. PENANG – State Wldlife officials in Penang have reported that a massive python was caught at a Penang Constuction site, saying it could be the...
. . CHICAGO – Prosecutors in Illinois said in a court filing that Former Republican United States House Speaker Dennis Hastert agreed to pay $3.5 million...
. . YANGON – As promised by Myanmars ruling party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, prisons have begun releasing political prisoners. Burmese language media said Friday...
 . . NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Merle Haggard didn’t just write great country songs, he lived them. His real life experiences of poverty as the...
 .  . BEIJING – China has banned most imports of North Korean coal and iron ore, the country’s main exports, in a significant increase in pressure...
. . ANKARA – Syrian women and children trying to escape from civil war and ISIL are being forcibly returned to the country, in direct contravention...
. . WASHINGTON -Â In a landmark decision, the US military has granted a decorated Sikh-American officer a long-term religious accommodation allowing him to continue serving...
. . KUALA LUMPUR – The Wall Street Journal has uncovered reports that Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s bank accounts were used to purchase $15 million...
. NAYPYITAW– Members of Aung San Suu Kyi’s victorious National League for Democracy (NLD) were in tears on Wednesday as Myanmar swore in its first president...
. TAIPEI – An enraged crowd called for justice and the death penalty after Taiwanese suspect Wang Jingyu was arrested for beheading a four-year-old girl in...
 . TOKYO – Police in Japan have detained a 23-year-old man wanted for abducting the girl and holding her captive in his apartment for two years....
. HAGUE, Netherlands – A U.N. court convicted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of genocide and nine other charges Thursday and sentenced him to 40...
 . BRUSSLES – Police are holding six people following a series of raids in Brussels over the attacks on the city’s airport and Metro system. The...
. . WELLINGTON – New Zealand has voted to keep its current flag by a margin of 57 per cent to 43 per cent in a...
. BRUSSELS -Â Belgian police have identified a prime suspect in Tuesday’s Brussels blasts and two suspected suicide bombers, linking them directly to Islamic State militants...
BELGIUM – Explosions rocked Brussels International Airport and a city metro station on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and injuring more than 35, according to...
PYONGYANG – North Korea fired five short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea’s military said, amid heightened tension over...
. HAVANA (AP) — Brushing past profound differences, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro will sit down Monday at Havana’s Palace of the Revolution...
. . BELGIUM – Captured fugitive Salah Abdeslam initially planned to blow himself up outside the Stade de France during the Paris attacks but changed his...
. PYONGYANG – The North Korean Government has sentenced American student Otto F. Warmbier to 15 years of hard labor for subversion on Wednesday after he...