European leaders faced flak yesterday after choosing the low-profile Belgian premier and a British peer to lead a revamped EU, giving up on an ambition to appoint diplomatic heavy ...
SOUTH KOREA A South Korean model who was a fixture at fashion week in Paris and London has been found hanged in her Paris apartment. Daul Kim, 20, was found dead on Thursday by her boyfriend, who ...
UNITED NATIONS Unicef is urging the world to help the one billion children still deprived of food, shelter, clean water or health care - and the hundreds of millions more threatened by violence - two ...
CUBA US President Barack Obama has answered questions from a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he has no interest in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and ...
PERU A gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, police charged on Thursday, taking it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in ...
SAIPANA gunman went on a rampage on the Pacific resort island of Saipan yesterday, killing at least four people and wounding six, including five Korean tourists. An Asian gunman killed four local people, ...
AUSTRALIAAustralian firefighters battled scores of bush blazes yesterday as record-breaking hot weather sparked "catastrophic" warnings in two states, just months after the country's worst bush ...
EUROPEAN UNIONThe European Union says it finally has the answer to a question long attributed to former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger: who do I call if I want to call Europe? That answer is simple. The US ...
BRITAIN A holidaymaker who strangled his wife in his sleep was released by a British court yesterday after the prosecution withdrew its case. Brian Thomas, 59, of Neath in South Wales, killed his wife ...
LEADERAs the world's only superpower, the United States is accustomed to setting standards of conduct across a range of issues. These include human rights, free trade, currency manipulation and illicit drug ...
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