saying it would have been “churlish” of him to not attend the May 6...
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — A one-year-old child died and 23 people were missing and feared dead after a hippopotamus charged into and capsized a canoe on a river in southern Malawi, authorities said Tuesday. The long wooden canoe was carrying 37...
