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AP 2017-12-25 12:00:00
Cultural authorities at UNESCO have recognised the artisans of Panama for their distinctive woven hats. No, not those hats; the famed “Panama hat” comes from Ecuador. Panama’s real...
-- 2017-12-25 10:52:49
Asian shares were lower in quiet trading Monday in the few Asian markets open during the Christmas holiday. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index was down less than 0.1 per cent at 22,887.89, while the Shan...
-- 2017-12-25 10:46:49
Japan’s Nikkei share edged lower on Monday, weighed by losses on Wall Street, although movement was confined to a narrow range with many other major markets shut for Christmas. The Nikkei was 0...
-- 2017-12-25 10:38:01
Some 200 skiers were stranded in chair lifts after a gondola broke down at a resort in the French Alps, said French authorities. Rescue operations were under way and no injuries were reported. An o...
-- 2017-12-25 04:06:45
Two Turkish soldiers have been killed in Turkey’s southeastern province of Hakkari in an attack by Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) militants, the military said on Monday. Another soldier was wounde...
-- 2017-12-25 02:40:34
South Sudan’s army clashed with rebels in an oil-producing region, both sides claimed, shattering a ceasefire hours after it came into effect. Both sides accused the other of starting the fight...
-- 2017-12-25 02:27:14
Pop star Taylor Swift's fans revealed on 'The Swift Life' app that the singer helped her fan purchase a house after she was homeless for eight months during her pregnancy. Stephanie Waw, shared the h...
-- 2017-12-25 02:08:22
Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardoned former authoritarian leader Alberto Fujimori late on Sunday, triggering Christmas Eve street clashes as protesters denounced the decision as part of a...
-- 2017-12-25 01:53:20
China stocks slipped on Monday, with the start-up board ChiNext posting its biggest decline in three weeks as expectations of tighter monetary polices stirred worries about market liquidity. At the c...
-- 2017-12-25 01:39:08
A federal judge ruled that the US military must provide legal counsel to an American citizen who was picked up months ago on the Syrian battlefield and accused of fighting with Islamic State militants...
-- 2017-12-25 01:27:53
Chad’s President Idriss Deby has appointed Abdoulaye Sabre Fadoul as minister of finance and also named new economy, foreign affairs, security and justice ministers, a presidential decree showed...
-- 2017-12-24 12:00:00
A federal judge in Seattle partially blocked US President Donald Trump’s newest restrictions on refugee admissions on Saturday, the latest legal defeat for his efforts to curtail immigration and...
-- 2017-12-24 12:00:00
Property market in Beijing held steady in November with second-hand home prices edging for seven consecutive months, according to a government report. The statement was included in a report on the ec...
-- 2017-12-24 12:00:00
Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed retired army boss Constantino Chiwenga and veteran politician Kembo Mohadi as the ruling party’s vice presidents. The appointments pave...
-- 2017-12-24 12:00:00
Jimmy Kimmel has released the first promo for the upcoming Oscar ceremony and the TV host has asked for good ratings and a "jetpack" from the fans. This will be the second time Kimmel will be hosting...
-- 2017-12-24 10:57:20
Venezuela has expelled the Brazilian ambassador to Caracas, Ruy Pereira, and Canadian charge d'affaires Craib Kowalik. The move was announced by the head of Venezuela's powerful Constituent Assembly...
-- 2017-12-24 02:04:25
Canada's special envoy on the Rohingya crisis Bob Rae has said it would be 'unconscionable' for the member states of the UN to sanction a repatriation that was forced, or that did not include basic pr...
-- 2017-12-24 01:40:28
10 people have been killed and 17 others wounded when two speeding buses coming from the rear side collided and crashed into a van on a highway in central Pakistan, police say. Local police Chief Ar...
-- 2017-12-24 01:13:03
The brains of adolescents react more responsively to receiving rewards, according to a study that shows it can make learning easier. "The adolescent brain is very sensitive to feedback. That makes ad...
-- 2017-12-23 12:00:00
At least 32 people have been killed and 7 others injured after a bus carrying passengers veered off a bridge and plunged into a river in Sawai Madhopur district of the northern Indian state Rajasthan...
-- 2017-12-23 12:00:00
A baby girl has been attacked in her room by a raccoon in the US city of Philadelphia, her family says. Four-month-old Jourini Black suffered claw marks to the face when the raccoon attacked her whil...
Reuters 2017-12-23 11:54:52
People who take a certain water pill prescribed to control fluid retention and treat high blood pressure may be more likely to get skin cancer than other individuals, a Danish study suggests. While t...
-- 2017-12-23 11:28:17
A South Sudanese rebel group accused government troops of attacking their base only a day after the parties signed a ceasefire in a four-year war that has killed tens of thousands of people. The ceas...
-- 2017-12-23 11:05:32
Hackers tried to steal 55 million roubles ($940,000) from Russian state bank Globex using the SWIFT international payments messaging system, the bank said on Thursday, the latest in a string of attemp...
BBC 2017-12-23 10:50:33
Two class action lawsuits have been launched against Apple in the US following the tech giant's admission that it slows down older models of the iPhone as they age. Apple has said that it did this to...
-- 2017-12-23 10:49:20
French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed European reforms will play a big role in talks between German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives to form a government with the center-left...
-- 2017-12-23 10:36:46
Major indexes of US stocks dipped on Friday in low trading volume before the holiday weekend as several blue-chip stocks slipped, including Nike. Nike Inc shares fell 2.3 per cent after the company f...
-- 2017-12-23 10:10:00
A former US marine has been arrested by the FBI on suspicion of planning a terror attack in the popular tourist attraction San Francisco on Christmas day. Everitt Aaron Jameson, 25, was held after al...
-- 2017-12-23 03:28:19
More than 70 firefighters were tackling a blaze at London Zoo on Saturday after a fierce fire broke out at the attraction’s cafe and shop, the fire brigade said. There were no reports of any a...
-- 2017-12-23 02:32:13
Turkey’s parliament has approved the country’s 2018 budget, which includes increased spending on defence and projects a rise in the fiscal deficit to 65.9 billion lira ($17.28 billion)....
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