. . LAS VEGAS – A fire on a British Airways plane erupted in Las Vegas on Tuesday when smoke and flames engulfed the aircraft as...
. . PARIS – French President Francois Hollande warned on Tuesday that it would be a mistake for Europe to take in all refugees persecuted by...
. . YANGON – Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy Myanmar’s opposition leader kicked off campaigning for Myanmar’s historic November 8 general election with...
. . VATICAN CITY – The Vatican announced new procedures on Tuesday to make it easier for Roman Catholics to obtain marriage annulments, a change intended...
. . BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany would pledged billions in new funds for refugees on Monday as tens of thousands of people...
. . PHNOM PENH – One of four Australia’s refugees, who resettled in Cambodia as part of a 43-million-U.S. dollar resettlement deal between Australia and Cambodia,...
. . VATICAN – Pope Francis today called on every Catholic parish in Europe to take in a refugee family, saying the Vatican’s two parishes would...
. . AUSTRIA – Thousands of migrants were still streaming across Hungary’s border with Austria on Sunday morning, more than 24 hours after German and Austrian...
. . LONDON – Queen Elizabeth II is expected to make a rare public speech thanking her subjects for their support as she celebrates being the...
. . MOSCOW – President Putin has sent a military advance team to Syria and is taking other steps the United States fears may signal that...
. . SIDNEY – Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott has urged Europe to follow Australia’s hardline asylum policy and begin “turning back boats” as a way...
. . KUALA LAMPUR – At a three-day International Anti-Corruption Conference organized by Transparency International, organizers called for Prime Minister Najib Razak to come clean on...
. . NEW YORK – The decline of murders in American cities has started to take a deadly upward turn as cities across the United Sates...
. . TOKYO – Former “Flipper” trainer Ric O’Barry was arrested for not carrying his passport while in Japan to protest a dolphin hunt due to...
. . KUALA LUMPUR – Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia’s Former leader, joined anti-government protesters for a second day on Sunday, calling for the “people’s power” movement to...
. . ROME – Former Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, who would have been the first high-level prelate to stand before a Vatican tribunal on charges of child...
. . AUSTRIA – Austrian Police have made a grisly discovery of dozens of migrants found dead in the 7.5-tonne lorry stopped on the A4 motorway...
. . MANILA – The United States navy has plans to increase the number of military and humanitarian drills it conducts in the Asia-Pacific as part...
. . NEW ORLEANS – A Louisiana state trooper was shot in the head and critically injured Sunday afternoon during a struggle with a man whose...
. . PARIS – A Briton and three Americans who overpowered a gunman on a high-speed train, giving the four men the country’s highest honor in...