A teenage German-Iranian gunman who killed nine people in a shooting spree at a busy Munich shopping center and then committed suicide had likely acted alone, German police said yesterday. The third attack on civilians in Europe…
HILLARY Clinton tapped Tim Kaine, a popular Spanish-speaking senator from the swing state of Virginia, to be her running mate in the White House showdown against Donald Trump. The pick comes three days before the start of…
Nice, France — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Saturday for an attack in which a Tunisian drove a truck through a crowd in Nice, killing 84, prompting hard questions in France over security failures. In…
Kuwait City — Kuwait has set a minimum wage for its hundreds of thousands of mostly Asian domestic staff, the first country in the Gulf to do so, local media reported on Thursday. A decree issued by…
Beijing – A tropical storm in China left six people dead and at least eight more missing, reports said, after it lashed Taiwan with typhoon-grade winds and rain. Supertyphoon Nepartak brought chaos to Taiwan Friday, forcing more…
A Spanish bullfighter was gored to death in front of horrified spectators at a corrida on Saturday, the first to be killed in the ring in more than three decades. Victor Barrio, 29, was struck in the…
Super Typhoon Nepartak brought chaos to Taiwan on Friday, forcing more than 15,000 people to flee their homes as the strongest winds in over a century lashed part of the island. The season’s first major storm hit…
Baghdad, Iraq — Islamic State group extremists attacked a Shiite shrine north of Baghdad, killing 30 people, just days after one of the deadliest ever bombings in the country, a security spokesman said Friday. The overnight attack…
Miami – NASA celebrated a key triumph on Tuesday as its $1.1-billion Juno spacecraft successfully slipped into orbit around Jupiter on a mission to probe the origin of the solar system. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,…
Paris – The European Union’s top economic official on Tuesday criticized a British proposal to slash corporate tax to less than 15 percent following the nation’s vote to abandon the bloc. Britain’s finance minister George Osborne said…
BANGKOK — Komol Panyasophonlert struggles to string an English sentence together, but the 31-year-old Thai computer programmer is still hoping to be crowned champion of the wordsmith’s favorite boardgame, Scrabble, this week. Komol, the world’s No. 3,…
PARIS – Paris’ most recognizable monument will remain closed to visitors on Tuesday as Eiffel Tower staff joined strike action against controversial labor reforms. “Since there aren’t enough staff present to open the monument under safe and…
